Judge — March 8, 1884 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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Sa Py RNAI BITS SFT T week the doors of the Metropolitan | House will again be thrown open to | and if Mr. Abbey does half as | much as he promises to do, there will t visible fulling off ‘n the theatrical audiences. Lent is bad enough, but Lent and Grand Opera combined sufficient to make the slowest managerial heart quake within him. ‘The operatic repertoire for the firs kK reads well. Monday night * Hamlet? with and Sembrich the highly vanni” with § Friday. tha” with ich and ‘Trebelli, and for the Saturday matine Five dollars seems a good deal to pay for | an orchestra ch: but when one takes into consideration the fact that he r two | or three prima donnas and aumerous tenors for this amount it looks che » Theave age American likes to get the worth of | money, and if he st a comfortable s and hear the fem: rhle the of $2.50 a head, h nite content; that is, if music puts us in mind of some of Miss Mary Blickbarn’s enc with the noble red man at the Cosmopolitan aty that those who witnessed | formances wi ily a positive fac nnected with was the untimely death of poor $ who scems in some mysterious w been associated with the play and the actr The fair Modjeska has closed her engas ment at the Star and Mrs. Langtry Ines last reluctantly withdrawn he remarkable posters from our mit We thonght nothing in the cal advertising could ev but when ) for the dent with the g Royal Coat of Arms al a c were somewhat ck. ‘The Prince of Wales’ crest at the head of a play-bill, certainly presented a peculiar appear but when we came near enough to read the time honored proverb inscribed thereon‘ Moni suit qui mal y pense” we began to think it might not be quite so inap- propriate after all. McCullough now holds forth at The Star and the horrors of ** jezda” fade from our minds as we witness the terrors of “ Virginius.” Heaven be praised, there is still left in New York something to langh at and enjoy. but the little Comedy Theatre is not half large enough to hold the people that to enjoy “Confusion,” Mr. Joseph Derrick, without new material, other than alive pug and a flesh and blood buby, has succeeded in writing a most clever and amusing comedy, If one wishes to langh and grow fat, he had better visit The Comedy ‘Theatre with- iW surpri Three Sheets” THE JUDGE. out delay. ‘The farce called * Distinguished Foreigners,” which precedes the coniedy, is an extravagant conceit by Mr. Win, Gilly and init Mr, Dixey and Miss Sadie Martinot give ussome clever impersonations, and are greet- | ed with rears of merriment. It isa pity, as far as dollars are concerned, that Mr. Stetson did not delay his produc tion of The Princess Ida?” dl give the * Confusion? company a longer run at the Fifth Avenne The andi to listen to Gilbert and Sullivan’s new opera are not as large as they were at first, but the piece “in other res nite well.” or truthful items commend us tothe out of town correspondent! Apropos of which we quote the following extract from a New York letter to the incisco Argonaut: n begins a bold flight for prosper- < first cousin to President Arthur. seems to think that this ought to carry her upto th topmost pinnacle of fame in the theatre, but doesn't pay $1.50 to x« Arthurs ti ations, T think it that Miss Herndon’s relatioi what caused her to be e Madison Square Theatre.” Withont going into particulars re Miss Herndon’s pedigree, we beg Te: state, that however much’ she may deplore the unwholesome condition of the country, she has never felt called upon to undertake the onerous duty of * scouri ” but has been resting at home most of the se that instead of playing “Mazel Kirke,” “Esmeralda” or any of the pieces that go to make up the somewhat limited repertoire | of the Madison Square, she will soon appear in a new play she has recently accepted from the hands of Messrs. Jessop and Gill. Mr. and Mrs. Nat. Goodwin are amusing | themselves and their audiences at the Four- teenth Street ‘Theatre in a new comedy called “Warranted” and in a. burlesque entitled ‘Those Bells.” In this last the redoubtable Nat rivals the impressible Dixey in his impersonation of a famous actor. Robson & Crane in ‘Sharps and Flats” have succeeded Raymond at the Grand Opera House, but it is a self-evident fact that the + | The Two Dromios ” are sadly in need of a new play. “ Lady Clare” at Wallack’s, ‘¢ The Coun- try Girl” at Daly’s and “ Separation ” at the Union Square still hold the boards. The Theatrical Alphabet. SPECIALLY COMPILED FOR THE JUDGE. A is the Author who writes us the p B the Box office for gatherin Cis the Critic, who’ D is the Deadhead who is the Evening the play F is the G is the Greenroom, where 11 is the Hero,— some call hi Lis the ingenwe, pretty, well di J is the Jealousy of all the rest; K fs the Risses—mere shams of the stage, L, Leading Lady—but don't ask her M is the Manager, looking so wise, Newspaper buys: 0 is the Orchestra, as you may guess, an undoubted su nds in a duel ssity cruel; awkward and thin, 'T is the Ticket on which you get in; where poor folks ascend, who's foiled in the end; | W the Waits, when m out to smoke, | X is the Xylophone—wish it was broke; Yist ing of those who are bored, A Pointer. “So you want a situation on the road as conduc! aid the superintendent, of his fin, together. sir,” replied the applicant. Now suppose you would run your train | into another, kill three or four hundred pe: ple, and block up the road for a da What would be your course?” | “Td hurry back to the city and gell ten | thousand shares of the stock, short.” | “Very good,” replied the superintendent. | But I'm afraid there is no vacancy. You'd e to strike down two-thirds of your | receipts to put up for margins; but the rest of your scheme strikes me as being worth eximining. The day after you hear of a holocaust on this line, drop in and see me. If a brakeman happens to be killed ll think | you over.”—Drake's Traveler's Magazine, “Hr stood six feet two, in his stockings, and every inch a man,” says an exchange. I’m! That is seventy-four inches; ‘every inch a man,” would make seventy-four men. ‘This must be the same identical customer who was a ‘host in himself.” comicbooks.com