Judge — January 16, 1886 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE. but John Rieckaby isa wonderful mana: he will hardly be able to induce Le ' to continues on the road the interestir + the New York publ tor hea ofan und embryonic star walk through a whol with his hands in and Tess tod than a modern uve good names on | i and it i: owners that they ¢ they “ features ” of the pe s advertised. “Towlinan Blind is really us the of it last, just were al deal for } or even t to despair ly It suys smebody, the manazers, t tors, at, when a play succeeds with such a first la with tet of s a death-bed et that th-bed, where every time th lofty spirited down a seat in that superior way ner bang: of his (so expressive of a scorn for all mankind and theatregoers in particular) he drowns a lost word that is necessury for the un | standing of the dark deeds to follow—such mt act is particularly ingenious in frastrat- | j f its own existence, particularly : nartst like John Gilbert is wafted upon ne; he is such a ralistie dyi that quiet house could at all hear what he says. If a dram, will put upon a dying } man in the first act all the bunten of telling | of the family complications he finds necessity to his fiveact piece, then some ro bust dier—to coin a sword much needed in theatrical criticism—ought to be cast in the i part, somebody like Tom Keene or Mr. Freder | ick Paulding, who ha ly surrenders his spirits with a loud voice and a distinctness of articulation fitted to cope with the envious | the u Novelty is very well | ie is not it, and in this ease we should that the rose upon th ed impossible maid dusting the parlor in the presen “lordly villain, i all that the a not know that way, for the land lies the assist in draw jeune premier to that point of emoti pair and muscular activity which it is at once their pleasur heir duty to achieve and the object of the audience to witness. It might be argued that there is no parlor, no serving-maid, and no lordly villain i Hood. making any impression on the theatregoing man Blind,” but that is small matter: there public, What maintains etor’s popularity lot of people like Katie Bartlett, and the is one of those things that meditation will not di forth ess in the ti what age lunatic over and observation will not bring hin villain, hangin: thankful for the It is as mysterious as what wir what makes t well be the story place constitutes a good not been suitably east in Kyrle Bellew hh: Janausehek is old and ugly, and the bean any of the three she has been tried | monde wenal Some years age. in, and it’ might considersd evidence rshe had had her turn of t his fitness for his present. posi popularity: therein, that she is “coarse,” it is that he needs such carefully regulated « hot strange that this great actress ditions; but in the absence of anybody better relegated to those Plutonian: shades and in the presence of a great many much worse it is just as well to be thankful’ for th f sof Mr. Bellew, el, or wha wander such the rical ghosts as Jane should Mr ing like the Mr. Silas W. and Rose Modjeska Ron xirticularly as he he » the purpose nakes love isn like a man, The usual stage lover when his versely eriticised than any living bursts of led for isso taken up with | is more universilly pleasing than Salvini, his own great acting that he forgets all about her art by the best authorities is accounted the woman, and uses her as a property to ex- | well nigh faultless, her personality: is chart pend his caresses upon, with about as much | ing, she is in the prime of her powers, she sup: tion of real tenderness as there is sug: | plements her more serious powers with the voof real relish in his feints with th wooden chicken and the tea at the b Witchery of beauty, and she ceased king star her fter a suceessful mic quet A man who makes love well is vd season! Then she tried England certain to be a favorite with the ladies, and | such a triumph for the first two they it is, it is understood, who decide the fate | years that in hor mind: drew over of an aetor, While * He would be i Clark, wh cut all the her with this theat America forev« S connecting nl sting to know is om the tapis, hero comes over Great the reat of play the conqueri why Geor itain and is vil his into such stupidly ugly | her histrionie life end of two clothes, the looks handsome in one way | Yes again the spell was broken, the public nother is apt to be the villain’s best excuse | tired of the most « uetress in the world and turned Iack to old favorites being, and to diss 1 his | wciate him | looked Pa and the Countess Bo- ort e returned to this dernier resort most rward to new cherishec aa with coy theatrical tradit Then why | a brief coquett should this villain have such a dirty face ? Probably Mr. Clark ealls this foreign’ matte e fail >» and has eve ce been in tke-up, but hem akes if he thinks it takes dustriously chasin t nim dollar over all that to make him look a villain: the man | Ht ler tof country covered by “dl does not live whose countenance is so pure | Td” as technically understood, and for | Sai teed InNG Gauely nel piease nahin Te t part the dollar has had the best of it fit hin to play Lucifer hineelf This year, however, the race has become mor P tureand-turnabout of Tt should be ‘ounted a rather notable week | th p Modjeska going cor rably th Modjeska and Janauschek, teither of them app every two year. she ne able to discover a new world DOG STAR—" 1 SHOULD SMI comicbooks.com