Life — April 9, 1885 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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Aa Seen ZEUS R. IRVING and Miss Terry have closed a most suc- cessful season, and are soon to leave our shores, never to return professionally. We would remind Mr. Irving that never is a long day, and that he had best leave himself a loophole of escape by amending it to the Pinaforic “ Hardly " ever. . * . HE efforts of the Union Square Theatre to provide its patrons with good entertainment, at what are called popular prices, deserves unqualified commendation. That these efforts have been successful the popularity of the house during the present season will attest. Mr. Mackaye would do well to mark the growing sentiment in favor of lower prices, before he finds himself left high and dry on the Lyceum sands by being too high-flown in this respect. Two dollars a seat at the box-office for anything that is not “ English, you know,” is not relished by the thea- tre-going public of New York, and instead of being injurious to speculators, is apt to encourage them in their unprincipled traffic. We trust this gentleman, who has worked so hard for his art, and who has reaped so little reward, will see the | error of his ways before it is too late, and join the growing | band of reformers. * . . Te Corinne Opera Troupe has been filling the Acad- emy of Music to repletion with its vivacious interpre- tations of comic opera, “all for ten cents,” as it were. It is needless for us to add that obnoxious speculators are not here to be found, as reserved seats quoted at twenty cents are not profitable investments for men of their capacity for hard work. . * . HE Greatest Show On Earth is still the attraction at the Madison Square Garden. Mr. Barnum’s latest effort is remarkable for the great variety of natural and un- natural curiosities there exhibited, and the best way to give our readers any adequate idea of this great show is to enumerate the very few curiosities Mr. Barnum has not got. They are briefly as follows: A new joke for the clown ; an Englishman who has n't forgotten to bring his manners | with him to America; an invisible girl ; a copy of the 7rébune without some allusion to the rebel yell; and a real pretty dude with an idea. We are not surprised that the eminent showman has none of the above, as they are the rarest of the rare, and we must say that in other respects he is doing quite well. 207 HARD ON BROTHER WILLIAM. A RECENTLY probated will in Germany provides that “if Brother William marries in his old age he shall have nothing.” : Inasmuch as he must die before it can be decided whether he marries in his old age or not, and as, in the words of the poet, : “There is no pocket in the shroud,” Brother William has our sincerest sympathy. THE BuRGLARS’ MoTro—“ Let's go in and take some- thing.” EASTER, H, solemn Easter, how your rites have ceased, The milliner is mightier than the priest ; The bishop's mitre, parson’s gown, givé way To Easter bonnet and the ribbon gay. The lily pales before the Easter eggs, With shells as thin as Henry Irving’s legs. A Curious Fact in Naturat HistorRy—That so many fishes frequently go in seine. Mr. RUTHERFRAUD B. HAYES, it is said, has in press a volume of poems entitled, “ Rural Lays, or Ballads of the Brahmas.” AND now comes the rumored defection of the Mahdi's uncle! However, the weather is probably too warm for the False Prophet to need that spring overcoat. | My Law! IF VER AIN'T MR. BLOWER’S | CANE ALL MOFF EATEN, SILVER-HEADED