Life, 1890-09-25 · page 11 of 14
Life — September 25, 1890 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This page from *Life* magazine contains satirical commentary and illustrated vignettes. The main content includes: **Text commentary** mocking the theatrical entertainment options available that week, suggesting the quality is poor. The author notes that if you want Shakespeare or serious drama, you're out of luck—theaters are offering only light farces and melodramas. There's a quip that "the trouble about the pace that kills is that it doesn't kill enough," likely criticizing the overly hectic pace of modern life. **Illustrations** show social scenes: one depicts "Dorothy's Indulgent Papa" offering an expensive birthday gift, and another titled "The Day Before the Wedding" shows a woman in an elaborate feathered costume discussing wedding postponement due to acquiring "a great deal of tar and a modicum of feathers." The overall tone is satirical commentary on contemporary theater quality and upper-class social life.
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ALL's WELL THAT ENDS WALL, Dorothy's Indulgent Paps: S$) VO-MOKKOW'S YOUR BUCTHDAY, BIL? Wert, WetL; | MU3sT GIVE YOU A NICE PRES Cour, Now; CHoosr ONE AS MANDSOME AND : AS YOU PLEASE, Dorothy: V Witt TAKE Jack Hakvurer, Paps, DEAR, ] N direct contrast to the little people at Niblo's are the three large, long, Levey sisters who appear in Evans and Hoey’s “ Parlor Match” at the Park. They range over six feet in altitude and are very tall for their height. . . * T would be a very capricious taste indeed;that could not find entertainment at the theaters this, week. If you wish anything from the triumphant-virtue schcol of English melo-drama to Francis Wilson's American light opera, you can find it at some theater in New York. There is one exception, however. If you wish Shakespearian or tragic drama you will have to find it between the covers of a book. Our late friend of Stratford-on-Avon never wrote a farce-comedy or a tank-drama and therefore is obliged to take a back seat forthe present. But theatrical taste has its reac- tions, and when the public tires of being simply amused Shakespeare will have his innings. Metcalfe. HAK EARE would have suggested a more pathetic spectacle to the modern fancy had he spoken of “ Patience " as sitting on a restaurant chair instead of on a monument. HE trouble about the pace that kills is that it doesn’t kill enough. THE DAY BEFORE THE WEDDING. “Ves, ALICE, STRANGE AS IT MUST SEEM, IT 15, INDEED, I, YOUR CYRUS THE Witte Cars CALLED ON ME LAST NIGHT, AND WHAT WITH A GREAT DEAL OF TAR AND A MODICUM OF FEATHERS, I PEEL CONSTRAINED TO ASK VOU TO’ POSTPONE OUR MARRIAGE FOR A FEW Days.” comicbooks.com