Life — January 13, 1887 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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DEAR Mr. EDITOR: When Miss Margaret Mather played that long engagement against time at the Union Square Theatre last year, the kindly and encouraging critics, ever ready to discover “a gem of purest ray serene,” praised her performance, hinted at cer- tain peculiarities which needed correction, and of course pro- phesied a capacious and profitable future. Miss Mather’s Leah last year was a pleasing effort for an ambitious young woman to make. Of course you had to subtract from your pleasure a percentage of gurgle, a flavor- ing of rolled and ultra-rolled 7, &nd a little of the eternal guttural sob. And you did subtract all this. You said to Miss Mather, “ You have done well. Go West, or wherever you are going, and come back to us improved. You will then be welcome,” or words to that effect. Well, Miss Mather has come back. ful tone, for she has returned with the same old gurgle, which must be a good strong article, as it shows not the least sign of wear and tear; the same old flavoring of rolled and ultra-rolled 7, and the identical guttural sob, which does duty for Leah, Juliet and Ju/za, with awful impartiality. If she thinks her audiences are going to be magnanimous to pardon her this time, she reckons without her host. A gurgle can go too far, the 7 can refrain too long from rolling itself away, and the sob can become too stagey. If she had not been over-weeningly complacent she would have known that the kindly criticisms she evoked last season I say this in a mourn- | POPE VERSUS PAPA ET ALS. EVN OS makes the man, and want of it the fellow.” So sang one Pope, a bard of former days. WortH makes the woman, now, and makes the fellow Want gold in heaps, if he her “tailor” pays. RD. HE Chicago ministers who recently witnessed the ballet, kept only one eye to the morality of the thing. Ir is rumored that the Czar is drinking too much vitchski. MORE NUTRIMENT TO IT. IFE (enjoying her dinner): What can be more deli- cious than a nice canvasback ? HusBanp: A greenback, my dear, a greenback. CIENTISTS believe it impossible for a man to have a double. If this is so, how can a man be beside him- self? AN APPROPRIATE TEXT. CLERGYMAN who was visiting the Indian school at Chester, Pa., a Sunday or two ago, was requested to deliver the sermon at the morning services. He consented, of course, and made a most excellent effort from the appropriate text : “ Lo, I am with you alway.” were called forth merely by possibilities, which were almost | probabilities, Miss Mather will most likely be given one more chance. That will probably decide her future. actress she will try to reform. She can never make her If she be a wise | peculiarities anything half as interesting as eccentricities, so | that there is nothing to do but to drop them. Alan Dale. * * * ISS HELEN HASTINGS, who will appear at the Union | Square Theatre on Monday evening, January 17, is a | young English actress who has won popularity in her native | country by sheer force of talent. She will be seen in a new comedy of American life, supported by a company that has been formed here. ‘“ AM not accuthtomed to dwinking,” he said timidly to the bartender, “ but I am feeling quite thick, and ] would like to athk you if you have any ware old whithky ?” “ Rare old whisky ?” repeated the bartender indulgently, * I should say so! I can give it to you raw if you want it.” A SLIGHT MISTAKE. | Commercial Gent: ENGAGED MISS? | Young Lady (from the country): OH MY, YES! THREE MONTHS AGO. comicbooks.com