Judge — August 29, 1885 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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HE JUDGE. | a = | J not keep genius down, but that the actor | the refrain ** For all of which my son-in-law itent to begin at the bottom may | will pay.’ || ve of uncultured antece- | More than all this, Mme. Cottrelly gains I y drawback to his reaching the top. | fame asa manager in the easy move But why is it that more men than women | ment and spirit. of the play. This lady is || climb to position with the variety stage as a rather an histrionic and lyric anomaly, it stepping would seem, MEDIOCRITY IN SPECTACLE, THE UNHAPPY MEDIUM. | 1 line of Hear, ol hear me Niblos continues in its s spec It often requires spectacles to Hlaee-compasaion on'n 1 | sce the attraction in somoof its pisces. The Night by night level lavoked you, | | vest it has had in months was ** Excelsior Flaw ca 'tiy Gk and that, while good as a spectacle, was ¢ fa H cidedly bad in its motive, as it too nar- | ave L-from, tla sprit basil: f rowly Frenchy to be just historic eis feat { “Clio,” Niblos’ latest in’ this’ line, is e eeetritie hana Gammnthiand, { | ) about after the usual style and draws the Sen AG RADY | weustomed —clientelle ‘of the spectacular Five} ars have T been mapping, } | | drama, 1 y face is pale w t lemy friends say T have fallen i ANERSATILE ARTISTES fair to medium man. { ADVERTISING DODGES. The first performances of ‘Chat ve led me to believing | ¥ . | demonstrated t a ow where the spirits are, ! Basiness mon with all thair shrowdness | | Oech hind not ‘been promised for, or ex: 4, they would show me 7 can gi pointers” on advertising from aes i } 4 one | ; theatrical managers and actors, ‘The thea- | pectel from it, | Manager MeCaull has spitits at the bar | tro is sodireetly dependent on advertising | ‘led to his Black Mussar plumes which Though by praying and by fasting 1 | that men in that business are compelled to von vere borne thick, if not blushing, Am E now reduced in weight; { make the means of « x the public at- | Upon him. : tT cant | make the means of catching, the pablic at | "Fre operetta is full of gitractive situa. ace | | | chants, adver minor feature of | tions and catching Pr \oaiabesd st fy While the st nd tell me, i their business, and one not deemed worthy | Makes hits in the song a Birdio Jeering at . ' of much special t t. We have had bo- | 9-Asing,”. whero tho range and managnment Tam such a wretched medium fore us lately, two antithetical announce- | Of her voice and her mimetic powers ar That 1am not worth a rap! | j mente in'regedl to theatrical advertising. nd in the popular trio with MOD cere | One is that Mary Anderson has become so | ————_____— ~ - = SE | lithogr nor allow paper advertising —notl | | appea i | er contra, we are told than an actor has '| } ordered f stribution fifty thon- | j | sand little glass jars containing ** Mixed | j | Pickles.” to be hoped that his play on the be better than his play on the words. The idea, besides being rather | | ap. is a borrowed’ one. Josh Billings 1 it in his lecture on “ Milk” by osten- ish of milk on 1 1 nd never referring to it. This sort of thing is a form of realism that is not | only bad art but bad business. One may | reasonably suspect the quality of the yp formance thus advertised, as, in fact, the } public does. It is easier to spoil a good prospect. by over-advertising than by too little publicity. ; As for Mary Anderson, the announce. i ment of her sh scheme of reticence is, ! t in itself, an advertising do || publicly poses and ironicall || refuse to be advertised.” 7 | considering the time and distance which separates her from us, but later, doubtless, || it will be geen that she, or her manager for | } her, is shrewd enongh to seck the nsnal, as | ; well as the unusual, means of wooing the q public. If there is any person in the world i who can be depended on when in Rome to | do as the Romans do, it is an actor. i i CLIMBING UP, Once more the variety theatre vindicates its claim to be, more than the ‘ Lyceum,” { | the training school of the profession in the advance of Harry Miner from the Bowery to A BROAD VIEW. Union Square Theatre, and from specialties ; < , ” to opera, Our Miners, Harrigans, Dixeys, Jones alw liked to say something sententions ar 1 exhaustive.—“ My dear,” here- 2 Mackayes make their position strong enough marked to his bri as they were leaving church. ‘* We have nmr nothing to look forward | t | not only to enforce the lesson that you can- | ¢0 but death or divorce.” WILLIAM WASIBURNE. || comicbooks.com