Life — June 16, 1892 — page 11: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

“GETTING IT DowN Pat.” “TZ ING KALIKO,” at the Broad- way, is incomparably the best light opera produced this season. Mr. Solo- mon’s music is not very original, but it is catchy and pleasing. The scene is laid in the Sandwich Islands, which gives scope for pronounced novelty in costumes and effects. Mr. Edwin Stevens is very clever as “ King Kaliko,” and the cast throughout ‘TINGUISHED, She (artistic): PROFITING BY THE STANDARD. He (literary); SINCE VAN PUSHE HAS GONE INTO FASHIONABLE SOCIETY HE HAS BECOME QUITE DIS- T ALWAYS CONSIDERED HIM AS HAVING MERELY AN ORDINARY MENTAL OUTFIT. He: TaT's WHAT ENABLES HIM TO SHINE IN THAT PARTICULAR FIELD. is excellent. The piece is a decided relief after the usual dreary efforts to trans- plant foreign successes to the American stage. LETTERS OF CREDIT—I, O. U. ZY st) iy ie ———eewor The Batter (as one of the pitcher's new curves comes up to the plate): GREAT Scott! Have I GoT THEM AGAIN, TO THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE: WING to Lire’s large edition we are obliged to go to press without knowing what your name is. It may be Blaine, or Harrison, or Dark Horse. Some of our Dem- ocratic friends say that anyway your name is Mud. You will know more about that in November. No matter who you are, we are sorry for you. For the next five months you will have to smile on every office-chaser who cares to grasp your hand. The newspapers will give publicity to every detail of the private life of yourself and your immediate and remote relatives... Human nature will thrust itself on you in its most debased and disgusting aspect. And even after all this you may not be elected. We are really sorry for you. Are you not a little bit sorry for yourself? The game is a big one, but is it worth the candle? RIMUS: Oh, you don’t know me. I have a most ungovernable temper. SEcuNDUS: Can't get mad when you know you ought to, eh? comicbooks.com