Judge — February 14, 1885 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE. ALonG with the February adver- tisements of great bargains at the dry goods | stores, comes a noti-e of a fall in the prices || of seats at the Union Square Theatre, Messrs. Shook and Collicr, after taking ck (companies) offer t 1 on their box-e er for Li lanche, and Mr * with thedumb girl, Marsden’s scenery five cents and ation. {usband” has proved s, and he and his one ned from the company now wife have re on the read. | On April twenty-s mer and her two-hu worth of diamonds w the Union Square, while the regular compa ny goes on the road for a month or two. Miss Margaret Mather’s manager, Mr. Ill, haa a lease of this theatre from September Ist to Mav Ist, 183° What 1s to become of the Union Square jcatre Company in the mean time no one Shook and Collier, in com- managers, have enth Miss Minnie Pal- (I thousand dollars | take possession of seems to kn pany with numerons oth ime all the season, and Dixey have proved an exception to the general rule, and have made money straight along. The Madison Square, too, has done fairly well, Why “Victor Durand” is kept on the hoards at Wallack’s, is a question for Mr. or Mr. Carleton to answer, The play, notwithstanding all that has been writte: in its praise, k, dull, and uninteresting, and as_the of late, is n more than balf full—evidently, the plav doesn’t draw, Mr. Wallack’s advertisement of the piece papers was rather amusing: {| ate ntion to the ¢ ion caused in literary and ariistic circles of Now York by the unqualificd f Mr. Guy Carleton's new play. For the ic atiempt of a youn wr it is con: nted th not only New York but of other principal cities, wh yrrespoudents have fully indorsed the prai y given here Really, Mr. Wallack, no apology is neces- We all know that Mr, Carleton is 5 and that his first effort is extraordi- nary, but perhaps he will do better another time, and maybe his next attempt will draw | outa few encomiums from the general pub- lic, as well as from the press. The plot or story of ** Victor Durand” been frequently told in all the papei irloton himself tells it all in the first ac! it doesn’t take long. Why he should have written three acts more, we know not, unless it be to keep the actors and audience in the theatre until eleven o'clock. There are several mysteries about the piece though, that are not cleared upat all. One | is why au escaped convict, recaptured by the should not be returned to prison at nd without ado, y is Victor Durand, after he is identi- fied by the detective, allowed to remain} in his father-in-law’s house all night? 'y what right does Mr, Gilbert, the father- | in-law, constitute himself a judge to con- demn the guilty and let the innocent go free? | ‘Tis kind of business is all very fine, and | Mr. Carleton may consider it true justice, | but unfortunately it isn’t law, and this last act is, if anything, weaker than the others that preceede it. As Tue Jupce has before remarked, he would like nothing better than to have Mr. Carleton’s play prove a bright and glowing success, but Mr. Carleton’s play is not worthy the praise it has received from the press, as the public can testify, and forcing and boom- ing * Victor Durand” will add nothing to Mr. Carleton’s or Mr. Wallack’s laurels If Mr. Chizzola does half that it is said he intends to do, next season, he will have his hands full, First, there is Salvini. Chiz- zola has him, and the great tragedian will i five times a week, instead of four, as has een his custom Then there is M. Coquelin. Chizzola has “The Recruiting Officer.” No speculators are to be found around this theatre, which proves that a manager can get rid of the howling nuisances if he really wishes to. The Carleton Opera ‘Troupe are warbling at the Fourteenth Strect Theatre, and ““Apajune ” is doing well at The Casino. “Txion” started last week at The Comedy, while Saulsbury’s Troubadours are with us once again, playing in ‘Three of a Kind,” over at the d rand Opera House. She Had Muscle. “ Yes, sir; say what you will, Mra, Jones is a woman very hard to beat.” “So her husband tells me.” “Racy ” matter—fast horses, A Lapy’s friend "—the paint-box. Ot Bourbon—Thomas A. Hendricks. A TERRIBLE accident—G. Cleveland. Hts maiden effort—the first girl—baby. Hicn wind—the N. Y. 7imes at twocents per copy. him, too. ‘The Frenchman will be supported by a company picked from the French thea- tres, and he will appear at the Fifth Avenue Theatre on January the 11th, but all this is nothing to wha tocome before. French- men, Italians, ete., pale before the tronpe of English blondes that, under Chizzola’s man- agement, will swoop down upon us in the early fall, Lydia Thompson, if she does not die of old age before the time arrives, will head the company. Miss Lydia will bring her charming and seductive daughter along with her, but her grandchildren and great_grandchildren she frill probably leave behind her in merry Eng- and, Beside the female burlesquers, there will be two low comedians. One of these is Wil- liam Elton, ‘Little Billy,” as we used to call him when he was here before. Ile made a hit in “The Gav’nor,” at Wallack’s, and | was a low comedian then—about five feet in | his stockings. Ilistory docs not state that he has increased in height. Daly announces the revival of an old play, “Variety is the spice of life,” and the ingredient of mince pies. “Love me little, love me long,” as the giantess said to her lover. | Tim man who was advised to follow his | nose,” says he is no nearer to it than he was fifty years ago. Tie farmer's langh—* hoe! hoe! hoe!” — Attleboro Advocate. The ecalper’s laugh— “har! har! har!” Professor—‘ After burial an infinite num- ber of small worms consume the body.” Student—* Do they eat out of the coffin- | plates?” ‘Tableau! A country newspaper prints the follow- ing heading over the funeral notices of mar- ried men: “* Notice of Partnership Dissolutions.” A SPIRITED COMBINATION. comicbooks.com