Judge — June 13, 1885 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE. under the direction of Mr, Stecle Mackaye Delsarte fame, and its fulfillment in the form | of the two brief reproofs administered. by | that gentleman to his $200 disciples because | murmurs of discontent that were sometimes heard when they thought of money of nothing in return to cons¢ At findin n I was young T never their complexions on my Shining, broadcloth sleeve. | DRAMATIC ENCEPHALIC HY RTROPHY, asc, to which at all times re liable, has of late be- sume a contagious This terrible d actors and singers i | come & Imost to J | form in New York theatres. ‘The symptoms | of the disease are a nervous and morbid de- j sire to remain before the scenes after their lines and their business are done, and to press j forward to the foot-lights while on, “though in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered A rest- less disturbed condition of the nervons system is manifested. ‘The mental symptoms are equally marked. ‘There is a constunt dwel- ling of the mind upon the patient’s person- ality, with a tendency to e: ‘ate the im- portance of his or her own words and ucts. This proceeds in later stages to positive mental unsoundness; sometimes in the form of a monomania, and again as a hallucina- tion. The patient fancies he is constantly in the public eye, and that no one else is thonght of, nothing else talked himself and his movements and a ingular form of hallucination is one that is the person to think himself a greater n than the greatest actor, Sometim ney that he is that other great man. A re- cent victim of this epidemic is Joseph A. Ha- worth. Last December he appeared to be of ound mind and judgment,” an®ambitious- ly aiming ¢o be what he was not, very humbly made application to Manager Chizzola to be in Salvini’s support, all he could learn so much from this but since then Mr. Haworth has become so infected with this dread disease, that he presumptu- ously demands the privilege of being Salvini | on the latter's“ ts” in ‘Richard IT.” Possibly the offer of a higher salary from another quarter may have aggravated this case of Encepbalic Hypertrophy, ymore popularly known as the **b A DRAMATIC CONFIDENCE GAME. | When, if ever, the history of the late la- “Lyceam School of Acting” is ; | mented 5 | || written, it will be a description of something | that borders very closely onafraud. It will j recite the plans of an institution that “roared so loud and thundered in the index!” | those beautifully wsthetic circulars! There | will shine that brilliant faculty (that was to | be) of some thirty professors and lecturers eminent in all specialties that relate to his- | || trionic art, and over against these the beg- | } gurly array of a miserable dozen, only three or four of which had any show of title to teach art principles—not to mention thei | lack of that especial teaching tact-faculty which is a necessary qualification in a learned college professor, drat dispenser, or bindergarten monarch. ‘There will be read the promise of a school with. There will be recorded the promise to the pupils of engagements to act, and the now But things have changed since then, b'gosh, failure to find any such engagements, ‘A boy can't have a frolic ve a gratuitous mob appearance for With modern girls unless he risks couple of weeks and a number of ‘A slag ot falalers colle. ap places (mostly £3.00 per week) in “ Dakolar, There Will be pitiful stories of tuition bills exacted in advance from young people who distressed themselves and their friends to raise the money and to meet the | winter's expenses—for which they have neither the promised instruction nor pros- pects of employment to show. On the con- trary, one of the pupils was recently informed by Franklin Sergeant, Dean of said institu- tion, that it was adifficult thing to get situations for pupils, because the school was in bad repute with managers. If the finan- ces of the enterprize can be got at, history will tell of some fienty thousand dollars thus screwed out of poor but ambitious people. to be invested in the L m Theatre and little or nothing of value given for it, Is it not a lamentable thing that the fi tempt to institute a scaool of dramatic | in this country should turn out to be not | only auch a failure school, but to have assimed ac so questionable and disastrous at the las | It is a tinale that every lover of dramatic art must as much deplore as reprehend. THE RINK DID IT. Put away his roller And his little shinny, 100; For young Jolin was gently wafted Up the ancient, golden flue. Yes, he played on ne of polo At the captain's kind req ker, Ile can best relate the rest, Save me—sce the under ENTANGLED, With | A dan Emeshed by thy so subtle art, rt thy hair, impervious maid, erous ambush thou bast laid Tis thi sweet one, € With) led there thy hair! | Yet L would know, O! m Before 1 woo and ell thee im If those rich tresses are all thin i cs. CONEY ISLAND SWELL Doc—* I say, Pe Pr Ain't your name Bean, and ain't you a chiropodist ¢ corn and Beans don't make succotash, what does it make, eh?” what made you introduce me to those ladies as Dr. Succotash?” ‘matter with you? if comicbooks.com