Life — January 25, 1883 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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ROOTES a -LIFE- AT ManaGers Daty anp WALLACK are at present playing old English come public, before they force down their throats the more highly spiced “Serge Panine” and “ The Silver King”. I straveD into Daly’s the other evening and saw Colley Cibber’s delightfully impossible “She Would and She Would Not,” done by Mr. Daly’s “clever young people,” in light wigs, in spite of the fact that the scene is laid in Spain, where it is popularly supposed that brunettes prevail. This play was evidently se- lected to show how much better Mr. Daly’s emotional soubrette can act the man than did Modjeska and Mrs. Langtry. Without going into any comparisons, Miss Rehan gave a delightful impersonation of the gay young masquerader, and was a far greater success as a dashing Cavaliero than John Drew, who seemed pain- fully conscious of his short allowance of trowsers, and who acted in little spasms in three time. Mr. WALLACK has made a better choice of a play; and Goldsmith’s ever vernal comedy, “She Stoops To Conquer,” is being thorough Wallacked (which ought to, but does not, imply that it is Wall-ack-ted*) by the Wallachian company. ‘The veteran himself takes the part of old—I beg pardon—young Marlow, and while his acting has lost none of its finesse, it does take a little stretch of the imagination to see the bashful gal- lant in our youth of sixty summers. John Gilbert is always good; Madame Ponisi, as usual, quite artifi- cial; Rose Coghlan wrongly cast; Adela Measor bright and vivacious, and Elton an amusing Zony Lumpkins. Joun T. Raymonp has another good part in another bad play. The Grand Opera House is a big theatre, but it won't hold all the people who want to see Mul- berry Sellers as a Western Editor. “McSor.ey'’s InFLation ” has proved a beneficent measure for the treasury of the Comigue, It is to be hoped that Harrigan will take this success to Hart, and that their next venture will be just as much of a frolic and a little more of a play. Cuar.es R. has indeed proved a Thorne in the flesh to Manager Stetson, who, after having billed him as a star in the “Corsican Brothers,” found him to be but an ignis fatuus. Always equal to every emergency, the great manager augmented the Variety Contingent, and the play is still drawing crowded houses. PENDEXTER Nips, *Positively last appearance of this pun. AN engrav- ing of a statue in plaster, by Claude Marie Devenet, en- titled, “The Mother,” is published in L’Art. The mother is re- & presented as holding in her lap“ baby, cradle and all.” The cradle was ap- parently made out of acham- pagne basket, but —unfortu- nately for the purposes of the advertiser, the picture was taken from the wrong side of the statue, and it does not appear wheth- er the cham- vartchell pagne was thatofMumm, What ts the young girl doing? or Piper Heid- Sug 1s MEASURING THE INTENSITY OF sick or New THE YOUNG MAN’S PASSION, What does tt amount to? CIRCUMFERENCE 47 INCHES, 60 BUDS. Jersey. “A Woman’s Reason"’—Be- cause 1do! = —— == =o A PROSPECTIVE JUNKET. 73 AMA !” said the young man, “I am not going to work any more.” ‘ “Ah, my son !" shrieked the agonized parent, “do you intend that I shall take in washing ?” “No, indeed, dear mama ; I shall have no need to work, How can you doubt me! Have I not often told you that, while ‘you had a crust, I would share it with you ?” “Yes, noble boy, you have,” sobbed the proud parent. What is more unsacrificing than a mother’s love ? “T have struck a bonanza,” continued the youth, fondling his golden moustache. “The East River Bridge. It has cost $17,000,000, Every day I shall go to it, break off a piece of the precious metal of which it must be composed, send the bullion to the mint,and re- ceive gold coin of the United States in return. Cheer up, dear mother, dark is the hour before the dawn.” Idee Napoldontenne —Whatever your hand finds to “scoop,” “ scoop it in.” comicbooks.com