Judge — June 20, 1885 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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TAKING IT COOL. The summer drama m be termed the art of k oI. The success of the or now depends on his ability to turn his theatre into a refrigerator; and the time is coming when the ice-man will be of count than the stage-manager. — If 3 will abstain from reaching after th pole and strive to deport the arc- tics to New York boards, they willdo more goo. ‘The attraction of the future in spectacles will be iceberzs, and we shall see crystalline bills announcing “ the coolest theatre in the city,” and promising to introduce an attrace tion as realistic as that chef d'eurre of the Crummelses, when they introduced “a real pump” into the scene. ‘Tufft will bea name on the programmes along with those of the scene painter, the furnisher, and the piano-maker, as furnishing the arctic foun- tains and the designs in ice. All this is not reasoning too curiously when we read the principal attraction at Wallick’s to be a cold blast to be forced under every chair by machinery, reducing each individual to the zero point, or as near that as he may find it comfortable to come down. We hope Mr. Moss will attach a thermometer to every chair, so that an occn- pant may know when he is frozen stiff. We read that the room can be made ‘al- most uncomfortably cold ” by this cool blast, | and that without its havin ed through | ning ¢ the ice-chamber at ail. ‘This suggests dan- | gers, and in addition to the thermometer it will be well to have arctic ditions organized and held in at every ¢ p-house safeguard relief ex readine; start on a mome ning for Wallack’s. By these and other precautions that will suggest themselves as the weather grows and colder inside the theatre, tion may safely go on, dramatio— unities, Mr. W: put on some such plays as “AS and make an ensemble that shall throw cold water on the a wet blanket on the andience, and cause them to turn the cold shoulder on the whole lay ont. Other managers will have to compete in chilliness, and they are welcome any of these suggestions if they choose to adopt them before Mr. Wallack wakes up to the cold crisis. It will be a hot day for the manager who gets left in this race for zero. There are congealed ideas and ice enough for all, and there is no reason why we ma not have adozen ‘coolest theatres "—nnless | for a cooling novelty they should decide to utter only ** the frozen truth,” | hotter outsid the refrige To presers the arctic—and ‘k should | sami THE JUDGE. Y y have noticed a laughing crowd is generally a cool one. At least, the man who laughs never frets about the heat. ‘There is philosophy in this, too. Half the annoyance and inconvenience of heat come from thinking about it and fretting over it. Amuse a man ona hot day and he'll not know itis hot. ‘The crowd knows this by perience; hence, the places where fun is dispensed are crowded in hot weather. Kos- ter and Bial’s, for this reason, isa cvol place in which to be—at least makes one un- consciou: mounts to the thing. ‘To paraphrase Shakespeare, “He that is hot let him not know ’t and he’s not hot at Did Byron pre “ beer, women and song” for the ills of life—or was it Koster and Bial? They have been able, lately, to counteract the hot weather by these three— the beer from the vault and the women and song on that stage with radiating peacock’s tila. ‘These purveyors succeed admit in keeping up the interest and variety of their entertainments. it of the heat, which REVIEWING THE REVIEWERS. The critics have been getting a taste of attack lately. ‘Turn about is fair play * for it is sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petar.” Mile. Nevada shows up the Times critic, and Siducy Rosenfeld. tries to yeteven.” Such a fight is one in which the public is quite willing to occupy the attitude of the woman during the tussle b tween her husband and the bear; but it must be the critics 1 all ad- vanta ways e their d d ved the disere poning her criticism on Mr. Schwab, of the Times, (if, indeed she meant him, of which there is doubt) until she was “ boundin’ billers” and ont of re The singular thing about the case exuberant virtue of Mr. Schwab. He to himself all the force of Mlle, Nevada's criticism of the critic of the Times—although its proprietor dec! inger A DANGEROUS Youna Lapy—‘‘ Goodness, where's my escort?” | not coat to one’s self! And then the ravenous virtue with which | hwab declared he would sue Mile. Mr Nev these shores, be the same one or ten its crit ada us hence! cabled in every word, for it. pro u charity to suppose an overpewerin put back of these erit be taken away, what cise dama, He i perly to attri | | 23 | did him—all “Over the Ri pon as sh Oh, that she had forty-thousand lives, one is too poor for his reve hot > aye, haste on, Schwa pitin, an of ¢ are ubove selling their opinions, to what are we bute of views? Dis the chwab | sea. Hus nod of bis shapely head, | Wit | A He a » han If not next spring, th Tl return "fo! And the bouquet of s Painted the whole | And the Fool killer re COUNTRY Ov py a fish by er the River, at gu vt fort th Au Reservoir! FOR DUDES. and conned and noted in a book, and if she say ought that can serve as a pe sleuth-hound—or perhaps more rat-terrier—on her track, Methinks the critic doth protest too much. 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