Life, 1888-11-22 · page 10 of 14
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 292 This page contains three distinct items: 1. **"Othello" Review**: A drama critique of a production by actors Booth and Barrett at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, discussing Shakespeare's play about a "colored gent" named Othello who kills his wife on false evidence of infidelity. The reviewer notes the plot's implausibility for contemporary divorce courts. 2. **Herr Seidl's Concert Course**: Brief notice of a musical program featuring Beethoven and other composers, with positive remarks about soloists. 3. **"Triumphant in Death"**: A humorous illustrated story (unclear without reading the full text) involving a Shanghai character and a "dynamite cartridge," depicted through sequential drawings of a rooster. The page represents typical Life magazine content: theatrical criticism, cultural events, and comic sketches for educated readers.
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OTHELLO. ({Lire’s regular dramatic critic being absent on his vaca- tion, we are compelled to notice the appearance of Messrs. Booth and Barrett at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, by clipping from the columns of our esteemed contemporary, the Ot- tumwa (la.) Herald-Advocate —ED.] “THOSE rising young actors, Messrs. Booth and Barrett, last evening produced a play called “Othello,” by a more or less successful dramatist named Shakespeare. The piece is tolerably familiar to the readers of the Herald-Ad- vocate, and does not call for extended notice. Suffice it to say that the action hinges on the jealousy of a “colored gent” named Othello, who kills his wife on evidence of in- fidelity which would not stand for five minutes even in a Chicago divorce court. He squares the account, though, by killing himself, and his fate was felt to be so well deserved that there was not a wet eye in the house. . . . HE first of Herr Seidl’s concert course took place Satur- day, the 1oth of November, and if the others are equally good, the musical public may expect a treat. The programme included principally Beethoven's beauti- ful pastoral symphony, an entr'acte of Von Weber's, and Liszt's “ Bird Sermon of St. Francis of Assisi," which, per- haps not unlike the worthy Saint's remarks, was a trifle dull. The soloists, Mr. Conrad Ansorge and Master Fritz Kreiss- ler, were highly satisfactory, and the evening was one of great interest. FROM A TOMB AT THEBES. THIS DISCOVERY HAS LED ARCHAOLOGISTS TO BELIEVE THE EARLY Kixcs OF EGYPT WERE A PROFANE LOT, AND POSSESSED NO MORE SELF-CONTROL THAN THE MODERN AMERICAN, TRIUMPHANT IN DEATH. THE THRILLING STORY OF A HEARTLESS SHANGHAT AND A DYNAMITE CARTRIDGE, comicbooks.com