Judge — March 13, 1886 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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| Lawrence Barrett's next New York engage ment commences in August, when he will » H. Boker’s new play, produce Geo Gilbert's satiri aged,” fills the Madison Square theatre night after u s whose susceptibilities to humor ed to the very verge of satiatic aner in which the preted by Mr. Palmer's remark: ¢ company surpasses even its first very cessful representation here comedy, Mr. Edward Harrigan was evidently in his happiest mood when he wrote his last play, “The Leather Patch” being one of the wittiest and most agreeable pieces that has ever nated from the prolific pen of this facetious Mr. Harrigan has the faculty of doing things in a strikingly o and realistic manner. Important changes have been made in “Jack in the Box,” both in the play itself and in the company, and Miss Swain can now make her contemplated tour west with some prospect of realizing on her investment Miss Lucille Meredith, the b Yum-Yum of the Temp which has been singing Avenue theatre this week, is Miss Luey Ce of Northampton, Mass. She 1 wonderfully since her debut in * the Bijou two or th made under somewhat disc stances, If laughter begets obesity, then New York's corpulent population stands a very fair of-being considerably increased before spring, ously | me variety known only to a clear con- | science and a faultlessly adjusted liver. To | see the new comedy produced before a Scotch audience would be the climax of humor. The little stiffn in n that has been perceptible in “ Adonis” for the | 80 is subject to explanation. It is but a tem. porary difficulty, attributable to Dixey’s recent | encounter with the milkman, In the mean- | time the houses continue as large as ever. The ‘Gypsy Baron” is in its fourth week, | and still continues to attract audiences who are | notably large and abominably fashionable—in | taking their seats after the curtain has risen - | The latest and most original (not to say | reprehensible) advertising dodge adopted ying recently in rtised far 2,000 cats, to be brought to the stage door of the theatre at iven time. Thus inspired, the Chicago boy x. and on the day appointed had stipulated number of felines ready for The agent paid all the way from ten cents apiece for th imals, and on, tying ribbons around their necks the name of the troupe, set them at libert be frozen or starved to death. The scheme, howev as it was, did not work as ably a nticipated, ‘The press and uublic de severely and refused, t extent, to patronize the show, It is to be hoped that the i nt rtain troupe while J deliv three niousness of this prising young man will thaw out in time hereafter he will remember that humor and humanity are for next season, and th inseparable A play whose sole novelty lies in the absurdity of its title and in the hidcousness of its advertising matter is hardly the most prom: ising kind of property to invest in. ‘There are of these delectable‘ horse-pistol " tizations scouring the country at present mistaken idea that the arity has come to stay t that by and by will be to bear i characte Are Park; or, the He Lester Wall disappoint to experience one is goin! astonishi farcial comedy, “Central With Two Doors,” with in his original role of Wynd ham Otis, ‘was effected at Wallack’s on Mon day night, and made as pronounced a hit as it did at the time of its production in the old The two hundredth perform: Our G its wit The deli “One 1s” has been fixed upon as the date wal from the stage of the Lyceum. atful little ec son drawing PUSHING large houses in the meantime, and promises to run out th son in grand style. SAM SMALL, The Rev. Sam Small has a thin, white, thoughtful, dreamy face, with perhaps the s side of little Humbert es a combination of ty and pluck which is pretty sure to win in any undertaking, and we do not wonder at all that the ecclesiastical youth proposes to possess not only the earth but a large area of celestial mansion, And he has always been of firmness and self-confidence of t positive kind, During one session of congress he asclerk of a congressior mmittee, and in dia went fre an hour—or per iy—of convivial absent-mindedness } y ton to Atlanta, Ga., sup- x himseif to be merel posi on his way to his modest boarding-house with him a of valuable committee documents. «1 hardly accomplished his arrival when the chairman of the committee tel him, *W nt Where pers? We must report tod: numbe scratched his head and then telegra ight on with the reporting. Don't be us. D ud Tl endorse anything you say it to have been nd yet they say that the chair f his hair outand stamped around zh the floor instead anx man tore as if he w of down by the AMr. Bartlett of nd, becoming ill, surrendered his wife te family pastor, the Rev. Mr. Dyson: and afterward, recovering his health, proposed to resume the old rela tions, whereupon Mrs. Bartlett chloroformed him todeath, It seems to us that Mr. Bartlett deserved all he got, and by the same token the the rope they are lady and her pas going to get A CLAIM. "s my umbre ; I know it by the bl “Well, [hope you won't claim my pants, too: for th comicbooks.com