Life — January 1, 1885 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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ee RAPID TRANSIT. FAST MALE. ELEVATED. CHICAGO ROOT. posed that English actors can understand American charac- ter. Although, for example, Mr. Buckstone and Miss Measor are quite sufficient, it is obvious that they do not understand the- parts they are play- ing; they are English and the characters are American ; and Mr. Carleton’s light comedy suffers from this translation. Mr. John Gilbert appears to the best advantage, being an American, and the nobility, the dignity and the sincerity of his truly beautiful performance it would be difficult to overpraise. Miss Rose Coghlan displayed her usual vehement emotion, but with more restraint, and therefore to greater advantage, than usual. Mr. Harry Edwards was delightfully genial as the traditional family physician and friend; and Miss Helen Russell was pretty and piquant as a pretty and piquant widow, B. M. R. DIXEY is to be congratulated upon his great suc- cess in Adonis at the Bijou. He is now running on his second hundredth performance with very little prospect of stopping there. . We offer our readers this week some impressions of his clever performance, and recommend all who enjoy hilarity to make their holidays more hilarious by spending a few hours with Adonis at the Bijou, where everything from Irving to the country maiden whose “ theratical experience has been confined to ‘ comical and tragical’” may be had at short no- tice. The new song, “It’s English, Aw, English,” is alone worth the price of admission. COIFFURES FOR ‘84-85. J ADIES' hair dressing will be somewhat more becoming — this winter than last. The correct color for the sea- son is a sort of shrimp red with an occasional straw of couleur naturelle by way of variety. If, however, the nat- ural color should tend toward old-gold the red should not be too pronounced as this combination would give a lurid parrot and monkey appearance which in good society is con- sidered bad form, The adjustable bang, in vogue last win- ter, is used this season on the nape of the neck and is trained over the collar in Langtries which may be decorated with ribbons to suit the artistic tastes of the wearer. The nat- ural hirsutes at the base of the brain, which, in the absence of a scientific denomination, are termed ‘ Tweakers " are curled tight and serve the useful purpose of holding the bang in position. On the forehead the favorite style will be a waving switch. It need not be waved too vigorously, of course, as such a performance might be attended with dis- astrous results. Ringlets have gone out and it is hoped they will stay out and in their place fluffy curls running from the centre of the part tothe lobe of the ear are the correct things for cold days. As for ornaments for the hair, tortoise shell combs with three teeth and a back board shaped like a target twenty-one inches high by seventeen broad, are the style for the theatre, while at the skating rink the most popular style of coiffure will be the old-fashioned water-fall held in place by visible nets and sustained by any soft material of good stuffing qualities. As to the quantity of hair, this is left to the wearer's own fancy. A coiffure, however, which reaches over five feet from the eyes in a perpendicular direction is not considered de rigeur by our best families. SUITABLE NEW YEAR'S GIFT. OR a young lawyer fond of music—a pipe and a case. For grandpa—a tidy for his bald head embroidered : “ Honor the draught.” For your girl's small brother—a Rugby foot-ball with a small can of dynamite. For your girl—“ yourself.” For a college professor—“ embroidered suspenders.” For Mr. Blaine—* The Campaign Pucks.” For your “ governor "—your unpaid bills. For your mother-in-law—a bunch of Jacqueminot roses and Vedder's “ Rubaiyat.” * For your tailor—a slug in the head (Boston style). For your doctor—the pills you did not take. For your wife—a blotter, cash book and ledger for house- book-keeping. For your son in college—a box of salt. For your daughter in society—Thackeray’s “Book of Snobs.” * (This variation of the treatment of mothers-in-law by LiFE should call down the gratitude of that large and much abused class of females, who were all pretty girls themselves once and very fine-looking women now, most of them. (4// rights reserved.)—ED.] comicbooks.com