Life — April 8, 1909 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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j i H A Deduction From an Easter Hat There is a girl in our town and she is wondrous wise, And her new home-made Easter hat ae will open people's eyes. J————" 3, She commandeered the wash-tub and Ooo Willie's speckled hen, | the rag-bag and the erazy-quilt and cat-tails from the fen, A yard of Prussels carpet, and a cake of yellow soap, A half a dozen ostrich eggs, and a knot of curtain rope, A bottle of Tabasco sauce, and the stone from uncle’s grave, Ard for the pompom took the brush her father used to shave. ‘That girl's got brains, she has, and, men folks, please take note, ‘She's a member of the brainy sex who think they ought to vote, gp ITH great pleasure Lire recognizes the enter prise of its esteemed contemporary, Collier's Weekly, in finally discovering Mr. Abraham L. Erlanger. For some years Lire has com- mented frecly on the efforts of Mr. Erlanger to advance the drama in America and elevate the artistic, moral and commercial standards of the American theatre. The editorial page of last week's Collier's Weekly is devoted to Mr. Erlanger, his character and his influence. The editor records his dis- covery in plain and commendable English. Lire again con- gratulates Collier's on its enterprise, and for further informa- tion on the subject would refer its editor to the back numbers of Lire. He will there find that he has precedent for apply- ing to Mr. Erlanger his terms, such as “ignorant,” “ brutal, “coarse,” “ pandering to crass licentiousness,”” “ bully,” and justification for his statement that in the theatre of free America “the payment of an excessive ‘rake-off’ to Ei Janger"” is “the test of fitness to survive.” And in under- “Gractous! WIAT'LI BECOME OF ALL MY SAWDUST?" A DIPLOMAT Possible Client: AND 18 THE DISTRICT AT ALL MALARIAL? MY HUSBAND ASKED ME TO BE CAREFUL TO INQUIRE ABOUT THAT. Agent; ER—WHAT 1S YOUR HUSBAND'S BUSL |» MADAM ? “HE 1S A PILYSICIAN.’? “ MM-M—WELL—ER—TRUTH COMPELS ME TO ADMIT, MADAM, THAT THERE MAS BEEN A GOOD DEAL OF IT ABOUT MERE OF LATE YEARS.”” taking criticism of the leading individualities who control the destinies of the theatre in America, Collier's will also find valuable material in the records of the criminal courts, here and abroad. All this is not exactly dramatic criticism, but it helps. Everything Goes on the Stage If the Sunday editors are right in their estimate of the aver- age American's lack of taste and his crude sense of humor, as shown by what they put in their comic supplements, “ The Newlyweds and their Baby’ should be a great success. It faithfully reproduces for the stage a comic supplement feature of considerable celebrity, and to those who have ever seen a supplement—and very few have been able to avoid it— this is sufficient description and criticism, Spring is Here! In the country we know it is spring by the budding crocuses, the return of the birds and the gencral waking up of nature. In town the sure sign is the coming of the circus to Madison Square Garden, This year we miss the historic trademark “Barnum and Bailey,” but the substitution of the name of the Ringling Brothers seems to have made no difference in the quantity, quality and general character of the performance. comicbooks.com i