Life — October 26, 1893 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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- LIFE street Jewish lawyer who is, from this point of view, the principal character of the piece. The subordinate Jews who make up the background are really true to the life of that neighborhood. The other characters are the usual ones. Mr. Harrigan is the Irishman who has risen to prosperity as a stevedore, Mrs, Yeamans is as droll and irresistible as ever as the coquettish Irish matron, and Mr. John Wild is the usual eccentric negro. The situations in “ The Woollen Stocking" are not nearly as funn: in Mr. Harrigan’s other plays, and the humor in the dialogue is dragged in with considerable effort. Mr. Braham’s musical work is, to many of the patrons of this theatre, equal in importance to Mr. Harrigan’s own work. In this case he seems to have fallen, even more than Mr. Harrigan, below his usual level. A Harrigan play with- out a song that immediately captivates the ear is like a Wagner opera with the brass instruments and bass drum left out. is is unfortunately so with “ The Woollen Stock- ing.” The usual sloppy-weather song corresponding to A THOROUGHLY AMERICAN FAMILY. ‘HOW DID THAT THRIFTLESS COUNT DI POMONA MARRY A MILLIONAIRE'S FAMILY 2” “OH, HE WON THE GIRL BY HIS TITLE, AND EXPLAINED TO HER FATHER THAT HE WAS A PIANO-TUNER IN DISGUISE.” INTO “ Paddy Duffy's Cart” and “ Maggie Murphy's Home" is dull and commonplace compared with those celebrated melo- dies, and the same is true of the choruses. Mr. Harrigan still permits ticket-speculators to infest his lobby and the walks in front of his theatre. Metcalfe. A CURIOUS CHANCE. , Ts singular! Van Doody drank so much The other night before he went to bed, ‘That, when he rose next morning, strange to say, For once in all his life he had a head ! RS. HOON: I have just been reading that an infalli- ble way to tell whether or not a person is dead is to tie a string around the middle finger of the supposed corpse. Mr. Hoon: I'd like to see the experiment tried on the late Whitelaw Reid, if he could be found. comicbooks.com