Judge — July 4, 1885 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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REFORM BY RIDICULE. The comrades of Tuk Jepce at THe Pray will, we feel confident, shout ‘ Hal- || they learn that it is duly recorded in the annals of the court that Henry Irving has resurrected his sepulchural voice from its entombment. Great isthe rejoicing thereat! His tones now have new strength and c! ness, ar His words are enunciated, not disin- ; lipped, not throttle of the leading London journals testimony to this effect. One even rs “that he has acquired the American voice.” This is ‘* too much—much too {| much, | We grant, because stern reality compels us | to, that Mr. Irving acquired much to his emolument while among us, but that h could achieve an American voice, never! That is our inheritance and not so casy to acquire. Irving w y be a good imitator—so is ’s inimitable imitation m | have been the direct canse of the marked improvement in Mr, Irving’s delivery. The anger which Irving displayed at wh termed ‘a sacrilegious burlesque of high art,”’ was the best evidence that the actor really saw the grotesqueness of the torted features of his acting in the mirror held up by Mr. Dixey. If Mr. Irving has been great enough to overcome his petty anger at this burlesque of ‘high art ”"—as seen in himself—it is much to his credit as a man; if in addition, he has been great | enough to correct the faults of Henry Irving | therefrom, it is a noble endeavor, and much to his credit as an artist. What transfor- mations mig ke place in the best of “Did some pow'r the giftie gie us to see oursels as ithers see us! WHAT WE OFFER FOREIGN ARTISTS. | Present advertisements indicate that we shall have an overwhelming abundance of foreign dramatic talent cast upon our shores the coming season. America is fast becom- ing the financial Mecca of foreign actors. They find ourfreehanded liberality as invig: orating to their debilitated fortunes as the sanctified air of Mohammed’s birth-place to the foot-sore and soul-stained pilgrims of || Islam. Small wonder. The field of oppor- | tunity here is so extensive that they cannot || association with us. If the English idol, Irving, gleaned from our fields, what a harvest is there for stars of lesser brilliancy. Possibly, American civilization may some- time develope that phenominal wonder—a lelujah ” with the rest of the chorus when | | ereditably avoid gathering some benefit from | | imagii THE JUDGE. ully-conscientious and courteous opera A THIRD CENT! Al That “ Adonis,” at the Bijou, scored its third cen- extraordinary dramatic — suce al lastThursday. From the enthusiasm with which it was received, one might safely predict that this performance is destined to | enjoy all the felicitous advantages that the ive Spaniards hoped to receive from their mythical Fountain of Life. Certainly Dixey and his country maiden seem ever new and fresh to their admiring audience THE RIOT ACT. Why this wrangling? Messrs. McCaul, Grau, Hastings, Duff, Stetson and others who may follow in your footsteps—gentle- men all, why this unseemly wrangling? Just bring your differences to Tue JUt His decisions are above price and not for the sole right, playwright and copyright of this much-claimed ‘ Mikado,” would he swerve one iota from his profound sense of justice. ADING A SYMPHONY OF SOUND, COLOR AND MO- TION SUGGESTED, Spectacular plays, like little children, “should be seen, not heard; ” they have no plot and what little story there is in them should be suggested by the pictures and music. Nearly all plays of this class have this end in view, and make some beautiful scenes; bat they could be much embellished by a more artistic conception of the ballet. As Mr. Harrigan. intends ‘to keep the clement of comedy but also to have something that will touch the heart ” in his fature per- formances; so the ballet can retain its essen- the dancing, but dispense and vulgarity, replacing these with art pictures wrought in beautiful colors and sounds. ‘The sense of color seems to be ignored in ballet costuming; or, rather, the sense of many colors, to obliterate all appreciation of harmony in colors. A striking illustration of want of style is to be seon at Kiralfy’s | “ Around the World in Eighty Days” at Niblo’s. A leading danseuse owns—either by purchase or inheritance—a mass of hair black as black hair can be. For this she tures a concomitant complexion as white as powder will make it; next paints cheek patches as red as rouge will make them; and this d/ase combination of three decided colors appears on the stage in a white dress decorated with artificial pink roses; a silver lace cap tantalizingly adjusted on the black hair of such intense iad ness, and witha band of the same silvery stuff dividing her body at the center! ‘Truly, a study of the outre. When the ballet shall have risen to a place in art work, such heterogenous com- binations as this will be replaced by sym- phonies in colors and harmonies in tone, | Imagine an ideal combination: Suppose all the groups in the ballet to be dressed in dif- ferent shades of the same color; so that we may enjoy the beauty of that one color without the detracting and distracting in- fluences of the usual kaleidescope variety Let the members of each group be dressed in the same shade—as, the first group all in seal-brown, wearing golden bells of a low tone; the next group dressed in gold-brown with bells of ahigher tone; so on, through | the scale of gold, yellow, buff, lemon, cream and cream-white; tones of bells growing | higher with lighter colors until the last one becomes a poetical “attenuated tintinabu- lation.” Here we would have many beautiful colors perfectly harmonious from Fightest to darkest; the bells should form a chord— sweet bells, of course, but not “ jangled, out of tune and harsh.” Mem. ror Dr. Scutreman.—If you want to find the remains of Alexander the Great, order an inquest with all the frills and employ a New York Coroner. Alick will be forthcoming. Boston REPORTERS evidently lack enter- | prise. ‘This is the incomplete way in which | they chronicle a startling event: ‘Mme. Nilsson ruined a 500 dress in Boston by | tipping over a bottle of ink while writing in an autograph album. This caused her to declare that she would never write in | another.” Nota word is divulged of how she tore up the album, hurled the inkstand at the owner of it, and tinted the atmosphere a delicate blue with remarks about the affai A New York reporter would not h | omitted all the interesting part of the special. Fat Mu. J try?” Foolish fellow {I shall remain in the city.” What, you going to the coun Mr. Jones’ REMAINS. comicbooks.com,