Judge — November 1, 1884 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE. Tus week, with all the theatres in New York in full blast, not a serious play can be found at any one of them. The craze for comedy, burlesque and French millinery is now at its height, and the auditoriums are half-tilled with le gable-roofed bonnets that perk up beside the old bald-head 1 nod approval in a most bewitching ma ‘Two distinguished foreigners have sue- cumbed to the signs of the times, and have broken their with their heavily accented English, and lugu- brious plays. Ristori is expected to give u Italian English, but just at pr nothing to weep over, not even Back.” ‘Tho nearest approach to serious business is at The r, where Italian Opera at POpuIaE prices will prev Beginning up town, we find filled nightly by people anxious to heai Digby Bell, his wife Laura Joyce, Lilly Post, 1 Madame Cottrelly warble melli- ne Beggar Studen the street The Cosmopolitan has been transformed into ahuge Skating Rink, where tne patrons if not the proprietors will soon find their level. The New Park, after minstrelsy, begins a season of opera boutffe. M. Godchauk, a costume maker, is sup- posed to be the financial backer of the enter- | eat and Catherine Lewis is to give us an English version of ** La Grande Duchesse.” The fair Catheri met with numerous reverses, but she continues to “bob up serenely” after every failure. “ Nita’s First,” a taste of nt we have “Called as proved a popular suc- cess at Wall: nd the English actors have been well received. Miss Robe, who lays the part of the jealous wife has not yet >a few 1 was temperature, and bi evenings ago, th called upon to take her part. Miss Russel had just two hours and a half in which to prepare herself, and she did so remarkably well that she was recalled in the middle of the first act. Mme. Ponisi and M. Denny are excellent in their respective ts, as arealso Mrs.Germon and Mr. Fritz Williams. ita’s First” wil’ keep the boards till a new play by Robert Buchanan is ready for | production. Over at The Bijou, Adonis isas popular as ever, while ‘ The Wooden Spoon” 1s making so much money for Daly that one begins to suspect he must have been born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Eric Bayle: including Mi Fifth Avenue. ‘The Ce piece de resistance, but it is pi night by a farce called “A Milliner’s Bill,” in which Mr. ley and Miss Gerard both and his Comedy Company, Fiorence Gerard, are at The | draw he Square, and “French Flats” has been re- Opera Hous vived. ephant tion” is Iart’s, att nes poor one. Lotta did and one ¢ The Un edt menced. Busines been quite towns. Butler did ag been proved appear, them is Square is a gre: a 0 been “The Seven e still at Niblo’s, and “Inve popular as ever at Harrig: n gues h Flat Janauschek and Janisch are worn out with — their trials, and Brooks and Dickson ha had no end of ill luck since the 18 \ meetings have m the Private Secretary t hit, and'the sign is An Artist’s Daughter,” that could not removed R ouise Lester makes music at Koster in his own theatre. One might think, to r tions like this, that the theatrical busi- was booming. few exceptions, the rau lost money on ‘Theo at Wi: poor **Called Back” was not a financial succe at the state of affairs at on Square when the opening picee is suddenly withdrawn and the manag: t sort to an old comedy like to It is hoped that after el bea turnin the tide of theatre affai | that some of the heavy losers may retrieve their fallen fortunes. in Ph torch light processions, and_ political ‘mass Je small audiences in other nd his brother Democrats never gree very well, and now pyond adoubtt never stole the spoons, the difference between | eater than ever. THE DEMOCRATIC WILLIAM TELL. An apple that won't be shot away. at the udison | Stand- Rhodes. from the Union by not sticking to his losing his all (awl). s” and ‘The Baby life with great fidelity. paint also, but are ustor is Once more Gr 1 over a listof| by salt I he truth is, with son has been a very air. lack’ Dal business at to his blunderin tuary of C ment fT ean’t,” did t fill the void. the much nominated The this time) on com- ion there will and combine their forces John. days the saint has elphia and Boston has in New York, and Indepent fashioned crats:— find hear! other stabl That same eveni old stall'and munche contented mind. since it the Gene r a gotist paint only their own ph t. haps because kind of salt used for this purpose has lo! It has been noticed t been down in the mouth, your pate is light— heavy as lead, WiLL onasonn, only At The ‘Fourteenth Street Harrison and Gourlay are playing in Skipped by the light of the Moon,” and = ‘The Bijou Opera Bouffe Company are doing | “phe greatest of all the straddlers (Ien- * Orpl nd Eurydice” over at The Grand | gricks not excepted) — the Colossus of ‘There is ashoemaker in Indianapolis, who, last, runs the risk of Rosy Boxieur paints ph s of animal Iler sex, in general, al enough to lizes. ms, is past saving the particular its But let not the widow-haunted man Before he is a lican friends will have him in a pickle. month older his When brother Benjamin, in the eminently Batlerian stump sermon which he delive brethren in the wigw ago, said : » preacher mean that the bon dieu hadn't so many irons in. the fire as he, m * God help you, worite son? political outlook (reports on oath All the prominent politicians of whatever party believe now that if the I men, the Cleveland men and the Butler men jaine they can defeat St. ut for some ent Orator dressing an old meeting of stalwart Demo- Where, fellow citizens, can you more spavined old war-horse than Blaine, or a more illiterate ass than Log *) 0, by gad if the ht as well have staid in the he went back to the his oats with a more — comicbooks.com