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This page is primarily **advertising and theater criticism**, not political cartoons. The main content is a theater review ("Judge at the Theatre," continued from page 1) discussing recent Broadway productions, including performances by John Drew, Lillian Russell, and Francis Wilson at Weber & Fields. The review critiques theatrical trends: Francis Wilson apparently dislikes comedic buffoonery but performs it because audiences demand it—a commentary on commercial theater compromising artistic integrity. The advertisements include Wilson Whiskey ("established 1823"), Beeman's Pepsin Gum, Judge Publishing's bound volumes, Vin Mariani (a tonic wine), and insurance/dinner pail products. There's no evident political satire on this particular page—it reflects Judge magazine's mixed format of theater commentary and commercial advertisements typical of late 19th-century publications.

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Establish WILSON WHISKEY. That’s All! ‘THB WILSON DISTILLING CO., Baltimore Md. ed (823. “JUDGE” AT THE THEATRE. (Continued from page 1.) who remember him, perchance, at Daly's, years ago, as Petruchio to Ada Rehan’s Katharine, But’ after this fine. spirited impersonation of Richard Carvel it will be hard ever to be satis- fied with him again in those conventional, cyn- ical, dress-coat parts which he has been doing of late years. This is the best play John Drew has appeared in and the best company he has ince Charles Frohman be- 1" him—and Charles reminds is now the ninth season. How tem- pus does fugit! fi Lillian Russell is a great acquisition to the Weber & Fields all-star company, and at the same time the association seems to have bene- fited Lillian herself, She is so radiantly pretty, and as Mrs, Waldorf Meadowbrook wears with such grace the gowns designed for her by Mr. Will Barnes, that New-Yorkers can only gaze and doubt their memories. De Wolf Hopper also finds perfectly congenial environment ; and to'see him and Miss Russell burlesque the kind of opera which they used to sing in dead ear- nest isa rare treat. That they are able to shine ut amidst such a galaxy of talent and beauty as appears in nightly conjunction on the stage of that music-hall is evidence enough of their CHEW Beeman’s i - The f Original Pepsin cum Cures Indigestion and Sea-sickness. } i All Others Are Imitations. ane Bound Votemes ) Every copy of Jupar for 1899 in two volumes, substantially bound in cloth, with’ gilt edging, express pre- paid anywhere in the United States, for $5. Send orders promptly. Jadge Pablishing Co., 110 Fifth Avenae, NEW YORK. distinction, For there-also are: Fay Temple ton, with an inexhaustible-repertory of coon- songs; Joe Weber and Lou Fields, creators of a new school of philosophy ; Charles Ross, who might be playing Romeo and Hamiet, but stays in this company just for fun; David Warfield as the only Dave, and John Kelly as his in- fmitable self; Bessie Clayton, the danseuse "Afrique ; while amidst a dazzling chorus such individualities as Josephine Allen, Bonnie Ma- ginn and Goldie Mohr trip about, occasjonally prattling a line or two, though as a rule it is their, faces and figures that talk. With such marionettes, all ready to be set in rhythmic motion to John Stromberg’s music, is it any wonder that the resident dramatist and joke- smith is living easy? All he has todo is to reel off a few hundred yards of fol-di-rol, label it * Fiddle-dee-Dee,” and there is your “* new | burlesque” for the season. Francis Wilson in his secret heart hates to the sense of clowning and buffoon- ery. He would rather browse in a musty old library, or read Horace and Eugene Field in sequestered New Rochelle, than split the ears of the comic-opera groundlings in the most up- roarious r6le that the genius of a Harry B. Smith or a Cheever Goodwin ever evolved. But busi- ness is business, and the public won't have Francis except in horse-play. Last season his serio-comic travesty upon ‘Cyrano de Berge- | rac was almost a Tailure. Now be has swung back to the old line and fairly wallows in the Partol Beelhoom, in The Monks of Malabar,” y Messrs, Cheever Goodwin’and Ludwig Eng- Hinder, at the Knickerbocker. Can we blame him for giving his clientle what tly it wants and-is willing fo pay Tor? Hardly, Tt is much the same with Mr. Goodwin in the matter of the trite and slangy book he has here written, and which falls off sadly after the first 9 ing him back in his own coin, we may hazard the remark that, in this instance at least, he is a better promiser than a-Cheever. Madge Lessing, who replaces Lulu Glaser of vivacious memory, has a delicate, winsome charm of her own, which long Casino training could not mar nor make coarse—though there are better schools than the Casino in which to learn to sing. ‘The gayety of the theatrical season would be incomplete without such weird and grotesque Piminetions as “Cupid Outwits Adam,” which tely opened—and shortly closed again—the Bijou theatre. But they never fail to turn op. either late in the spring or early in the fall, It (Continued om page 4) Telegram from Russia: “SEND TO ANITCHKOFF PALACE, ST. 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