Life — February 4, 1904 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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M8 Some Nursery Advice. S HUT your mouth And open your eyes, And other people Will think you wise. A Game of Chance. picturesqu durin gam ble between Fate One si 1 Ma, Clell mimissioner Hayes, tl intendent of pers Buildings 1 Di WSS trict Attor- the other. Jointly or severally — they could close Tur Swwoy Tuearne Tie Maxiartas Tueatee, Tie Buov Test ux Mapioy Square Taestee Nie Putscess Tester, all built under the old law The officials named above are betting that dur their terms of office no disaster simi- lar to that whieh occurred in the Lroquois f the ieago will occur in any «l theatres, veo The stake is the lives of m childre 2, women and The chances are that the officials will refore they are comparatively win, and t 1 making the bet. ¢ suppose th utd lose! . . ethe daily newspapers in g to protect the lives of the peopl Are the deadbead privileges and the revenue from theatrical advertising exert- ing their usual paralyzing influence on uurnitlistic honesty ? * * ° ‘OT to find marital infidelity the basis for a French farcical comedy is such a surprise that, if in other respects the piece is amusing, one is apt to carried away with delight. That perhaps accounts for the extremely agreeable pression created by *LIFE- Polichinelle.” thing about it is th illicit relations on the part of th couple in the piece were the foundation for In fixing the play over to American taste —a legal impossibility for And the funny the whole story. suit the more Puritanical secret: mari France — is of the more pict take the pls and plausible cau his means a dis- h explanation is a serious obstacl swift progress necessary in vious condit mie concerning the validity of an En Under existing conditions this pr , hevessary if we atre-dours wide oper dens, bat italmost invariably means a artistic value, scheming of a vd grandmother who are de voted to the child of the ¢ 4 an interesting little ch knows of the othee is ig The devices of ese two elderly persons, living in a beau tiful middle-aged devotion to get to see the youngster naturall suspicion of the motives on either side and the resulting complications may ‘The usual French farce resort has to be re- nd in this respect, sorted to burdly at all, is a welcome contrast to its also, the play imported predecessors The piece is well cast. The impers tion of « doting grandfather, is not the greatest triumph of W. H. ‘Thompson's career, but it is ag humorous, of course, in the sty iles. In the favorites not reeently seen Grace Kimball, ud Mr, Sothern’ Ferguson, whose abilities in polite eccentric parts are well known, ‘They both have little to do. a: mecenal, th 1 imper- in, coking tears rather sale also two othe 1 New York — srmerly of the Ly panies, elle "why did tithe and not all? y justifies the have had abroad —in its American guise hi great vogue it is said Rat iti nites YE-PICTURI the people whieh one makes for one's self in reading abook are n distinct and valua the memory. If one really treasures them, it is wise to keep away re less from stage interpreta- noof the book-auth greuse-paint reproduction is ne “s creations, The ee better to us than the word hero or heroine one pic- and often is the means tH tures for one’s self, a precious mental. pi We cannot quarrel with the actress who in this fails to live up to our of destro: tor or imaginations, Our own drawing is the only one which is, oF can be, isfactory to our- selves. a us. From the author he is likely to drauw different to ours, and in wh from the airy tuality of ud the actor is very likely to offend a conception v jon has t guess of thous flesh, blood and between him and the author fr comes that child of dramatist, who can fit any 1p f actors, doing the job th neatness and dispateh, while the n ger waits, hat and check in hand We frankly admit that The Virginian of Mr. Dustin Farnum is not The Verginian of Mr. Owen Wister’s book by the same name as we have ured him. Bat although Mr. Parnum’s Virginian is exactly our Virginian, it does not 1 y mean that he is not a very Virginian indeed. Mis deliberation, his shyness, the cowboy round-shouldered- ness seem a little bit too much exag- gerated for even his conception of the character. He doesn’t seem to be exactly a natural leader and commander of men as jothes. More than that, pquently and any x comicbooks.com