Life — March 24, 1892 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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THE THOUGHTFUL FRIEND. On the Horse: D2 YOU THINK MISS MORTON AND HER MOTHER DISCOVERED THAT I WAS TIPSY LasT SIGHT? The Other: Olt, XO; 1 EXPLAINED TO THEM THAT YoU WERE crazy. characters constructed in the same fashion. has sought to portray contemporary life in New York she has succeeded admirably on the principle /ucus a non lucendo. She sacrifices everything—truth, possibility, probability, and the unitics to momentary effect, and the result is most bewilder- ing. The piece is unworthy of the Lyceum stage and of the abilities of Mr. Frohman s company. If the adapter ERHAPS an echo of the season of Italian opera is to be found in the favor met with by the performances of Rossini’s ‘* Stabat Mater,” under the direction of Mr, Walter Damrosch, at Music Hall. It has been given on three succes- sive Sunday evenings, and always to good houses. “Say, CHARLIE, DON'T YOU EVER GET AWFUL SCARED HERE ALONE, WHEN YOUR PAPA AND MAMMA ARE AWAY TO CHURCH ?" “Way, so, You See, I'M NEVER REALLY ALONE; MAMMA SAYS Gop Is ALWays WITH ME.” “OH, BUT I SHOULD FINK YOU'D RATHER HAVE SOME OF YOUR OWN FOLKS.” 7 MODERN MATCH,” at the Union Square, isa dis- tinct hit for Mr. Clyde Fitch, the author, and for Mr. Augustus Pitou’s stock company. The piece is strong at every point, chiefly in its truthful portrayal of New York types as they really are. It keeps well within the bounds of probability and is especially to be commended because, with a strongly emotional plot, it avoids the stilted heroics which seem indispensable to the average emotional play. Mr. Pitou’s company acquits itself admirably. It shows thorough training and excellent judgment in the distribution of parts. Miss Seligman plays Veolet Hunt with rare artistic discrimination and saves it from the reproach which might attach to it with less able acting. The cast throughout does its work well, and altogether the performance is one of the best to be seen in New York to-day. Metcalfe. THEY ARE FOND OF BOYS. ISS FLYPP: If we girls had the nominating power 1 know who would be the Democratic candidate for M President. Miss ELDER: Who ? Miss Fiypp: Boies. A COMFORTING CIRCUMSTANCE. SCTCLL fine you ten dollars for drunk and disorderly,” said the judge. “Arrah,” remarked the prisoner to the bailiff, “ Oi'm ahead any how. If he had known me contimpt av court, he'd av foined me fur that, too.” comicbooks.com