Life — April 16, 1891 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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- LIFE: 245 The other characters are well sustained, particularly that of Col, Rocket and the Countess of Pompion. Altogether the performance is interesting, and after the mass of dramatic foolishness seen on New York's stages this winter, most refreshing. . . . ‘© DETROTHED,” at the Garden Theatre, has as artistic a setting as any in New York for some time. Alphonse Daudet's attempt to explode the theory of heredity is not entirely successful, and a society play seems a strange channel for such an effort. A MAN WITH ASPIRATIONS, AT LEAST. HE: Isn't Wagner's music wonderful? Don’t you think it seems to have the power of carrying the hearer away from this world to some other for the time? HE: No. I've often wished it could affect me or the orchestra that way. AN ETHECAL POINT. La Fiancée: 1 AM SORRY TO HEAR PAPA IS SPECULATING SO HEAVILY, Le Fiancé: BY Jove! I 18 ALMOST CRIMINAL FOR A MAN TO SPECULATE WITH MONEY THAT OUGHT TO BE SAVED FOR HIS SON-IN-LAW, comicbooks.com