Life — April 28, 1887 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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- LI T HE performance of «The Country Girl” and “A Woman's Won't,” at Daly's, on Monday last, was a delight to the eye, the ear, and the hospital for whose benefit the perform- ance was given. It required an effort, such as Mr. Daly’s talented company alone can make, to fully repay the audience for the difficulty they encountered in obtaining tickets, and for the risk they incurred by stirring out on so inclement a day. It is to be hoped that the doctors who had the benefit in charge are better physicians than theatrical managers. It was due charming Peggy than to any innate longing of mankind for an hour's wait in a doctor’s ante-room, listening to such pleasant sounds as a physician's private office alone can pro- duce, in the vain expectation of getting a good seat, that the | auditorium was so crowded. If the hospital derives as much benefit from the perform- ance as the physicians must have derived from the weather, the post-graduates need never again want for a refuge. HE engagement between a squad of men from the Ninth Company, Seventh Regiment, and Thespis, which recently took place at the Academy of Music, resulted in the THE HAMLET OF THE FUTURE. THE RESULT OF THE NEW RAILROAD LAW, CIAl GING THEATRICAL PROPERTIES. FULL FE- | entire rout of the Goddess and the capture by storm of over | a thousand passive spectators who filled the auditorium of the popular old Academy. The first gun was fired at eight o'clock, and from that moment it was evident that the soldierly youths who pride themselves on their similarity to the father of their country, who was “first in war, first in peace. first in the hearts of his countrymen,” might add histrionic laurels to their unscarred brows, Not one showed the white feather even when the battle waged hottest, and striplings who have scarcely yet learned to bear arms vied with veterans of a decade's standing in: swallowing that awful lump in the throat which is the premonitory symptom of stage fright—and what is more, they kept it swallowed. Mr. Boyesen has said that the awful American young girl is a discourager of novelists, which may be very true, but we think she is an encourager of militiamen—and there are more militiamen than novelists!’ The boxes filled with the bright | faces of their friends of the weaker sex, doubtless spurred rather to the desire of the populace to see Miss Rehan as the | these young soldiers on to their histrionic triumphs; and if ever the gallant Seventh is engaged in a contest of more deadly nature, we trust it may be in front of some young ladies’ boarding-school, where they will be sure to acquit themselves gloriously—not that they would not do so ordi- narily, but that they would do so extraordinarily under such circumstances, The militiamen’s beds, for which the benefit was given, | will be fifty per cent. more comfortable for this effort. OME years ago it was the style for people to dress up: of late we notice that fashionable ladies are inclined to dress down. ONE DRAWBACK. ER face of beauty, wondrous rare, Framed with a fluff of sunny hair; Her violet eyes, all hearts ensnare In love that’s scarce platonic. Was ever maid so fair as she? Bat yet, alas, she’s not for me, Because, beneath it all, I see A temper most cyclonic. MDC. THE REIGN OF ANTHONY I. IGGINS: Good gracious! has got under my collar! WiIGGINS: For heaven's sake don't take it off here. or Comstock will get after us! N ATURE is already having her field a sports. The first event is a back- ward spring: A wasp FREIGHT ON comicbooks.com