Judge — May 24, 1884 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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| of the cast have “Bree Bearp,” with Emma Carson, Irene Perry, Fanny Rice and Pauline Hall, doing a good business at the Bijou, This too, in the face of Mr. Bone’ recent lecture at the Madison Square, spite of his anathema upon burlesque. “That buffoonery which is the blasphemy of art, and which hag crept into high p seems to pay pretty well now-a-days, and as most of the actors and actresses of our ac- quaintance do their work for the dollars and cents they can earn, we are afraid that the | timely warning of the ancient Mr. B. will not be duly heeded. Little Miss Perry, life” from the M “Pop” Company, is the prettiest unm: le in the cast, and manages to bring a | number of dudes to her twinkling feet and the box office every night. “Blue Beard” ought to run well on into the summer. In fact, the costumes (if such small attempts at covering the human frame can be called costumes at all) are suggestive | of extremely hot weather, and cause the mind of Tue JupGE to revert to the days when Lydia ‘Thompson revealed herself as the principal partner of the man of many wives. This burlesque is the work of Mr, and is said to have been an adapta ch’s ‘* Barbe Bleu.” Had we not s fact in some newspaper we should r have suspected it. We should be pl rault’s and in aped “ with her to learn what part or parts of “Barbe Bleu” Mr, Farnie is | supposed tohave adapted. Certainly neither | the text nor the mu: That he has perverted certain parts of | Offenbach’s opera bouffe we are willin, admit, but we fail to see th ptation. “La Vie” w and words and ‘ Blue Beard” ot much better, but the girls in the latter opera are much more attractive than those that pl in the former, and for that reason the pi is successful. ‘or any one that likes thi sort of a thing, this is the sort of a thing they like.” At The Star Theatre, ‘The New York” continues to beat ina feeble manner. Mr. Robert Ciriftin Morris may thank his lucky stars that his piece was produced | under such able management and with so strong a cast. Had it been given otherwise it would have been damned from the very first, the energy and attractiveness of some of the actors and | the skill of the scene painter and machinist being all that saved it. ‘The play is in six a In the first act | Mr. Gerald Eyre for no apparent reason murders a man in front of a church, on Christmas Eve. ‘The next five acts are given up to finding the murderer, and during this | time the audience is treated to scenes at Police Headquarters, the Tombs, a view of the Elevated Rail Road at Ninth avenue and Pulse of ewhat | dies then | its to | sa confused jumble of songs | * THE JUDGE. ‘ifty-third street, and to Trinity church- vard by moonlight. What the Elevated R. R. street and Ninth avenue to do with the piece, and why Mr. Gerald Eyre should be in that particular locality at 11.30 p. 4. does not transpire. Presumably to give the ma- chinist a chance to show what he can do in the **L” road busines: In the last act, as a matter of course, the murderer is discovered and is captured in ‘Trinity churchyard at midnight, where most nveniently mbled to be on hand for the denouement. Detectives suddenly pop up from tombstones. Mr. Eyre is shot by s the gallows is cheated of its dues, and there to slow music. Miss Caroline Hill supports him in this extremity, which is very kind of her, axaho seems to have no legal connection with the murderer; and when at this critical point she is accused by je detective in green plush, pink sutin and a parasol, of being the Queen of the she doesn’t deny the soft impeachment, but declares she will die game, or words to that eff nd the curtain falls. orge Clarke, as Inspector Barnes, has little to do, except to walk about’ the stage and smoke cigars, but we dare say this is true to life, and Mr. Clarke certainly smokes very well. rald Eyre and Caroline Hill do the best they can with the parts assigned them, and Ada Deaves exhibits several astonishing cos- tumes as a female detective. ‘The story 18 incoherent, the dialogue very Fifty-third behind ne one, nd he | weak, but ‘the sets are very fine and well | worth seein, Mond ment a On Miss Lizzie Evans began an engag Tony Pastor’s, in “ Fogg’s Ferry.” ‘This piece was brought before the New York public some two or three years ago by Minnie Maddern, and it would have been much better for Miss Maddern if she had never given up the play. Since she abandoned it she has met with poor suc ‘There is nothing remarkable about the pie in fact, it is deetdedly common place, but the part of Chip Maddern ad- and Miss just as good in her predec Miss Evans has than Miss Maddern, and her attractive part of the perform- more voic Ferry ” will doubtless do a gool business, Harrison and Gour! y have skipped from the Fifth Avenue Th They have fin- ished a most successful engagement here, but it turns out that ‘‘ Skipped by the Light of the Moon” is an absolute steal from Mr. Sim’s “The Gav City” now being played in London, and Mr. Sims proposes to make things lively for M rison and Gour- lay. In short, he proposes to make them skip more lively than eve The ¢ nd Opera House, which seems always to doa good business, delighted the West Siders with * Lady Clare” last week This piece, produced with the original, powerful cast, and all the attention to detail which marked the original production at Wallack’s, has proved a strong attraction. What Spoilt the Feast. Oystens on the See the bill « Tenderloin steak. du alf shell— fare— as well, rich and rare. Butter on the side dish, Crackers on the p! Frizzled sweet pot: Better never ate. Water cress in s: Radishes a few, Apple pie to follow, Pears andl raisins too flee, a mild cigar; banquet ng or czar? jacds, Wont there be a slaughter On the food to-nig A cockroach in the water!!! Gone my appetite eowiy v, stems The Fastest Time on Record. ‘Te Oregon, of the Guion line, made the i days 10 hours and 8 minute: can beat that all to pieces. We made the run over (our’s was a bee line) in 4 minutes 59 and 1-3 seconds—from our house to the nearest piece of woods—when the otticer came after us with a warrant for our arrest the other d Wiere was Comstock ?—The foot-line of one of Barnum’s circulars contained the startling intelligence that over one hundred loose animals would be seen in the street! A nun of shad, b— tween two Quakers. -A foot race be- comicbooks.com