Judge — October 10, 1891 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE FORTHCOMING DRAMATIC NOVELTIES. (Being a small collection of notices which will shortly begin their annual appearances in ical ISS FELECIA MONTROSE, who declaimed “ The Polish Boy” with such vigor at the benefit of the Green- room club the other day, is a native of Vermont. She has a large fortune in her own name and would be a per- petual “angel " to any company with which she might join forces. So many honored women of the stage have left the glitter of the lime-lights for the seclusion of wealthy homes, that such a perambulating gold mine as Miss Montrose should be secured with all promptness to the profession she adorns with such grace and beauty. The many friends of Mr. Montague Montague, whose photographic counterfeit adorns the boudoirs of the fairest in our land, have found a pretty morsel in the discussion of his new departure. Next November Mr. Monta- gue will be the manager-star of the strongest company money can get to- gether, and will present “Hamlet” in modern dress and appointments. He is backed by a syndicate of bankers, including the duke of Wellington, and already has begun rehearsals, it is said. UNCOMFORTABLE ALL AROUND. Herr Puatz—"‘Ain'd dey enough seads in dis car mitoud your skerveezin’ in here ?” . SLATTERY —"*Oi'm doin’ pinance this week fer th’ foight Oi had at Leahy’s ball.” Chicago is thoroughly devoted to the déama, if private advices are to be believed. A prominent manager wrote the other day that thirty-three new theatres are to be built in the windy city during the coming year, at an esti- mated cost of twenty million dollars. This will be welcome news to the large contingent of players now decorating the Strand and entertaining themselves with wind soup and air pie. Miss Sadie Mott, soubrette of the defunct “ Yellow Garter” company, recently returned from London, She denies emphatically the rumof that she is or was engaged to Lord Dolittle, whom she met at Buckingham palace, whither she was “commanded” by the queen. “‘I have discovered an old play supposed to have been written by Shakespeare,” she said the other day. “The scene is laid in Ireland during the war of the Roses, and will be adapted to modern requirements and localized by Johnny Watts, stage car- penter of the Hoboken zoological gardens. There are thirty-odd parts, and T have been compelled'to order five new dresses from Worth for the produc- tion, The chief costume I will wear in the seventh act. It is of heavy gold cloth, magnificently embroidered in crewel work: with tiny’ green shamrocks TRAINING. Why, Herkimer Aylesbury, what are you 2)" If I've got to do any more 1 to have cinders to do it on !" and harps. With this I wear a real diamond tiara, One of the special scenes is Fifth avenue at midnight with the street-cleaning department ‘at play.” The company will open at a Broad- way house early in October. CRITICISM. AYTER ain't what it used to be,” said Smike as the police removed him from the gallery for dropping peanuts on the heads of the people below in the orchestra. A KNOCK AT THE DOOR. St. Peter —“ Who's there ?” Female voice —"A dress-reformer from Chau- UNCONSCIOUSLY RIGHT. tauqua. Mr. Lerrrssy (the tramp, attending a reception at Farmer Ricketts ‘hen-coop) St. Peter—"Well, put. —"" Got 'm all, Swipes?” & . A Swires (/7 “* All but one ole gander. this Asbury Park bathing- 1, ketch him an’ come along. Goose-grease is mighty A SUMMER WRAPPER. suit on and come in.’ bomichoolksteay