Judge — September 5, 1885 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE. COULDN'T STOMACH ‘* THE COUNTRY GIRL.” Mr. Daly’s company back from fresh con- quests on the Pacific coast, will re-enter here the middle of this month. In this country and Europe these matchless travel- ing play-actora have contradicted Hamlet’s assertion that ‘ their residence, both in repu- tatition and profit, was better both ways.” It is curious to note that the theatre-going world in Sun Francisco, where Daly's com- pany is very popular, marvelled mach at his undertaking, “The Country Girl,” which they regard as rather broad for his severe taste, even after he edited, for the sanction of modern decency, Wycherly’s vile lines out of all recognition. Even with Miss Rehan’s delicate acting, the play was not a hit on the other side of the Rockies. The Argonant said a pleasant thing about her in the letter-writing scene, so well known to New Yorkers. ‘* Who that saw her will ever forget the pretty, petulant, long-locked boy, writing a bitter letter to a waiting lover under stress of a guardian’s dis pleasure? The picture should be put on canvass, She is as versatile in looks as in THE END O° THE manner and a train of pretty surprises in anything. Bless her bright face, how sorry we shall all be to miss it.” San Franciscé loss is New York’s gain. WHEELOCK, AND NO MORE. Joseph Wheelock’s lute engagement at The Star was a brilliant affair—so far as Joseph Wheelock was concerned. A better ‘* Mercutio” we have never seen. He com- prehended the part and made it compreben- sible tothe audience. His ‘‘ Mercutio” was not merely a man of many words and little | sense, as the character is often interpreted. | What some actors mistakenly reveal, Mr. Wheelock suggested, viz: the satirical and moral elements in the jesting railer’s char- acter. The young English lady who had the title role can not conscientiously be termed an actress. Her only claim to that name was an extensive wardrobe and an ordinarily zood figure and not ungraceful movement. Jer conception of the roles she essayed was unworthy the judgment of a pert school miss. Imagine the lovely and beloved Juliet petulantly stamping her foot in petty | rage in answer to her old nurse’s call. Perhaps Miss Moore may express herself thus pantomimically in hal shot coniiders the strong points in order to save her vocal powers from undue taxation. But, we, would say, they are not worth the saving. A harsher, more uncontrollable, indistinct voice we have never heard. As we listened to the clash of consonant upon consonant, as she laboriously delivered them, we could but recall the old saying that vowels are the flesh and consonants the bones of the lan- guage. And here was the uninviting spec- tacle of a skeleton with many abnormal bones publicly exposed. STILL A CORRECT VOCAL SCHOOL Wa STED. That the English language is the most | master the English language. | speaking, we are incapable of expressing | beautiful and can be made one of the most musical languages in the world, we firmly believe. We cannot have a distinctive English stage or a truly cultured society until we Generally what we feel; asthe French would say, we are without Tart de dive. Many public speakers, actors and singers would seek this apparent necessary training of the voice, but they dare not; they rather bear the evils they have than fly to mal-education they know not of. Here arises the demand for a school of vocal culture based upon physiological laws. Many systems claim that Sasis now; but an actor should possess sufficient scientific knowledge to determine whether certain practices are injurious to his voice or not. The easiest way is always the best. In no case should the voice be used in speaking or practice where fatigue is occasioned. Fa- tigue is the signal flag of danger. In fact, fatigue from using the voice is as unnatural as fatigue from seeing. ‘rue vocal culture does not strain any muscle or organ; it is as much a mentat a8 a physical effort.. The mind must control and direct the placing, management and quality of the voice. DEBTOR AND CREDITOR. Who dodgeth us, and corners turneth spry — If, catching him, as ‘twere, upon the fly, Who telleth us a most ious liet Ye Debtor! Who folleweth from pillar unto post, , nit redhot for us—a ‘roast "— ” or cise “giveup the ghost?” Ye Creditor! According to moraliets a happy state of mind is the best state for aman to be in. But after fully canvassing the situation we would be best satisfied with an estate. HAIN’T COMIN’ YIT ON’T talk of the millennium! This world has got to hum, If it's a-gittin’ somewhere near The blessed Kingdom Come. WORLD How things is going now. An’ make no end of row. About their fists and si To take some horrid prize;— And do just what they dare, An’ money takes the chair:— (0, poor folks feel it bad— It makes me bilin’ mad!);— An’ sin than common sense, While Capital is cursing hard At Labor on the fence:— While people talk of markets full An’ “surfeit” in An’ underneath T wish you would To ith “The blessed Kin, The wretched starve to deat I tell you you're a sniv'lin’ fool! a breath their very eyes n't come— your talk about gdom Come.” D. 0. T. My stars! you never stop to think ‘There is fraud enough to sink us all While fightin’ men go round and brag And knock on all sides, right an’ left, While roughs set city laws aside While honest men must stand apart While nations grow! an’ fight an’ snarl For taxes must be riz, of course, While beer is more than liberty, New Jersey orchards are now full of plumers Buvr-risnino—try to catch on during dull times, if you are out of a job. OVER A THOUSAND new vari- ties of apples have been insti- gated within a few years, but we'd give them all for one old- fashioned Spitzenberg such as grewon that big tree near the corner of the barn, you know, They’ve “run out.” ARCH HOLOGISTS THINK that they have discovered very ancient origin for modern crino- line. Hesoid warned young men against women who make their garments protrade be- hind. It is well known, also, that Helen of Troy got up a great bustle. An Economical Deodorizer. “ Cremationists have found by experiment that a human body of average size can be entirely burned in a common stove in forty hours without disagreeable smell.” ment on the influence and eMluence of some people while alive, that it would be well to use a lot of ’em to kindle kitchen fires, as }a measure for purifying the air. “This is so much an improve- comicbooks.com