Life — September 11, 1884 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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LI smile only behind the scenes, and at appropriate moments, and save the gas man the trouble of working the calcium. I wish furthermore that said gas marwould keep down his lights in Act 1st, Scene 2d, until those chairs and the table are in position. To see furniture meandering around without visible aid is interesting at a fifty cent spiritual séance, but does not add to the strength of a play. I wish the play afforded Mr. Mantell more scope. He has the curtain in the first act, and that is about all. From the time his eyesight is restored until the end of the play, his mis- sion is to hold other actors and enable them to die or faint in graceful positions. Perhaps Mr. Mantell’s physique im- pressed the managers with the idea that it would be too bad for him to have any “ fat.” He certainly gets none, at least after the first curtain. In Act 2d Miss Millward’s insanity entitles her to nearly all of that nutritive commodity; in Act 3d the villain steals what little there is; in Act 4th Mantell finds it impossible to refuse it to the dying Ceneri—acted ad- mirably by Mr. Flockton, by the way—and in the last act the “fat is devoured enormously by Miss Millward and Mr. Ferguson, the latter getting away with the last scrap of it as the curtain falls, Mr. Mantell makes heroic efforts to fight for “ fat" against these hungry odds, but it is no use. The play was not made for him. 1 wish the play were half as interesting as the book. it is not. much in melo-dramas which have not had a “ tremendous London success.” But After all, though, we have not been led to expect | FE RENDER. VNTO $CISSORS THOSE THIRGS WHICH ARE SCISSORS - A younG Aberdonian, on taking up a newspaper lately, turned to the column of the births and said ; ‘' I wonder if there is ony- body born that I ken,"—7id Bits. \ Ir is stated that Dr, William A. Hammond, author of ‘* Lal,” has four novels written, and intends hereafter to publish two a year. He should form himself into some kind of a ‘*side” li- brary company, and bring out one a week.—Norristown Herald. “Aw, pull down your vest,” said a slangy young man to a poor beggar who asked his aid. ‘Gimme one and I will,” re- plied the beggar sadly. P.S. This fable teaches us that_we Should help those who are g to help themselves,—Aferchan, Traveler. “ Now, then, lend me your ears awhile,” said the campaign ora- ator as he cleared his throat. ‘1 don’t see any necessity for that,” said a hook-nose man in the audience; “‘your own 4re big | enough."—Boston Post, “ My boy, are you one of the ‘Fresh Air’ children?” asked a lady of Courtland, N. Y., of one of the little fellows from New York who was enjoying a few days in the country at the expense of the Tribune's blessed fund, ‘ Well,” he replied, ** not so very d—d fresh."—Ed. “ Now Tus,” said the Western editor, as he read a poem | beginning, ‘Come and drink,” ‘this is the most inviting manuscript I ever received."—W. ¥, Journal, The Leisure Moment Series. LATEST ISSUES. CALLED BACK. By Hucn Conway, 25 cts. THE MISTRESS OF IBICHSTEIN. By Fr. Heng. 30cts. ERSILIA, By E, Frances Poynter. 2g cts. WHITELADIES. By Mrs. OLIPHANT. 30 Cts. LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP. By Mrs. Avex- ANDER. 25 cls. GADDINGS WITH A PRIMITIVE PEOPLE. | By W. A, Baie Growsan, yo cts. THE WELLFIELDS, By Jessia Fotnercit. yo cents, JONATHAN. By C.C. FRasex-Tyture. 30 cts. | THE BABY’S GRANDMOTHER. By L. B: Watrorp, 30 cts, MR, SMITH. By L. B, Watroxn. HENRY HOLT & CO., New York. GRADY & FINE Designers and No. 719 SixtH A ASKIN OF BAUS Dr, “* Dio Lewis's Monthly is the grandest Magazine we have ever seen.” Normal Teacher & Examiner: es well as wit dott, PURIFIxS Send 6 cents in stamps for a sample copy Dio Lewis's Monthly $2.50 per year. 25 cents a copy. For SALE BY ALL DEALERS. Agents wanted. Send for terms. FRANK SEAMAN, Publisher, $42 BROADWAY, Luma fa ‘or tale | eareneetomae New York. tiie io RENNER & COMPANY, DRALERS IN EVERY DESCRIPTION OF PICTURE FRAMES. FACTORY, 218 W. gad STREET. 'Y 18 AJOY FOREVER. elix Gouraud’s of tbe es you Bctope Beware ot Reward for arrest and proot of any McKEEVER, LATE. | Cavanagh, Sanford & Co., Merchant Tatlors and Importers, 16 West 23d Street, ARTS. Manufacturers ot ve., New York. | Opposite 5th Ave, Hotel, NEW YORK. All the latest London Fabrics regularly imported, GEORGE MATHER’S SONS, PRINTING [NK, 60 Joun St., NEw York. This paper is printed with our cut ink, oss'S THEN OVAL jourand’s Cream! as ‘One bot x BELFAST IRELAND ‘Also Poudre RB ala Bond 8 'N, Ye MANUFACTORY “A'N ‘Aempeoig ef ‘SSOU ‘H AUNTH comicbooks.com