Life — February 26, 1885 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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T is denied that a bill will shortly be presented in Con- gress to amend a certain proverb to “A Fair Exchange | Is No Bribery.” . ‘ * We. are pleased to announce that Miss Anna Dickinson - will ere long produce a revised version of Shake- speare’s immortal tragedy, Hamlet. Its title is to be Hamlette, the Melancholy Dame. The cast, we understand, is to be as follows : The Melancholy Dame.........++.+++ +++.Miss Dickinson, Ghostess .. -Sara Bernhardt. Clawdius . -Sara Bernhardt, Polonaiseius, the Queen’s Chambermaid + Dr. Walker. Horatianne Susan B. Anthony. Ophelia... seeeee ..-Henry Irving. An especial feature of the performance will be an allegori- | cal representation of the ‘“ Freedom of the Ballet,” prepared , for this occasion by the late Suffrage Convention. Some trouble was made in the troupe by Mr. Irving’s en- gagement as Ophelia, as Miss Dickinson objected to being supported by a man, but the managers of the enterprise finally overcame her scruples, and Mr. Irving will appear. HE latest fashionable dress in Paris for ladies is the “Chimney Sweepers’ Costume.” It is made of coarse woolen goods, torn and spotted, with a large patch sewn on the front. Americans may congratulate themselves that this is French and not English, for if it were the latter we would shortly see our dude young men clad in the “ Costume du Tramp,” con- sisting of a very tired looking hat; a coat buttonless and tattered; trousers trimmed with marks of dog-teeth, and picket-fence braid. On the feet a golosh and patent leather pump would complete a most picturesque, though painful, costume. . . . N exchange announces that Mr. Cleveland never learned a trade. This probably accounts for his difficulties in Cabinet- making. . . . GERMAN histologist states that we have a new brain every sixty days. We presume defendants in breach of promise suits will take advantage of this scientific fact, and cause a “change of mind" act to be passed. . * . HAT with ex-Governor St. John accused of bribery and the steamer St. John destroyed by fire, this illustrious water-following family is having extremely hard luck, AFTER THE WEDDING The Chief Usher Solus, HE other fellow—odder beau Ne’er danced attendance here below. Mine were the gleaming bolts that flew From those twin firmaments of blue . To set a hermit’s heart aglow. Multeri ne credas, and so From Juvenal to Rochefoucault The maxims. Her decoy, I drew The other fellow. Still shall the Fates content bestow With cigarette and curacoa; And yet I can’t regret I threw That most unlucky lucky shoe That hit with such a vicious blow The other fellow. CuRTIS GUILD, JR. WHAT relation is the Door Matto the Door ?—Step Father. ENFANT TERRIBLE: “Say, Mr. Snobby, can you play cards?” Snossy: “ Why, no, Johnny, I can’t play very well.” E. T.: “ Well, then, you 'd better look out, for ma says if Emma plays her cards well she ‘ll catch you.” POCKET BIOGRAPHIES. JOHN LESTER WALLACK. Born in New York in 1819. M R. WALLACK is an actor and the manager of a thea- tre. As an actor he is no longer what he was. Once a light comedian—and the very best we had—he is now a low comedian. He still plays YOUNG Marlowe. As a manager he inherited traditions with his theatre from his father. He has now a new theatre, but he cannot get new traditions. It is the gricf of his life that he was born in America, but he tries to forget it, and in spite of all temptations to belong to other nations, he remains an Englishman. . EDGAR FAWCETT. Born in New York in 1847. R. FAWCETT is a poet and a novelist and a dramatist. Asa poet he is the author of “ Pant-I-see and Fashion,” and of several hundred tons of sonnets. As a novelist he began with a tale called “ Purple and Fine Linen,” but the critics discovered that, in spite of the purple patches, it was rather dirty linen, From the title one would infer that “ A Hopeless Case" is autobiographical. His plays have scarcely enough sense in them to keep them sweet, and even the author was candid enough to call one of them “Sixes and Sevens.” He is so acutely sensitive that it is said he is about to conclude an engagement with a syndicate of dime museums to exhibit himself as the Man born without a Skin. comicbooks:com