Life — January 16, 1896 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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

Old Lady: 17's NONE OF MY BUSINESS, BUT I CAN'T LOOK ON AND SEE SUCH DESECRATION WITHOUT REMARK ! “BE AISY, MA'AM.. SHURE IT'S A CIRCUS RIDER HE WAS, AN’ Ol'M THRYIN’ TO MEK TH’ POOR BOY FEEL AT HOME.” Miss Neilson is a handsome woman, but a large one, and she throws more muscularity than grace into her performances. She is also a trifle too remi- niscent of Miss Ellen Terry, especially in enunciation. Her scale of expression is limited, and she needs both to study good models and to increase her originality. The effect of her present performance is to make one doubt her artistic earnestness, This does not mean that she is not pleasing nor interest- ing, but that she neglects her possibilities. Metcalfe. A VALUABLE ACQUISITION. R. COHENHEIMER: Mishter O'Brien, vos it your liddel poy dot magician took silver tollars from his nose and ears at der show last night? Mr, O'BRIEN: It was my boy Dennis. “How much a veek-will you dake for dot poy?” KINNER: Is Mr. Laylow one of your permanent boarders ? THE LaNpDLaby: Heis. I told him he couldn’t leave until he had paid up. MUSICAL. THREE BEATS TO A MEASURE, comicbooks.com