Judge — August 9, 1884 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE. “May Brossom,” is doing so well at the Madison Square that the management have decided not to remove it from the stage for some time to come. “Called Back” will therefore be given at tho Fifth Avenue Theatre. Mr. Mantell, Miss Milward, Miss Burroughs, Mr. Flock- ton, and Mr. William Ferguson will proba- bly'be in the cast. Great preparations are being made for its production and Mr. Stetson and the Froh- mans have great expectations concerning it. Mr. Boucicault saw this drama in London and gets it down as a gloomy, uncomfortable play. Nevertheless it has been successful enough to be burlesqued, and ‘Crawled Back,” and the ‘ Scalded Back,” are di- viding the honors (?) between them. Speaking of burlesque reminds us that Rice and Dixey’s Burlesque Co. have made a big hit in Chicago in Mr. William Gill’s “ Adonis.” Harry Dixey, Vernona Jarbeau, and others too numerous to mention are in the cast, and Jarbeau always gets an encore for a jolly little French song, and Jennie Reif- farth has also made a big success out of her part in the piece. Chicago has also been treated to a new sensational melodrama called ‘‘ Shadows of a Great City,” which drama will shortly be roduced here at the Fourteenth Street heatre. Joe Jefferson is said to be backing the enterprise. ‘The play, written by L. R. Shewell, seems to have been more successful in Chicago than it was in Boston. It is of the ‘Lights 0’ London” order and has a fairly good cast. ‘This is the synopsisas fur- nished by the programme: Act I.—Scene 1. Pawnbroker’s shop, near Cath- erine Market, New York. The shadows begin to fall. Act Il.—Scene 1. Blackwell's Island. The con y. The compact. A_ benevolent Biddy. The pauper ward. The dying mother. The shadows are lifting. Act III.—Boat house on Harlem River. The recognition, Impending evil. The shadows are gathering again. Act 1¢ —The boat house, The shadows are deepening into gloom. Act V.—The banker's mansion. Theclouds drift by and the shadows are dispersed. Between the first and second acts a supposed lapse of two months. Between the second and third acts, fifteen years. Fourth act, the next morning. tween the fourth and fifth acts, one month. The principal characters are represented by Fred Paulding, George Edeson, O. H. Barr, Adele Belgarde (who says she is not going to marry Salyini), Helen Tracy, and Annie Yeamans (who also says she isn’t going to be married). In ‘‘ Moths,” which has been doing a good business at the Grand Opera House in the same city, the characters seem to have changed hands all around. Osmond Tearle and Charles Glenny seem to have swapped the parts of Lord Jura and Raphael de Coreze. Enid Leslie is now Fuschia Leach, and Sophie Eyre is Vere. Even Caroline Hill ia no longer Lady Dolly and that fond HOW TO TELL THE MONTH OF THE YEAR HY THE SIZE OF THE ICE. and anxious mother is enacted by Miss Flora | Livingston, “‘An Adamless Eden,” and ‘ Fantine” are occupying the attention of the Hubites. If a full cast of popular favorites can make any play a success, then ‘ Fantine” ought to make a big hit. John Howson, Ellis Ryse, W. H. Fitzgerald, Madeleine Lucette, Louise Paullin, and Elma Dolaro have plenty to do, and do it well, but for all that there seems to be a difference of opinion as to the merits of Mr. Wolf’s adaptation. A few of our own theatres are already be- ginning to present a somewhat animated appearance. Niblo’s is to open the 18th with a specta- cular piece called ‘The Seven Ravens.” There is a sort of story connected with ‘ The Seven Ravens,” and Emma Carson, Pauline Hall, James Piggott, and Gus Levick will endeavor to elucidate the subject. On the same date the Grand Opera House will produce ‘* The White Slave,” and saat Miner will open the People’s Theatre with “The Silver King.” Minnie Madern will begin a season at the New Park on the 11th of August, and Der- rick’s comedy will be ready for Wallack’s as previously acucdiiced Mile anybody can be found to play the principal part. It is said that Nat Goodwin was offered a part in this piece, as he was passing through New York a while ago, but declined to accept. The fact is, Nat was in a hurry to get home to his wife Eliza Weathersby. His bad luck over his little games with Morris in the far west made him tired and homesic! Kate Forsyth has signed with Tillotson for four years, and will soon appear at the Union Square in Tillotson’s play of “Lyn- wood,” which, notwithstanding Mr. ‘T.’s assertions to the contrary, was not a success in San Francisco. A youxe man who was peripatetic Went to seo Lulu Hurst **the magnetic,” But she whacked his patella With her vicious umbrella, And his case now is truly pathetic. Colloquy at a Ward-Meeting. Artexvus his ghost—“ Fair coz, where be the funds; and why is this thus?” Ferdinand—“ Damfino.” Way General Grant should have staid in the country,—Because ho found glory on many a field; in the street, nothing but mud. Loaic as 1s Lootc. One of Blaine’s an- cestors was a Catholic, therefore no Catholic ought to be President of the United States. But one of Cleveland’s grandmothers (it has lately been discovered) was a woman, there- fore no woman can be President of the United States, Mixed Language for Pious Tom. Not by Ruer Hare ) Wren I wish t And my language is clear— ‘That for ways that are pert, | And for tricks t ‘The Christian mud-man is peculiar— Which the proof I would furnish right here. Tor, Nast is his name, And I cannot de In regard to the same What the name might imply. “Twould sound “off” in rhymes, but we get It, small letter, y. sert— are queer, | And the bad people swore ‘That poor Tom was likewise: | For he passed # lone band to George William In a way men are wont to despise. | Which we had a big game, And they both took a hand: It was bluff; which the same Pious men understand; And they grinned as they looked at cach other With a grin at once comic and grand. For their issues were pooled, So their risks were the fewer; That they could not be fooled They were more than cock sure, They'd an org and a contract To keep its tone le Well, the dealer hi And things we Tommy got a full And was sure of the «p But George W And he said ‘Then he jam missed ‘tain't accordis on his ear | le Tom make a face; When culture holds not the fourth ace. So the game can’t be played! | Who will dare take a band? Won't we all be dismayed As we meet through the land, | With the faces Tem Nast will be making At the cultured George W 's command? Which is why I assert— clear— \ys that are pert And for tricks t ‘The Christian m Which the s juee -man is peculi T stand up to right here. vor. Comte art is not dead, it but slumbers oe At the back of a “ mutual friend;” ‘The crayon which lit up back numbers Is piously turned end for end. \| For Tommy has met with a change ill; | And parted with most of his “sand”; He's anxious to be an archangel, And with the archangels to stand. . at. w. comicbooks.com