Judge — September 20, 1884 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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! Tuo the charming, wicked little Diva, with the ravishing arms and shoulders, and no voice worth mentioning, is with us once again and is making Wallack’s lively with her acting and her autics in ** Madame Boniface.” From Lulu Hurst to Theo is a change in- deed, and although the litte opera-bouffist ist ns amuscular woman, it must de « fe moves her audiences with mach gin Wonder. On the stage Theo is as irrepressible and as full of animal spirits as she was two ) ago, but off the stage she is supposed to be an inconsolable widow, — When she arrived here with her manazer a couple of weeks she was attired in deep mourning, which not only indicates that Mr. Theo has departed this life, but is a a sign that the little French woman is not to be out-done by her rival, Judic, in any one particular, for as soon as notices of Mr. Juvdic’s death appeared in the French papers, all Paris wa that Mr. Theo lay at the point of death, In. due time he showed the proper amount of devotion and beteok himself to another world, that his wife might come to America as charming a widew as Mme, Judic is con- ceded to be. In Paris ‘Theo has frequently been accused of imitating Judie, and when ath of the former's husband was nounced, an wdmirer of Mme. J.’s was he to exclaim, * ‘Chere she is, always the same, ality! [havea horror of plag' “Mme. Boniface ” was played at the Re- naissance for one hundred and twenty nights, und was written exp) for Theo, In it, her ve usnal, counts for nothing, Int she exhibits a great amount of go; and a little Jess of herself than in“ La Jolie Par- famense,” an opera in which she gaincd her greatest triumph, and one in which we frequently saw her when she was here last, Judic we have never seen, and until she arrives and sete about earning her one thous- and dellarsa night, Theo, at thr performance, 18 quite good enough, Investigation” down at ‘The Theatre Comique, has made a big hit, and if Harri- an derived this last inspiration from Schroon he, where he has been summering, we would advise a few other playwrights to take up their abode on the shores of its placid ers, and try and imbibe a few ideas from its liquid depihe. ‘ue plot is ingenious and comical, the fan is fast and furic and Braham’s music is unosually tunefal and catching. The whole company ure admirably fitted with parts, and if anybody likes toshont with lughter, let him gu anil seo * Investigation.” If there be people who prefer the lugubri- ous, not to say horrible, they can satisfy their morbid cravings by taking a dose of “ Called Back” up at the Fifth Avenue. This gloomy play has very little to recom- mend it, savo a few powerful scenes and s informed | e hundred a | our, sil r i “THE HOME NINE.” much in it that is y The death of D. Ceneri, and the murder Anthony March not being considered suflicient for the lovers of blood and thunder, a butchery scene in the assasination of Macari is added, that would doubtless prove valuable to the Cham- ber of horrers in the Eden Musee. and there i lutely revolting. If this piece enjoys a run it undoubt- | edly will do) and we hase some more “Fedora” during the season, with ‘ Nad- jezda” to look forward to inthe dim future, the admirers of the heacy business ought to be quite contented. Mr. Mantell has done quite as well, if not better, than his most ardent admirers hoped for, and that is say- ing s good deal. Miss Milward we regret to ute, 13 not up to the exigencies of the occa- sion, Marie Burroughs looks pretty, and Hubert Kelly does the best he can with a small part. In the first act Ferguson, as Macari, the spy, makes ahit. ‘Lhe piece, of course, has been thoroughly rehearsed and well mounted, and there is doubtless. money in it—and money, to paraphrase a popular saying—makes the piece go. Most of the traveling companies are already on their travels; some are doing well, and some are not. H. B. Lonsdale, formerly business manager of The Standard, has assumed the business management of The Bijou Theatre, Boston. More changes will soon take place in the business arrangement of the Madison Square. The Dramatic College, or what- ever the new building on Exst Twenty-third street is called, is rapidly approaching com- pletion. Steele Mackaye, Mr. Sargent, and one or two others will run it. Among the teachers engaged we notice the name of Mme. Ivan C. Michels, who has been a suc- cessful actress in this country and England, and has already fitted several noted actors fur the stage. It's all very well to ta!k about gas-light, but you don’t get *t that way in the Lill. My Neighbors. MY PEDANTIC NEIGHBOR, Sue could tell the great uncle of Moses, And the date of the wars of the roses, And the reason of things why the Ludians wore rings In their red aboriginal n Why Sh: And th And Anda small geolo; in his re was wron esp ammar, Brahma,” ‘ocks, witha little black box, ical hammer. meaning of Eme: went chippin on's | Of all my neighbors sho was the prentest bore tome. She would talk the Greek roots, and the branches of science, and the genca- ul trees, And she talked so much non- Iv made me tired, She tw of hydrostatics und water-pow but I do net think she ever realized the | power water might have had in keeping her face and hands clean. She always rose in | the morning fully two hours before anybody | else. She prided herself on this, but indi. | vidually I do not care for your very carly risers. They are sure to bo conceited wll the morning, and stupid all the afternoon. She has removed from my neighborhood now, so I can only sketch her from mem for the benefit of ny readers. Mra, Narcotic was her names “The pow- erful Narcotic,” Mrs. Lightfoot used to call her, for she always suid w very small dose of her put her to sleep. ‘There was alsoa Mr. ‘arcotic, but he was paralyzed—by his wife's intellect I think. There were three little | Mies Narcotics, with verv little petticoat and very much | Mra. Narcotic had read everything, and knew everything, and under- stood everything, or ifshe did not she pre- tended that she did, 8o it came to the same thing. She had studied every language, | dead or alive, had constructed a telephone, instructed several learned professors, and | dissected innumerable dead cats. She had a human shull, and the plaster cast of a foot comicbooks.com