Life — January 24, 1884 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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tone, under a pale and glittering snow. But it was worth while shivering a little for such a good cause. The Music Hall is a spacious and pretty theatre. It was crowded with handsome and well-dressed women on this occasion, and with men who could appreciate the women, Amateurs—especially the fashion- able amateurs—seem to work very hard for the pleasure of ap- | pearing upon the stage. Some of them act a dozen times during | the winter, and many oftener. They are always getting up some new theatrical enterprise. However, the business amuses them, it provides amusement for their friends, and it does a great deal for charity. It is a singular fact, however, that they are not | necessarily bad actors. ‘The Romance of a Poor Young Man,” for instance, was presented with fine taste and intelligence by this particular company—Mr. Hill, Mr. Bird, Mr. Saunders, Mr. Cunard, Mr. Townsend, Mr. Johnson, Mrs. Speiden, Mrs. Potter, Mrs. Teall and Miss Davenport. This is what would be called, in serious criticism of the theatre, a strong cast. Mrs. Potter is a charming and sympathetic woman, and her Mar- guerite was an interesting performance ; Mrs. Teall was not less successful, in a very different way, as Nellie Helouin, But it is | impossible in this brief space to distribute praise to all these bright performers. No one, I am sure, was bored by this amateur presentation of Feuillet’s gushing romance. ~ * * * HE revival of the ‘‘ Love Chase” took place at the Star Theatre on Monday evening, January 21, under the direction of Harry Edwards, stage manager. The company which supported Miss Emma Latham, the young Calfornian actress, who made her New York debut, are mainly drawn from Wallack’s Theatre. Effie Germon essayed the Widow Green, and Wilmot Eyre, Waller. Barton Hill appeared as Wildrake, one of Lester Wallack’s favorite parts in his younger days. The performance was creditable and the young debutante was favor- ably received. > LIFE: RENDER: VNTO SCISSORS THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE $CISSORS + SUPAVL To THE FENIANS- IV. 446 A NEW YORK plumber has married a milliner. Everything tends to consolidation and monopoly these days.—Lowell Citizen. THE man who began keeping a diary at the first of the year is still keeping it, but he now uses the pages as cigarette papers.—Philadel- phia Chronicle. Do y’r think, young man, that just because it is leap year you are | going to be snapped up right away. The girls want a chance before | they leap.—Zowell Citizen. Our of 955 samples of French wines recently analyzed only ninety- five were found to be genuine, the rest being more or less adulterated with unwholesome drugs. We challenge an analysis of 955 American hogs that would not show a more favorable compatison.— Hartford "ost. A New York man paid a big price for the first copy of Columbier’s “Sarah Barnum,” expecting to find in it something very improper. Before he had read a dozen pages he threw down the volume with an air of disgust, and resumed the perusal of a Chicago paper.—Norris- town Herald. AN old Negro and his son called on the editor of a newspaper. “T wants my son ter work in yer office, sah.” “What can he do?” “Oh, at fust he kaint do nuthin’ but edick yer paper; but arter a while, when he learns mo’ sense, he ken black yer boots’an’ sweep de flo’."_Arkansas Traveler. A LITTLE four-year-old boy in Hartford, says the 7imes, was asked once by his uncle if he wanted some flowers, and replied: “Ido n't care if Ido.” The uncle said: ‘I never give flowers to boys who ‘do n't care.’” Whereupon the urchin responded: ‘Ido n't care if I do—but I do care if Ido n't.” He was more than four years old.— New York Graphic. “No,” said the young man to the ticket seller. “Ido n't want an end seat ; I want one in the middle of the row. I usually go out two or three times during the performance and always between acts, and half the pleasure I get at the theatre is in the sensation I make in passing in and out, you know. No, no; no end seat for me; a fellow might go out and come in a dozen times and nobody would notice him.”—Boston Transcript. Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. Have now ready their AMERICAN NOVEL SERIES. A Latter Day Saint; Being the story of the Conversion of ‘Ethel Jones, related by herself. 16mo., $1.00. Cavanagh, Sanford & Co., Merchant Tailors and Importers, | | 16 West 23d STREET, | Opposite sth Ave. Hotel, All the latest London Fabrics regularly imported. New York. Dry Special, Brut. pu Virrerace George Washington, By John Habberton, author of ‘‘ Helen’s Babies,” 16mo. (Lives of American Low rates given.” Worthies Series), $1.25. Write for Particulars. :,| _ Subscriptions and advertisements received f tor Lire and Other first-class publications, Cc. M. Room 3, 186 DEevonsuire Sr., Boston, Mass., U.S. A. 49 BROADSE CANTY, comicbooks.com