Judge — September 15, 1883 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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pee, even more noteworth n that of the E dicate, marks the arrival of the early season | of 1883-84. ‘The much-vaunted and wide- | ly ‘ * has sunk into the ob predestined. ‘This is | n have surprised none: cept, perhaps. Miss Prescott and Mr. Ox Wilde. The play, or rhapsody, or series of essays—eall it what you. will—was wholly | destitute of dramatic merit, or even of liter. | ary value, and its one week of existence was long enough to ¢ discriminating public of the Prescott has paid $10,000 for tl starring in Oscar's play, havin as many another silly woman I mistaking notoriety for fame, and thinking that because her author profe to hav ome knowledge of the sun-flower, he wi equally an authority on the art dramatic Well, she has paid for her mistake, and. she would have more of our symp: if the money that she had thus { 1 ac quired in any other way. Howe as it was probably the fruits of a verdict ina re- cent not very savory libel suit, we will limit | our commiseration to the adage, “light | come, light gone,” and let the experience of Marie Prescott with Oscar Wilde go to swell the catalogue of American money wasted on bad foreign plays. E have fi merrily. he San Francjsco Minstrels, when they opened the doors of their cosy little house on Broadway, last w were greeted with a perfect ovation, and though doubtless many of the auditors remem poor Charlie Backus with a s was fast and furious, and there tothe applause. ‘Thus are our place very efficiently and very rapidly. contains no one who cannot b that is fortunate, for we are losing friends every day, and the memory of every decade is only a graveyard thickly set with tomb- stones. Ah, well! Carpe diem! ‘The pre: ent and the future absorb all our interest. Let the dead past bury its dead. “ Exce exe nvince a | ct. Miss privilege of | een misled, s been, into r” has proved phenomenally su cessful. It is one of the most sumptuous and lavish spectacles this city has ever see nd.the managers are reapin: Iden har- vest. In its general scope and plan itn sembles most other proc ions of the same nature, and many of th might well belong to the Black Cr ‘ White Fawn, as to prgeous 8 of calcium profusion of ballet girls in and shimmering gauze; but it " hand y splendid, as well as very pretty and tasteful, and proves an unfailing attraction to gilded youth and bald-headed age. It is not the drama, but during the early season it is a very satisfactory and efli- i stitute therefor. to the here is the bril- same skirts all very nervy: the nd lime lig th brief span | t THE JUDGE. Resid velsior at Niblo’s, and the Min- strels, we have quite a goodly array of the- atres alread vopen, and the amusement-se¢ er has no lack of variety to choose from, Dalvs, with ++ ID is doing a moderate bus contin and at the Madison Squ jah stro lazily through his appoi And next week the Standard swin into li with the Merry Duche Barrett at the Star well, with Frane the produc: | tion is hand: rtant one. | Whatever may be Its actor, he generally contrives t vorted, and the tow! ensemble of Franc Iaves littl to be desirec ed scenes. me and” imy Mr. Barrett's Music for the Million. 1 Daniel F. * My sole object, the great organ builder, in speakit exceedingly low price at which he his new 23-stop organs, ‘is to let the pub- lic know what kind of work Ido, Y of the instrument is but for the sake of advertising Tam s this style at $49.73, which is absolutely cost of the material and work upon the or- the | ntend t he wa hold ont th induce- limited time another column | ny offers and sell at the | ments lon in advertisement in expires, withdraw original price ty are s manufactured by M acknowledged to be wherever atisfaction, yor Beat- superior instru- al always PATENTED AGE EL! : A PAC ch one con gE : Abo o TIN: LOZENGE FIEND, A Reminiscence.) Cheap Living. HOW HE MANAGES TO BRCOMD He tion to referen table ts the best room, makes no objec- rnishes the most satisfactory cepts the seat of honor at the ted to sweetbreads and tender- loin steaks for breakfast, while the ten-dollar boarder who oceupies the hall-room in the attic looks with longing eyes on these deli- so lavishly furnished the new boarder, and chews the tough end of the steak with t plainly written upon his countenance to ask for a bit of the tender- loin, : nt pay tenderloin prices, wo week landlady has thrice presented | head at her ta- ble thrice a) til ts—when is tre | while a flattere | who will b lot at the end of the third week he fails to ppear in his accustomed seat at the bounti- ful repast » landlady looks slightly un- easy; she fears he may be ill; she gently taps at the of his apartment: no She tries the knob; itis locked. — Her key opens it, The wardr high-priced boarder has disappe a remembrancer an empty thus lives cheaply and w addens the heart keeper on the town—then, presto! el + leaving iy trunk, He |; for three weeks me other boarding- pposite side of the nge. nse A Butler Boom. A Sew journal has just 1 ance, | the tith Paper, and the seribed as th ule its appear- of Father Columbia's ritial number is further de Butler Boom Double Shee ait of Governor Butler wear ornaments th ge. But we do not think the Governor will be the Democratic candidate for President in ISS4. or in any oth ar this century. He is a clever politic no doubt, and has performed valuable public service since he broke with the Republicans ; but the man nominated in 1884, will more probably be : f Indiana, New York, or The Democrats are nominate a Y chusetts man. Serne—Tewksbury Almshou Director to subordinate :—Mere, you skin- flint! ° Sub,—Mistaken in my occupation; I skin Director, discovering paper in sub.’s pock- et, pulls it out and examines it.—How, sir, came this detestable sheet in your pocket?” Sub.—It must have been put there by lively corpse that I failed to. strap down ‘be- fore skinning. 'T act is, I didn't know it was there till this minute. ‘They get frisky wont election time, I’ve he ° Director, examini is Columbia's Paper—The Butler Boom Double Sheet!” (‘To subordinate)—Just one of that Beast Butler's tricks to get the Presidential nomination for 1884. He has commenced carly, and will get the vote of every inmate of the almshouse, dead or alive, if we don’t watch ele Why, sir, the principles this paper avows, will, if carried out, bring de- struction not only to this renowned and char- itable institution, but to every nected with it. . and skin ‘em fast. this office flicer con- sir. I'll strap ‘em down, A Incrative business like ny low-lived Joxgets Minter city where a poet may seck and fir ial ears, Most any town in the w Jand would snit him. Donkeys are uni sally used as beasts of burden in the Ei ald ‘is ee ston Globe believes that Governor lected. That's nothing. at out a man who feels abs he subject, and his name Butler. an be re jamin 7 Mars. 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