Life — April 19, 1894 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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

THOSE, FASY-RUNNING CASTORS ARE NOT ALWAYS A CONVENIENCE. history of the play does there seem any warrant for the French actor's mer- curial portrayal. It is hardly fair for an American to criticize his declamatory powers on the delivery of the lines of the French Ham/et. In the famous soliloquy he was at his best from our point of view, although even then it is difficult to overcome the shock of hearing the stately “ to be, or not to be” transformed into the ambling “étre—ou ne pas étre.” 1. Mounet-Sully may be a great tragedian ; in America, he is not. ¢ of Corneille and Racine his talent may manifest itself; in Shakespeare translated into French it is almost wholly extinguished, Metcalfe. HAT is a delicious moment when, after waiting in solitude from 7 to 7:30 in the drawing-room, it gradually dawns upon you that you have been invited half an hour ahead of time because you are always a half hour late. s OW did you secure such a fat pension. You weren't in the army,were you?” “No-o; but I got the rheumatism getting over to Canada in an open boat.” “GETTING SOLID WITH THE OLD MAN.” comicbooks.com