Judge — May 23, 1885 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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ee se “sue’s LITTLE, BUT on MY!” There is an attractive force about certain oms of hamanity—little specimens of femininity—similar to that of attoms of matter that draw ether miniature workls of which they are the center, little won ually if she be a P woman, |) tra harm nable, unless the charm be in the Anyway, these mites seldom the nuclei of an admiring con- tive mer charmed crowded hon Square for three weeks. Why petit sity amd petted 1 te popular be Pretty pretty and petite: she is petite Imagine hera foot taller, we with a tendency to corset corpulenc we applaud when she jumped upon a and shook an empty wateri a love fi s different face, conceding it to be exactly t it is at present, look so cunni when sho sqninted her eves, little a 1 poute Ht Miss Palmer only aul fatter too, the movements we now pro- nounce graceful would have been ungainly; now kindly indulgent: and 1 not to see the mechanical efforts and effects of this little Indy, we would have been severely critical. We might now be inclined to point ont some flaws in this lady's ** Sweetheart,” only one shrinks from laying even the finger of criticism upon such a tiny creature, If an actress cannot be petite—the next most desirable qualilication is an indication of dramatic instinct, Would her fairly pretty same gly funny NONE OF OUR FUNERAL. So Rose lin plays“ Honeyme instead of You Like [t?” “Well, if her newly acquired husband like likes it, we have no right to object. Itis not our honey- moon, you know, WHITHER ARE OUR “CHESTNUTS” DRIFTING? Sometime ago there was an exodus to Oblivion of the negro minstrel troupes that uscd to raise the roof with side-splitting aughter. Now, the prestige of New York variety shows is dimmed. The favorite com- bination of ** Harrigan and Hart” is broken, Wheat this portend? Will legitimate tnirlesque business become a relic of the * good old times?” — Shall we have only nants of it, to be incorporated into such plays as **Adonis,” “A Bunch of Keys,” ete., THE JUDGE. with no more character than a piece of a wedding dress has in a confusion crazy-quilt? “WHAT'S IN A NAME?” | Not so much as there is in two; especial if those happen to be Booth’s and Ristory ‘There was enough in these names to fill the Academy of Music from the orchestra to the third gallery, and that too, on a wet, dis- is purely tragedy; there is not a line of comedy, an ‘ironical sentence or (with one exception) a pun orany play upon words init. ‘That is the way the Shake- arian drama ri but it was acted on this occasion there was enough of bur- lesque comedy clement presented. The lines contain sufficient of the tragic-awful ‘to harrow up thy soul, fr oung blood, € nd that was about the effect that we expected these leading tragedians would pro- duce, but somehow, it didn’t harro ngratulations are in order, if it was in- tended to relieve the sombre of the in- tertainment by stupid scene-shifters and ludicrons anxillaries. Tt would have made us dangh if it had not made us ** tired. When the noble Macduff reared his grief vociferonsly and pounded his right as well left lung instead of: his heart, the whole anddience § 1 inclined to * Lay on Mae duff"—or to sit on him, ‘The supers aries that officiated as maids of hone surtiers and noble ‘Thanes, n omeanly, dressed. and 3 if ashamed of being rf does not consist in belittlin ning of an actor is not magnified when he contrasts bis fiinished art with the erude attempt of novices, He thus degrades his art and him- | self. The public will not lo penuriousness — and The advent of Irvi mi a few good notes that Hy he in the discord of tin-pa on. haps the best result of Mr. Steele Mackay Dramatic School, is the effect that the en- semble scenes, given by the pupil institution, has had upon pi Lawrence Barrett foresaw the stren, mob enthusiasm would give to his * Cesar,” and generously invited them to ex- hibit with him at the Star, free of charge. We understand that the seventy-five supers in ** Macbeth " also rendered services free, much to their disappointment and disgust. If this report is true, it is a disg: etors, managers and all concerne bad enough for the audience to be imposed upon by the obanxions * Book of the Play” gougers—New Yorkers are used to all kind of swindles—but the supers should be paid their pittance Booth was our own Booth. Tis naturil tone and perfect enunciation were gratifying to our American pride after a surfeit of Irving’s ranting, hollow ton How would this English idol appear play- ing under such unfavorable circums those that surrounded Booth at the Academy? Isn't Irving's case an illustration of the ‘fifty dollar saddle on the twenty dollar i * Bat it is to his credit that he lavishly spends the fifty dollars for the saddle. stage ibmit to such If-aggrandizement, has ercated the de- Too many families in New York and Brooklyn buildings are coming to grief en the home base. Tue Jupce declares a foul. CAMP MEETING. Mr BL his wife Who t Didn't know which was worst, his mother-in-law in the churel were inclined, » be poured of * immersed,” And “sprinkling was not to their mind. Tired out with the strife, says Blank tohis wife, | * Your mother will never give in, | But as for the rest The Lord knows what is best, it eave the matter to Him, We mi. T must ease my brain of this terrible strain It is more than [ean bear, Let's go on a lark | To Asbury Park | We may settle the question there.” | At the Park that night the stars shone bel When down came The stars no me Mrs, Blank The Pre thunder shower! twinkled, ot sprinkled "— | yterians counted one more, Mr. Bi went out te When a lady, wash basin in hand, Looked out of her winder, to hinder, wdist band rubout, And —he joined the Me G— But the boa It quickly tippe And poor Mrs Went into the Buptist « shed “take a sail on the lake,” wea sudden lure, wae A BROOM THAT WON'T SW THE OCEAN HIGHWAY, comicbooks.com