Judge — January 24, 1885 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE. GerMan Opera purs its way at the Metropolitan Opera House. Since the arrival of Materna, the house, big aa it is, has not been large ¢ hto contain all the people anxious to hear this famous Wagnerian song bird. Damrosch has his hands full, but he is equal to the occasion. his principal singers haven't seem to be ndividuals than do the stars of Italian opera troup Among the thus far, the c! ngers have been theonly kickers. They weresummarily t with, and now their absence is not Mapleson, on the other hand, has no end of trouble with his tenors and es the even tenor of had with Nevada. parrot and monkey time w h irate warblers and S f rable breakfast and hei and their busts settled that mem suit against her m: ‘ On the whole, we conclude that our Ger- man friends are good natured and ‘easy to get along with.” Their performances, like their dispositions, are uniformly good, and it looks as if ‘¢ the m of the futur as to be the future music of New York. Just at the present however, Wagner and Meyerbeer have their rivals, and the songs of Harrigan and Mart ve New Park, and the music of the Roller Skates at the Cos- mopolitan, still draw crowds of enthusiastic admirers. Farther down Broadway, Mr. Dixey’s voice is heard to break the stillness of the mid fternoon air, and “It's nd “The Wall Street 8 encored, Then there is ‘A Trip to Africa,” at The Standard, and Miss Marie Conron, and Miss Mae St.John, take turns in doing the principal soprano busine Bat for pure and unadulterated melody commend us to the Comedy Theatre, where John Mackay, Ida Malle, and the double cornet divide the honors between them, in “A Bottle of Ink.” Here you get the worth y, and no mistake. Mackay gives us all his old jokes and a few new ones. The opera of ‘* Orpheus and Eurydice” with the part of Eurydice left out, gives Ida Mulle a chance to display her- self as Cupid, and the “Princess Ida” forms & prominent part of theentertainment. Be- side all this, Mr. James P. Locke performs “the wonderful of playing first and seeond parts of a duct, on two different cor- nets.” ‘The programme tells us that “Mr. Rice takes most pleasure in introducing this novel and most unique performance to the Ameri- can public.” This we can readily believe. “‘Mr. Rice takes most pleasure” and the audience take very little, still there is some- thing left to be thankful for. Mr. Locke has not yet learned to play simultaneously on three cornets, He is quite young, and time and ginger ale Abbey last year had a perfect | | instrumer may do a good deal for him, but just at present he has only wind enough for two ““Ixion” will sueceed a “Bottle of Ink” when Ida Mulle and the bower of roses shall have gone from our gaze, and Pauline Hall will in become an attraction at the Com- edy. Hilarity at the Fifth Avenue h: ceased, and dignity and majesty now tread John classic stage. "Mestayer with his id has departed, and Edwin Booth is id to Me em to be akespeare with a company 1 taken from the Boston M for hard-up manage ng no y ton and McVicker, who hav zame with the Milan Opera ¢ have been tendered politan House. I Mr. and Mrs. MeKee Rankin h had a testimonial benefit at Walla *A Bunch of Ke follows ** Sk the Light of the at Niblo’ this comes ‘Thatcher, Primro: minstre Mr. a to Quit denefit the tl a layed a mpany, benefit at the Metro- is occurs as we go to losing Notice » Rankin play Morris Theatre this eek, and Lotta has moved from the Gran Opera House to the People she appears in the “ Litt In the mean time the is taken by the pany, and Agne detective. rand Opera House “Michael Strogroff” C Booth is playing in ages of Sin” at the Fourteenth Street Theatre. Theatrical scand. at this sea of the year, and one in the gree society. The esc ald Eyre and Marble have furnished delightfal ti the greedy ones, but the former has gone to California, and the latter denies most of the stories about him. Mr. Morrison has been obliged to leave Wallack’s, ‘owing to a previous engage- ment,” but the pl pes on all the same. A New York daily calls attention to the fact that the most successful companies this sea ave been those presenting dramas by America thors Bartle 's plays have Barrett has made money with ‘ Rimini.” ‘ Victor Durand” “Love on Crutches” much ge a charch sewi lone well. da uncese Wallack * (more orless American) at Daly’s, have both been successful, and Grau has lost money on The made while he has money with Aimee in English. he Silver King he Lights 0’ Lon- and ** Called Back” have done poorly. mond has had an unusually good sea- son, and jays are American. — He left Brooks and Dickson at the end of last season, and he congratulates himself that he is now his own manager. immi tt has been making mone’ San Franci She says sho is not goir alia, but will soon wend her way east- ward, and when the gentle spring-time comes, her voice will mingle with the warble of the robins on old New England’s sea girt shore, Beside all this she has bought a new California (!) diamond, which is only a little smaller than her own expansive smi this (the diamond, not the smile) is expe to shine with effulgence in the jewel scene in Faust. Oe A car-coupling—a marriage on the train, No, Delorious Traverra, the humming of the mill is not the millstone. Theatre, where | -| BE VERY CONVENIENT TO DEMAND. {| -bits for, yin HT in B2 ne y | prepared to supply for them WELL! THERE ARE A FEW FOR WHOM IT WILL | A heavy tax—the stocking rent, von says that the English Premier will be called to the House of Lor Some | | political bridge-builders will question whether a really good pier can be made out of such material as Glac one. | _ | As the time is rapidly approaching when | the American people ‘will be called on to choo 1 successor to Mr, Cleveland,” is the way on enterprising papers, already puts it. * s rest for the weary,” The , doubt, unless the weary happens to be an American citizen. BUSINESS Lamr axp On, Max— doing a ery light business, DEPR It speaks for ite lan comicbooks.com