Life — March 19, 1896 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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220 PARADOXICAL. IS hard to be poor,” sang the poet, As his mantle about him he furled ; So he sang, but well did he know it Is the easiest thing in'the world. S$ 5 TOUGH ON TURKS. PROPOS of the moral and intel- lectual darkness about to de- scend upon the Ottoman dominions, the Quebec Chronicle thus expresses itself: New York Lire, one of the funniest, witti- est and best edited journals in the world, has achieved a brilliantsuccess. The Sultan of Turkey, who is despised by everybody, and has incurred the contempt of all civilized nations, has prohibited that great humorous weekly from his dominions. The order of exclusion has been made permanent. We hope that the fun-loving Turks who took the paper will survive the indignity which His Ass-Ship, their master, has put them to. Thank you, neighbor. Lire has always felt it a compliment to have a subscription stopped by the right person. It is by such tokens that we know we are getting in our work, TEN CENTS’ Consuelo (reading) : “The size of the hat a woman wears on her head in the theatre 1s in inverse proportion to her breeding.” ANOTHER JULIET. HAT would become of our literature it ‘riters imitated only the mannerisms and affectations of ‘the masters of the art ? And what becomes of the art of acting when the disciples only follow the faults of the teachers ? Julia Marlowe Taber has for some little time sought to be the leading American ac- tress in the strictly legitimate rdles. There seems to be no direct heiress or successor to the mantle of Keene and Cushman and An- derson. Pretenders there have been without number, but their careers have been brief and they have come ard gone and left no sign. Outside of New York, Miss Julia Marlowe—to use the name by which she is best known— has acquired a strong contingent of admirers WORTH. THE VIZ-COUNT ENTERED THE APARTMENT WITH A LANGUID THE LATEST THING IN BABY CARRIAGES IN AFRICA. who are ready to crown her with the laurels of astage queen. Fortunately for the stage, out-of-town verdicts are not final. They are too much colored by local feeling and by the contagion of neighborly enthusiasm to be ab- solutely impartial. The consensus of a met- ropolitan audience, in which no one knows his neighbor, is a better test of the claim to genius. This does not mean that New York audiences are highly intelligent or that their verdict is always just, but it does mean that no one can claim absolute supremacy on the stage until he or she has won the approval of the mixed audiences of the metropolis. Miss Marlowe has gained name and fame in what some people like to call the provinces. Judged from the metropolitan point of view she is deficient. Whatever natural advan- tages she may possess are clouded by her imi- tations of the defects of others. HAIR, AND PUFFED HIS CIGAROOT VITH WIOLENCE. ‘AIR YOU ALONE 2” HE INKWIRED IN A NONGSHALLNOT MANNER OF THE COUNTISS. SHE ROSE FROM THE TURKEYS OTTERMAN WITH A DILUTED NOSTRIL, HER EYES FLASHED WITH A FIRE WHICH ALMOST CONSOOMED THEIR LIDS, AND SHAKIN’ HER JEWILLED LEFT HAND IN THE VIZ-COUNT’S FACE, SHE GAVE A MAJESTIC SWEEP WITH HER RIGHT FOOT AN’ LEF’ THE ROOM. Omnes: my '! Itis always difficult to write of /ufiet and not think ot Adelaide Neilson. To use an il- lustration more pat than elegant, Miss Mar- lowe makes us think of Miss Neilson because : she is so different. Leaving entirely out of comicbooks.com