Judge — February 6, 1886 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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10 JUNG) AWE bape Pray. As everybody finds occasion to say, the mantle of Miss Vokes does not fall on Miss Castleton, Little as it seems to be believed. there are limits to the charm of inanity, and “Crazy Patch ” possesses those limits, — What more unmistakable, in fact hideous, subject for -alled comedy could be mental aberrati at the hosen, for instance, It was tried a year ar by young Sothern, sutticed, its ghastliness wa gh to chill the blood ofa tailor’s dummy. If there be a line to bedrawn in horrors, this maniac is a shade less repulsive than that. But comedy! The gods forbid that in this era of crazy patches we become so far corrupted as to make this If people like this sort of thing they have the right to pay for it and get it, doubt less; but don’t let them dignify their tastes with the name of comedy. Funny is doubt less a relative term, and’ the prevailing char acteristic of the dr the hour is that they are funny somebody, doubtless, dismal as t enou mista funny to y are to others less ~The Guv'nor ” at Wallack’s is not exactly in the spirit of pure comedy, but compared to the popular variety it is classical, It was put on for an announcedly short run, but its drawing powers still are far beyond those of the more ambitious efforts of the later Wal ul. The expectation of a sh apparent in the toilets of the ladies, wi have evidently wasted no milliner’s bills upe parts. In the e of new fort with a smooth of the old Jd not be misp after all, this entire ab: clothes is not without ch minds of the ladies in th those on the sta y attention to such details of the the acting. ratte, iron on ced. But, fort about mus; it so frees the house, aswell regardless and it suits his s\ than the sweet simplicity * Hoodman Blind.” With all th villainy which Mr. Clark ha tic entertainments of | JUDGK. sain be a nic ven Fred Wand’s ** Dam ma Abbott's “Il Trow: rally they are. to und Pythias ” nor ed it, There is aman has been ty-fiv where a nice young fellow for twe r thirty is not an Tom's years hi y falls in the way of it, and in Harlem, or in’ Third it is rather te k him to learn the is sure to be on the ks The Bowery or in Williamsburg: li poor, if Clark is permitted to be th it he not always with us it is 1 far off. this fact becomes more noti But, anyway, the person who is wa on. Like several other people of this same sort should go to see K that crucial period in his carer when a to in the “Sea of lee.” She is hovering about may precipitate him inte the New York cireuit in tha no longer afford to be as good as he can be in chestnut, with the sune old ic those things t youth, In The Guy promising his profess his genius full play commonly. Md parts, so cerful old the same p the Rubicon of wintry sea, the sume palm trees and tropical he, without ¢ skies that respectively thrilled with terror and soothed with beauty the childhood days of P present mature generition. The ice is a yal standing, ean and it seintillates un. htfal and in in places, t patist hasen- sky, and the palm trees, mprehensive perience of botanists, are ation of sim. has furrowed the vests a riched with little stutter witha charmi plicity and savoir faire. Miss Robe here ntrary to the ex- ssing into the sene sof the tight of ditional b. nd the and yellow; but these m: years only create sympathy between th gain shows an unusual characterization and plays y that is lamentably rare less frequent amo women than men. Even her clothes have a noticeable fidelity to. the probabilities of the spectator; and if ity for delicate paitent fire-proof cor nation aurora borealis, with a simple sit which has a line on the bill and is ingeniously arnanged to show all the wrinkles and t the back drop. Then Harry Lee is a new ion. A realism that allows the spectator | terrible villain, while the urbane and d to lose sight of her effort to look pretty with- | fied Charlie about in the short out in reality failing to-ach urtistic effects Chemise of Barahas with all the rselute isin restful contrast to the impossibly exquisite | Avety of the din ling simplicity and elaborate) linen in | The star suffers the woes of Louise which we are accustomed to see virtuous | the y disport itself through all the vicissi- | Ogarita with the} f the modern drama | Woman who Ic customary coldness between merit and success, and the aud sand stamps its feet in all the appointed places with that | intelligent comprehension of its duty: that only comes with long practice therein, in any acting, and is ¢ sin situ: evenson skip nthe hot. stones. and skips f uzh the inexplicable — eccentricities ul dusoneian » recognized — thy When people are so bent on finding the funny they should not neglect th visits of certain matu xlramas larly the scenic weeps and lat recurri familiar and well. The melodrama, particu Jodrama, as portrayed by the travellin roop” and embellished by their own props, is a joy that bankrupts the power of burlesque, Of course, in this line | Gays Don nothing can ¢ UncleTom’s Cabin.” | this to the The strong ( ccent usual in this| dent by J ancient African, the monotonous and nasal ie piety of Eva, who is invariably either impos- sibly big or impossibly small, the consistent inopportunity of the appearance of the jubi- tried om Payne T. K. Donayin says Henry B. bought his Senatorship and) Mr. Payne vin isa liar and a drunkard. Add tempted slaughter of the Presi in R. MeLean and it will be seen | that the Democratic party of Ohio is consider: ably democratic What is n the wsthetic sense? THE APPLICATION OF HANDS TO HEADS. comicbooks.com