Life — December 24, 1891 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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> LIFE: ‘There was nothing in the singing of the chorus to justify the remarkable and almost phenomenal ugliness of its individual members. Extraordinary good singing might atone for such a collection of freaks and antiquities, both male and female, but we doubt it. The boxes contained the usual quantity of diamonds, fat shoulders, fine laces, low gowns, and blowzy faces. It is quite a tribute to the genius of M. Gounod that the possessors of these treasures did no loud talking during the performance of ** Romeo et Juliette.” . . . R. CHARLES FROHMAN, judging by the character of the plays presented, is ambitious to make of Herrman’s Theatre an American reproduction of the little theatre in the Palais Royal, Paris, ** The Solicitor," ** The Man with a Hundred Heads,” and now “The Junior hey are of course cleaner Partner,” are frothy productions, whose highest aim is to amuse. than the Palais Royal farces, but they fulfill their purpose very well.“ The Junior Partner” is only passably acted, but it goes by the humor of its situations and action, ‘The plot is absurd and impossible, but it's laughable, and artistically is immeasurably superior to the so-<alled farce comedies from which this unhappy metropolis finds it so difficult to escape. > aa aa eat; 1 \ ISH BALL MH € CREAM: PXV_ CENTS Hl BOSTON BEANS} | ~ " TO CATCH WoopDcock.” Hamtet. LIFE’S RESEARCHES IN ROMAN RAILWAYS. FIVE MINUTES FOR DINNER WAS TOO LITTLE EVEN FOR THE ANCIENTS, comicbooks.com