Life — January 24, 1895 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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SIILLIAM HL. SEAR ae. IN MADISON fQUARE. A GAIETY GIRL TRIES TO FLIRT WITH A FAMOUS STATESMAN, at modern gorgeous furnishing and decoration. To this is added a musical accompaniment characteristic and modified to please the non-, Japanese ear. The first-night audiences at Mr. Daly's theatre are presumably repre- sentative of what is best in theatre-going New York. an audience came very near making a butt of this piece. of its most Philistine members could not appreciate that Mr. Sidney Herbert was giving presumably a fairly correct picture of a Japanese nobleman, Zhe Lord Yamato, they started in to consider it a comic caricature, and to greet it with giggles. Fortunately Mr. Herbert maintained his dignity until these people realized their error, and inwardly kicked themselves, it is to be hoped, with considerable vigor. The company accomplishes its difficult task with great credit. They sustain the interest of the story, and appear at least picturesque in work which is foreign in every particular except language. Miss Rehan is cast in a réle where she does not appear to advantage and where she adds nothing And yet withal such Because some 59 to the interest and picturesqueness of the piece. To Mr. Hickman and to Miss Has- well credit is due for their excellent repre- sentation of the Japanese lovers. LIFE would like to see an artistic attempt like “Heart of Ruby” meet with the financial encouragement which might make ilar experiments more frequent, but fears si that this is too much to expect in the present condition of New York's theatrical education. But we should not be discouraged. We are going to have a new $2,000,000 theatre devoted to light opera with a variety show annex. * . . O*= afternoon last week a matinée was given at Koster and Bial’s for the benefit of a charity whose object is to pro- vide clothing for destitute women. The usual vaudeville programme, including the living pictures, was given, which suggests that it might not have been a bad idea for charity to begin at home. Metcalfe. WINTER SPORTS—A CONTRAST. HERE'S Percy in his Inverness And all the latest frills beneath : A blade dulled sadly in a sheath That's worthy better steel. No less His heart is heavier than his debts, Though he disclaims a part in Care And quite deceives us with an air Light as the salary he gets. And here's a chap whose wardrobe runs To plaids and stripes of wondrous size ; He's cash to burn and wits to prize, A stranger he to writs and duns. Deplore his lack of taste, confest ; By which he lives, the doubtful art, But envy him the merry heart Inside O'Brien's sealskin vest. Edward M. Barnard. ALL THE SAME IN DUTCH.