Life — September 24, 1885 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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178 -LIFE: M ISS ROSE COGHLAN has at last become etherealized as a star, and her upward flight was witnessed by an admiring audience at Niblo’s last week. The medium through which Miss Coghlan’s stellar career was com- menced was “Our Joan,” a somewhat sensational produc- tion, in which Miss Coghlan’s wealth of emotion is brought into full play. So favorable was the impression of last Mon- day's performance, however, that a tendency to bewail the fact that Miss Coghlan is no longer a fixture at Wallack's Theatre has been developed. . . . ISS MINNIE MADDERN made a decided hit at the Lyceum Theatre, in Steele Mackaye's adaptation of Sardou’s “ Andrea,” which he has called “In Spite of All.” He might have named it “In Spite of Janish,” as he pro- duced the play, notwithstanding the fact that Mme. Janish had previously appeared in Leander Richardson's adaptation of it, to wit, “ Anselma.” . . . HERE is a rumor that Gilbert & Sullivan's next opera will either be founded upon Hindoo subjects, in the same manner as Japanese matters are dealt with in the “ Mikado,” or upon the peculiarities of the Americans in London. Both topics ought to afford Mr. Gilbert ample food for satirical manipulation. Alan Dale. THE INTERNATIONAL YACHT RACE, FTER a week's vexation of spirit, or, as the Old Testa- ment revisers prefer to have it, striving after wind, the Puritan and Genesta managed to get a race, and victory has perched upon the banners of Yankeedom. The absence of Eolian zephyrs from this side of the earth was an anomaly which has rarely if ever presented itself before in the history of time, and is no doubt due to the monopolizing tendencies of Prince Bismarck and the Impo- tentate of Spain, Alfonso, who have taken up about all the blowing that Eolus could well crowd into a single week. This, together with the Ohio campaign, has tended to embarrass yacht racers with a deep, deadly calm which would have been discouraging even to a canal boat. The seven hour limit to which the contestants were sub- jected by the conditions imposed, was found after repeated experiments to be about five weeks short of the period necessary for the yachts to cover the ground. All sorts of expedients were suggested whereby a race might be had. Two of the owners of the Puritan wanted the race on the Erie Canal, twenty miles to muleward and return, and to this end employed three cowboys to man the yacht. Sir Richard Sutton objected on the ground that he did n't come over here for a procession, but wanted a race according to the conditions agreed upon, or the cup. He didn’t intend to bring the Queen’s Cup down to a blarsted Republican level by racing with army mules, but he would consent to a floating match over Niagara, if he could get O'Donovan Rossa to man the Genesta, with Ben Butler aboard of the Puritan. This scheme seemed likely to be adopted, when it was discovered that of the nine owners and seven captains of the Puritan, eleven had conscientious as well as political scruples against exposing Mr. Butler to the danger of such a voyage, but were unanimously eager to have Mr. Rossa take a walk over with the Genesfa, trusting to Providence and Massachusetts luck to win the two subse- quent trials. Sir Richard then became impatient and asked the Purz- fan's owners if it was going to be necessary for him to have his remark about coming over for arace and nota gift printed in the form of a circular. He was very tired of making that sportsmanlike utterance every two hours during the day, and would much prefer sending it around in type, as it was com- paratively easy to print seven or eight hundred copies of it. Mr. Forbes promised to make a note of it and spare Sir Richard the trouble, owing to complications in the Interna- tional Copyright Law which would put his words in the mouth of any vulgar, untitled English yachtsman who hap- pened to want them. All efforts, therefore, to race last week were suspended, and the contesting vessels were dry docked and oiled over Sunday. Monday morning found them ready once more, and with scuppers flying and the hatch jibs set, the two racers drew near the starting point of the New York Yacht Club's course. THE START.* A: Genesta, B: Puritan, DD; Starting line, ZZZ: Direction of the wind, The breeze, which was N. J. by S. I., was blowing at the rate of four miles a month, when the Luckendach, with a brass band representing the daily press on board, steamed out and gave the whistle for the start. © These diagrams are from designs made es; of the New Vork S—a, y for Live by the Editor comicbooks.com