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10 THE JUDGE. “Love on Crutcues” popular at Daly's, Mr. Daly advertises this play entirely novel comedy based on a German piece by Strobitzer.” © We don’t know much about Strobitzer, but ‘ Love on Crutches” is strangely auggestive of Victoricn Sardon. In the second act the principal membe of the company become extrem gitated over a “Scrap of Paper” in the shape of a love letter that James Lewis is supposed to imagine he has hidden in a music book, This mysic book stands on an open piano, and everybody has seen Mr. Lewis’ manauvre, and consequently everybody endeavors to surreptitiously get hold of the precious mis- aive. It is finally extracted from the book and dropped into a vase or jer, and here the resemblance to Sarduu is not so strong, for the jar does not contain tobacco, and it has no bottom, Lewis grabs the vase and carrics it off, leaving, of course, the letter behind. ere it is picked up by the wrong party (Mrs. Gilbert) who flourishes it triumphantly, exclaiming ‘ I have it Tableau—curtain. Act 111. is ** Divorcon with the restan rantscene leftout. In ** Love on Crutches” the husband and wife, who hate each other, and are about to have a separation, meet at a soap-bubble party at 4 friend’s house. Husband for the first time discovers that his wife has a beautiful form and a pretty hand. In ** Divorcons” the foot is the part of the anatomy that attracts particular admiration, but Miss Rehan’s hand is rather better than her foot, and so the new reading is quite nroper, After this John Drew adjusts Miss Rehan’s diamond earring, and wife begins to think husband ‘real nice,” and then it is the play. of course Miss Reban and John Drew are the unhappy couple that become reconciled to, and in love with one another. Miss Rehan plays with spirit and animation, and in all but the first act, looks uncommonly well. Mr. Otis Skinner and Miss Edith Kingdon are the second pair of lovers that are always to be found in all well regulated plays. Miss Kingdon is a new-comer, but she is remarkably handsome and very clever, and has created a decided sensation among Mr. Daly’s patrons. Her manners and her dresses sro equally charming, and attention between her and Miss Rehan is pretty evenly divided. To these two women much of the success of the play is due, Another new faco (and a decidedly pretty one it is) is that of Miss Jean Gordon, who plays the small part of French maid to perfection, The scenery and the furniture are exquisite. We strongly suspect that Miss Rehan is largely responsible for the good taste that is always displayed in the stage sets at this theatre. Mr. Daly announces that he is engaged upon 8 new eccentric comedy (also based upon a German piece) and that Farquhar’s old comedy ‘ The Recruiting Otticer ” will be revived daring the season. continues to be | a plain sailing to the end of the chapter and | This piece has not been played here in "il Sing No More, | over fifty years, und Miss n will appear — | as Syleia, the herome. ‘This Sylvia busin I'L sing no more; is expected to forma companion picture to | I'm sick and sore, her Pegyy aud Douna Mypolita impersona- Of having people beg and tease; tio ob G do sing, We wish we had something cheerful to say Most anythin; j about Ristori’s performances down at‘ Star, but the fact 1s the audiences have been small and cold, and altogether dispiritin Brooks and Dickson have had heavy loads I this season, and Ristori and her ave been the heaviest of all, ‘Their 3 is now inthe hands of a receiver, they deny that they have failed. t ‘The Metropolitan, con- : numbers of genuine ‘To be eure, there are times n many of the boxesare vacant, but that ar gain to the rest of the audience, and n't materially affect the office receipts. The fashionable, who come to chatter and toexhibit their phy ) in the parterre, seriously distur the more decently | dressed people in the orchestra and balcor and some pretty sharp rebukes have be administered to the gibbering idiots by irate Teutons, who, having paid three dollars a piece for seats urally feclas if they had some rights that even a millionaire is bound tinues to att lovers of musi wh is at Materna | the opera will becons Mapleson. has betaken a we suppose still more . himself to other yopu | climes, so to speak. Ie had poor success at The Academy, and it rather scems as if | prima donnas at four thousand dollars a per- formance, would, in time, become a drug in the New York market. The mountings of “The Prophet, “Lohengrin,” and ind ‘The Metropolitan have been superb, and for the first time in the memory of the oldest bitant, there have been fresh faces, fresh voices, and really handsome dresses in the choru If Italian opera shoul uble, and should g and battered fem dof all the ope ase to be fashion- ether, the old les that have done duty for so many successive generations in the Academy choruses, would have to go into the ballet, or resume their positions at the primeval washtub. Damrosch will have none of them. At the Fifth Avenue The and company are play Co.” All performance be more enjoyable if Mr. Stetson would employ a few ushers that could be made to understand their busin t isa work of of time for a ticket-holder to ever find his seat here. Piloted by a small boy, the un- fortunate aspirant for ebestra chair is obliged to wander up and down a labyrinth of aisles that are entirely too narrow for loco- motion, while the urchin vaguely struggle to make the figures on the ticket and th on the chair-back correspond. his makes it pleasant for those in their & as well as for the late arrival. About the time the Theatre Comique was burned, the opening of the Standard took lace—thus one cometh 2 nother gocth, We sincerely hope that Harrigan and Hart will be fortunate in their new venture, and if anything er anybody can make a succ of the New Park, Messrs. U. & I. are the the ones to do it. atro, Mestayer in We, Us, & at this theatre would A__FEW more Democratic would assure Republican success in cighty- Jeight. The number of killed and injured by cannon and pyrotechnics reaches into the thousands already. celebrations Mc But, oli! do sing us something, please.” And when I start, With vocal art, reat an Abt or Schubert lay, They lau Or cr eu “come ¢ And gi Millard [ try; They ak me why My voice is hoarse or failing, sir: ‘That's bad enou But what is rou k me to sing The Sailing,” sirt wn “Jef Joslyn” Gets His Life Insured. Mrs. Jostyn having kept me awake night after night for a long time—giving me cur- tain lectures, and insisting upon my taking | out an insurance poli y life—I last week consulted my friend Evins, agent of the “ Feenix Muturl Co.”, to that end, Phe title ” isa misnomer; for the first thing I was compelled to do was to fork over a ‘* fee” of three dollars fora med- ical examination of my physique. ‘Then | s called a savage-looking surgeon into | his office, and the twain led me to the slanghter-room, and proceeded as follows First, after partially disrobing, I was 1 upon a torture rack of Spanish’ Inquisition time, and the thumb-screws and leg-c \ applied. After turning the crank + stretching out my frame some six longer than its normal state, my m joints, and nerves were pronounced in good condition, Nest, the doctor took a ponderons sledge- hammer and smote me three berrible blows on my brea Result, as uoted by | Evans: “Lungs 0. K.” | Then they sonsed me in a tank of cold water and held me anderneath for four min- | utes, by the watch, to see if I would be su ceptible to death by drowning in case of ac- cident. Passed this test satisfactorily. Following this, in rapid snecession, they bored into my jugular vem with a gimlet, and made a micrescopic examination of my bone. comicbooks.com