Judge — February 21, 1885 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE. Now that the bottom has suddenly fallen from Mr. Carleton’s play, Mr. Stephenson’ long promis act comedy **Impt has 3 been placed on’ the Wallack’s theat The Impulse’ numerous o' in London, where has been cut short. theatre, it ran fo: It reached I broke out with consi fever before this attacked verywhere ext its course St James’ dl nights, ver, 1883, Boston Mus » but it lasted o1 short time, n hs g the that Miss Kate wcially engaged to do duty as the in Eric Bayley and his coi the means of expo and afew a icent towns to the malady, k. The eom- to give up the ew York has fallen a vict Mr. Walls ed us with an attack for a year and ahalt, but the catastro- phe has frequently been averted by the pro Ase duction of other novelties and no we had al wll abou How | 1 hase, time alone ‘can tell It has been said that “Impulse” is an ation of a French ly, and it does S rt ing upon flirtation 3 to fly with this conviction a former lover, and interrupted, of sher to return aed to do 80 with an accident. cour home, becau After » begins to find out what afin vw her husband really is, when, ofcourse, the bad lover turns up again. Then there isan interview and the bad | lover compells the wife by threats to introduce 1 him ander rmed name to her husband. Husband ve ion, and there is a seer an lover is com- pelled to leave the h After absence he returns, ent wife's threatens and pleads with her. tells him that loves only her I Husband, of cour overhears the remark, shasty exit. Reconciliation, » is nothing new in all y means tiresome enty of good points and effective situations, and the com- pany at Wallack’s make the most of several right and farcical dialogues. Like tor Div ,’ the whole of “Im- pulse” might be given in a much shorter time, but what isa play good for, if it can’t keep people in their seats for three hours, 2 | Up |. Down at the Star, the Florences are hold- Jing forth ina play by Jessop a Mr. Florence now ¢: | Last the Facts. Mr. i Pinto Perkins” the incorrigible | Mes. Florence 1s the same authorei Matilda nt quite the same though, for this comes forth in still more gorgeous » than that she appeared in last year, Her naivete, able are as lies the cl while listening to the Gorernor’s re herein stories, and her ridiculous poetry | | nge. amusing as eve At the Grand Opera House, Maggie Mitchell, is playing in ‘ Fanchon.” The cricket is ratheradvanced in y to be sure, but he still chirps right merrily, and Fan- chon dances as gaily, and frisks about the hington’s Birthday the opera of will be bronght out at the * Patience’ Casino. Digby Bell, Ry Joyce Will be in the “In Chancery, Private Si v, Mary Beebe and Laura t. nero, is to succeed by at the Madison pretary the Metropolitan Opera House. If afew of the numerous skating rinks would now close their doors, business at the theatres might improve. Mr. William Mill Butler, of Rochester, has for two been engaged in compiling a Dramatic Dictionary, which will form, when | finished, a complete text book of the stage. , Dramatic critics, and indeed all lovers of the | drama, will find this a valuable book of reference. I Covty a tale unfold,” said the learned ‘but what's er use? Tt would soon curl in.” . counted a n, yet it Tur looking glass is general | vain and frivolous thing of fast gives most of its time to reflection. SOME GOOD IN EVERY UAE DYNAMITE TO SCATTER SULLIVAN. Epitaph. Sur un Vieux Garcon, ‘Tas stone conceals our friend Sam Saxe, Who, he it said ‘twixt you and me, Was daft on personal liberty Scant place his record bere exacts. His needs were few, his pluns not vast; In fact, until the very last, Treading life's humdrum, humbler tracts, He left to spouses high-elash fs For, we must own, he had of strife, such disgust, in jeopardy of rust, And deaf, to boot, he took no wife. Bat mending, darnin He found in quiet such delight, ‘That when, one day, Death showed his knife, Sam just declined to strive for life. ‘wu. eructucas she might, THE “DUDE.” Hi Habite, Mode of Living, and General Feeding Grounda, ‘Tue muchness of the which makes me ¢ ‘The remoteness of the wherefore mak: Both the whatness I can find, And the howness of mankind, Bat the too-ness of the is Breaks my spine. The kingdom ov the globe hav always been devided inter 4 parts viz; via: namely, Animul, Vegtable, Mineral and Po! , but the modern exgencies ov the times (that’s a | good word, but it’ll be bald-heded_ soon, the boys overwork it 60) demand a addition an’ it’s been named ‘‘ Esthetic.” _ Into this last kingdom the dude is crowded, an if he waz ever troubled with a disire to move ( vhich he izn’t), he'd have his hand-painted gloves full tryin’ to git round mongst the other anamulz what inhabit this kingdom, such az Japanese fans and umbrellas, vinegar jugs, broken | china and lots of stuff under the jineral title ov ‘ Brick-a-brick.” It izn’t hard to tell a dude when you see it, but its pritty hard fer the dude to tell any- thing when ke sces it If you go long the street an’ see a thing standin’ on one foot and a stick, with hair dragged down round the edge of its head, (to feos it from rustin—anything will rust what izn’t uzed), you can gess its Tt never looks az if twaz alive tho’, but that’s part ov the circus. It’s alwayz located on a stare, and if it’s a rich one it has gold rims round the stare. It’s usually got on clothes what resemblea crazy checker-bord: as if he had a cross-eyed mother what patched ’em with the line run- ning the rong direction. Sience sez the dude iz alwayz a male, but I gess if Sience wazn’t afraid ov his wife he might tell a different story. is boots are alwayz black, and shine like live dude. | | | | i} | | | | | | | i comicbooks.com