Life — October 16, 1890 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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~ LIFE: a lot of Britishers, but was mighty stupid to people who have educated their brains under the stars and stripes. And as for looks, those British women were as little good-looking as the men were funny, They must have had to pass a civil service examination in ugliness before they signed under this Paul Jones. But my namesake was handsome enough to 211 make up for all the rest-of them, and I suppose | ought to be satisfied.” m The shade would have talked all day, but ‘at this -point Charon came up with the cabin list of a lot of dead people from Philadelphia for the gate-keeper’s inspection, and the shade of Paul Jones blew itself off in search of an ambrosial cocktail. . . . T is an unalloyed pleasure to have Mr. Daly's company in town again. The American theater-goer has to accept a great deal that is lamentably weak and vulgar, but whatever these players undertake to present is always given with a life, skill and artistic finish that comes like a breath of purer air. Mr, Jerome K. Jerome is the author upon whose work the talents of this excellent company are at present concentrated, ‘ New Lamps for Old” is not a remarkable play ; neither is it original or clever. And were it not for the exceptional abilities of the players who have it in hand, its chances for a long and happy life would be diminutive. The intent of the piece is to be funny, and under Mr, Daly's management it certainly is so. Miss Rehan as Ehvra Honiton, invests the character with all the interest the oppor- tunity: offers. The same may be said of Mr. Drew, as Honiton, of Mr. Lewis, as Buster the old family solicitor, and of Mr, Bond, as Jorkins the butler. Mrs. Gilbert's talents werethrown away on the character of Mfrs. Snackett, landlady of the ‘Sweet Brier Arms." Mr. Burr McIntosh makes his first appearance here as Algernon Postlethwaite, and promises to be an important addition to the company. Miss Anna Franosch also makes her first appearance here. Metcalfe. OREMAN: Hello, Hawkins; glad-to see you. to run across a man I'm looking for. Hawkins: So dol. . BOREMAN: Say, Hawkins, I'll go ‘around to your rooms and talk a while. I prefer your society to any man’s I can name just now. HAWKINS: 1 like So do I. comicbooks.com