Judge — January 30, 1886 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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Ty tre with Miss M, Leah is Mr. Pauldi the atest troubl with Mr. Paulding is Mr. Alfred Thomps Mr. Thompson nally overawed us by the statement that he had been: dl with | Irving in his production. of © and Juliet,” and now it must be admitted that it is a pity he is not still under such silutary influe wes. His toe luxur needs the toning Lyceum, With all his water the rtainly ttl Jor paintings, his Ijectives of his advertisements he has cer- us some of the m ugly costumes sutfered pecially His first two by, and upon por wreaked his mis costumes as Romeo made him look like a choice bit of confectionery, and as Rudolph he only needs a string to the top of his head to ec aided faney plete his resemblance to a first-class jumpin, jack, and, worse still, to a Jewish jumping k. Not that it is intended to hold Mr Thompson responsible for the Hebraic char acter of Mr, Paulding’s countenance: but that character is the city to an appearance in eve un suite a tragedy as t Mr. Pauldi not a Jew does not materially help the matte though if he would insert in the bill a line to that effect, substantiated by a short dium of his genealogy. the public's faith in those family complications it might stre which result in Leah's sorrows and Miss Mather'’s opportunities. It is impossible to. tell how an actor plays a part which his ap- is every moment falsifying. He is sso badly that you can is. But, as a go person who sin not tell what his voi¢ there were any dignity or fitness in Mr. Pauld his Rudolph might add to the rnestness and sincerity whieh ess, if his Romeo won him, Her Leah shows Miss Mather to greater ad vantage than did her Juliet, In her costumes Mr. Thompson has done something to sustain his claims to artistic eminence and to over. throw his detractors, a fate his detra undoubtedly meet with itude, Miss Mather makes a striking picture and shows a weird power of hate and vindictiv unmatched in kind or deg rivals. But after all the stake an evening's entertainment upon, and how glad the house is ev t to. weleon the one touch of diversion in the Doctor's - ary things to JUDG K. drunken dance. We are, undoubtedly per | the sixteenth century with the finesse, not to | | verse and fri generation, and it is to! say finik and place is, as has comedy we are giving our allegiane had bee y pretty show, but Probably it is in the desire to take this tide | #!so 4 singular! and in| i |] at its flood that Modjeska is experimenting | OWS Performance, « with Donna Di It is safe to predict blot of © that with this all ly she will never | Corse, very and very in. || T get beyond the experimental stage. ‘Donna | eniows. It eseapes i y aod is not at 1 Diana” is dull, and to a play and nawghty | limmoral, and ifany one likes his fun of this people say tot peronnoie. viee ie mone | hearty kind he is net likely to get it bette \iperdonable: I¢%s too gooil to be a sthinulating | DOrif he can put himself in harmony with the Nid itis not gon enough ty, sPiriLof the thing will he be shocked | aes ech, | Pranks of plain people who have no del LL Nal sng Me ates the | to lose by their free frolies, When it cor | eee Thane every | however, to seeing dainty, high-bred young j little comedy in Modjeska’s part, and exquisite | £etlewomen such as Mistress as she is in gayety it is not within the scope | (78 Page are at Daly’s made to | of her methods t und (ears amis in thene social diversions, th ing. So that the spectator is impressed with the pity uch exquisite. suscepti ff this shock isonly broken in so far as | | fee oe gael BR bee nal te their real natu tised; and in so far as her into some good old-fashioned | their nature is disguised is the spectator hope- | | to assotinte her witha dying chillor| lesly bewildered as to what all this commo- || a faithless lover, or impending death, so that | tion ts about, ib other he may have his sympathies delightfully | Shakespe granted stirred for this charming woman whose griefs | Hat every luted ‘with the expur- abdoel adits gated passages, and through remembrance of what cannot be said people are expected to un Mr, Daly's latest effort to amuse the public | derstand what would be quite unintelligible to ismore suc His entertainment called | the nninitiated The Merry Wives of Windsor” is a very pretty show, though it rather cruelly st Perhaps after all this is the best that ean be | | and pushes into the background a certain done under the conditions, and we had best be | | William Shakespeare who originated the title humbly thankful for what of Shakespeare we | and various of the lines Mr. Daly uses. Mr. ean get, especially when we anything so | Daly's idea seems to be that the publie would good as Mr. Lewis's Master er. That | like to sce a comedy under a classical name, | most men play villtins well has been explained though it would not at all endure too faithful) by the eyniea mes & rendition of elusical comic coarseness, | natural to them; but if this reasoning were Probably this idea is correct, and the result of ally expect | the effort to harmonize the rollicking fun of be ully portrayed. But, THE LONG LOOKED FOR INVENTION. | | \] | | comicbooks.com