Judge — January 3, 1885 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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10 Tue end of the holidays ec an improvement in bu theatres, and this year to the rule, During Claus, which may be mence a fortnight before christmas, little business isdone. The s 3 offer a counter attrac- tion (no pun intended stent than any the managers can pr an besides using up all the spare change to be found in moderately circumstanced households, also | demand all the sj ordinarily the theat est patron: sequently man: ong the many who | rejoice that “ Christmas cor but once a year.” rmonly marks ut the city ms no exception reign of Santa he production and instant success of Mr. Henry Guy Carleton’s new play at Wallack’s is about the most important recent | event to bechronicled in the theatrical world. The production of an American play of any kind at Wallack’s is an event from its very novelty, and since that play bids fair t run into the success of the season, American authors in general, Mr. Carleton in particular, ar > ¢ ulated. Tue Jvpee would li “Victor Durand nothi r than tosee (not much of «title, by the way) established as a precedent whereby not only Wallack’s, but several of our other city theatres might be lin the future. The Madison Square meets with abandant st o have plenty of cess, § ems trouble as well. Its alumni do not stick to their Alma Mater, but sooner or later strike out into the wicked world of theatricais for themselves, and either ignore or havea down- right quarrel with the sanctuary in ‘Twenty- fourth Street. Steele Mackaye, whose Hazel Kirke, as Hazel Kirke, first saw the light under’ the fostering care of the Mallory seceded lo nd for several years had anything but pretty things to say of the reverend managers, ‘The Frohmans have deserted, and are now more or less altaches of Wallack’s; while Gillette, forgetting th the Madison Square made of his "Professor what probably no other management could have dc been playin, that ' and Palme: have labelled ** Private,” and set aside for the delectation of their own especial patrons, On the merits of the ecretary” con- troversy the courts will have to decide, but meanwhile the opinion of th ofession is | that Mr. Palmer paid a | -o for a translation of a farce which he could 7 had for little or nothi und that he will have hard work to preserve exclusive rights any part of it, except as to such introduc- s the I translator made, which, counts, are unimportant enough. 8 in the country has never been | worse than it has been thi. Mang are fond of imputing this to the presiden election, but the effects of that have been dis- counted long ago, and the real grievance seems more likely to rem The ten cent skating rink is one of the most formidable 10 Secretary” which Mallory quasi succe: azon. no of the ladies— | a ges THE JUDGE. rivals traveling theatrical companies have ever encountered, and rs are begin- ning to recognize the at nothing: willl pay but cheap prices in the rural districts nt has been tried, we are told, results, and wemay expect, many comb s playing cents and a dollar. To effect. this change will cost something in the way of loss of possible re¢ to be run on ean pr be saved on adve . we Te the cut will have to be made on | salaries, ‘There will be room for quite a sweeping reduction in that dire paying rn profession” any less than they are worth, and, indeed, we know of not a ding histriones who would be dear at any p without re: s of “the y ornam The really capable actors and actresses not be greatly disturbed. ‘They will always command their price, and they are not so humerous as to serions volumne o} ' theatrical expens week there were more orato’ ‘a will take pl iarden, and Francais de the light fantastic at Tall. Down at Niblo’s Fanny Daveny ing ** Fedora” at popular p the Star Ristori is playing Maric at unpopula Aimec has departed from the Fifth Avenue, and Mestayer’s Co. in We, Us, have taken her place “Brought to Jus has vanished from the Third Avenue Theatre, and in its place Herne’s ‘* Hearts of Oak." led ck” was last week at The People’s Theatre. lowing its peripatetic course it is now over at The Grand Opera House, and Raymond, with his three plays, ‘* Ce “Ine Paradise,” and“ For Congres 1 ished from our gize. Barney McAuley has taken possession of the Fourteenth Street ‘Theatre, and is doing “The Jersey Man.” Tue Jever is sorry for Mc Harrigan and Hart's misfortune, and off them his sympathy on the loss of their theatre, and the public his sympathy on the loss, for a time at least, of one of the brigh est places of amusement in the city. A new play was in active rehearsal when the Thea- tre Comique succumbed to the fire-fiend. “Adonis” keeps on the even tenor of his way at The Bijou. Daly and The Union, and Madison quares, are crowded every n d The Standard has opened with considerable eclat. Opera at the Academy has subsided, bu at the Metropolitan, business and the big drum are still boomin, “Prince Methusalen sino, and continnes at The the American Institute ILall, and the Old Cosmopolitan, are given over to | roller skates, Tur Fall that comes after Summer has left us, but the fall that follows a slip on the icy sidewalk is just coming into fashion. NOTHING cli more pe ently to form than the garment known ¢ "_E Tow absurd. man is a living the female the Jersi of its untruthfulnes: Lands. ay sad ir eyes in tears full sway for They Ml lose th sna ion of the Palestine andery will be held at the Metropoli- Ie on Tuesday evening, Jan- The receptions of this comman- fash ble and The seventh Comy tan Of vary Et dery a recey among the most ible soc son. SHE WOULD BE A More —" AN! Kute ; nate? Kate On DUDINE. phats that your got on Johnnie's Compositions. 1, WIND. 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