Life — September 24, 1896 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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“HE CAN EAT MORE GLASS BALLS THAN ANY MAN IN THE COUNTRY.” to the French authors whom he credits for his adap- tation, The cast is thoroughly competent. The character of Tireschappe fits Mr. Wilson’s well-known methods bet- ter than any he has assumed since first he sprang into fame as Caddie, Miss Glaser’s voice has gained in vol- ume and precision and her long-limbed grace is given ample opportunity for display. Mr. Miron makes an impressive Duke de Chateau Margaux and the chorus is well drilled vocally and in action, It is likewise com- posed of more than usually pretty and shapely young persons. The stage management is good but the emphasis that 1s given to the star is made just a leetle too apparent to be pleasant. With the exception of an occasional morsel for Miss Glaser, all the so-called ‘‘fat” goes to Mr. Wilson and leaves the other parts Jean indeed. This isa growing tendency of Mr. Wilson's, and if it is carried much further we shall soon see his operas turned into musical and saltatorial mono- logues, The plot of ‘“ Half a King” is ingenious, and al- though this is not really essential to a comic opera, it is worth noticing when it exists at all. The piece is so much better than “The Chieftain,” which served Mr. Wilson's pur- pose all last season, that it is bound to be success- ful even with the odds of this peculiar year against DUKE DE CHATEAU MARGAUX, it. (MR. MIRON.) Metcalfe. 235 THE LATEST AEROMETER. English experimenter has succeeded in constructing a minia- ture cyclone by employing hot air, and using rotary fans to start it, The cyclone is able to sustain itself for some time. In a room where the atmospheric conditions are fixed, it would probably revolve for an indefinite period. Built on asmall scale, acyclone could be made very useful around the house. For sweeping rooms, dusting furniture or beating the carpet, it would be unexcelled. It could work a pump or run a fan- ning mill. One could be kept in the stable, and when it was neces- sary to go for a doctor or to show a friend around town, it could be fastened to the buggy. The motocycle would soon outrun the horse in the race to obscurity. The danger is in getting it too large, If it became unmanage- able it might start across the country without giving the people in its route time to even contract for acyclone cellar. Consequently, in purchasing the right to build cyclones, it will be necessary at the same time to get a recipe for disintegrating them should occasion require. Of course, it isa rather peculiar prophecy, yet one may reason- ably predict that the time is not far distant when it will be no un- common sight to journey through the country and see miniature cyclones tugging away at hitching posts, or observe the tail of one projecting through a hole in the side of a stable; while others, defunct and collapsed, hang on the clothes line as limp and lifeless asa last year's style. “WHY DON’T YOU RUN HOME AND WASH YOUR FACE?” “THERE AINT NO WATER AT HOME.” ‘*NO WATER! WHAT DO YOU DRINK, THEN? “nEEK.” comicbooks.com