Puck — September 5, 1877 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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D1 Murska is soon to return to New York, | to recommence her customary circus on the chromatic scale. Ciara Louise KELLoGc goes to San Fran- cisco September roth, to warble in strictly American style. ‘THe Puitapenenia Satu day Evening Mirror will bloom out hereafter with a new head-piece as the Dramatic and Musical Mirror. Tue “Kerry Gow” horse, supported by | Mr. Murphy, has departed to fresh fields and pastures new, and Chanfrau’s “ Kit" has taken his place at the Grand Opera House. | Bustness is bad in Kalamazoo, And now the “local amateur talent” will waltz to the front and show ‘em how to play “Richelieu” and “ Hamlet,” and a few other trifles. ‘Tuere is quarreling over the ‘ Midge! Mr. Meade says he owns them, but Mr. Frank Uffmer has put them in his vest-pocket, and says he means to show that mite is right. ‘Aimee. is here, charming as ever, and ready for fresh triumphs at the New Broadway, but slightly subdued in_ spirits, owing to the death of her famous pet dog. It is in Didi loss, ALL. too soon the radiance of “ Pink Domi- nos” will be withdrawn from the Union Square, and Oil City will take the place of Cremorne, j when the Williamsons open in “Struck Oil." | xpeR THE Wittows” will be put on the | stage of the Lyceum on Sept. roth, with the Wallers and Mr. Ed. ‘Thorne in the leadin, parts. Which looks well for ‘ Under the Wil t Miss Kare Ciaxtoy will be supported in her next starring tour by Miss Lillian Cleves. | Miss Claxton scorns the assistance of the wily manager, and proposes to take care of herscif this year, ‘Tue Brivis Bioxves will illumine Rob- inson Crusoe” next after “Oxygen,” and w shall see how the hero of our boyhood’s days looksin fascinating fleshings and a jaunty white | t fur coat. Willie Edouin will be the 7iday. € Apvick ro YounG MeN oF ‘THE Press. When you see a young, pretty and promis. | Senery one, its verwy ungentlemanly” for admirwals, and other fellaws hi ing actress who needs a notice, go to her and | say: “You nied a notice.” Moreover, let her need it. It is the only safe thing you ‘can do under the circumstance ‘Tne Froresces will produce, during their present engagement, their new play by Paul a differwence in Bellevue Avenue is the sometimes weminds me, just a twifle, yer know, of the Wow —I mean Wotten Wow. severwal fellaws I’ve seen or heard of befaw. Aw Dunraven took awun up he-ah - wather good sort of fellaw. a fellaw in Amerwica who can weally under. stand a fellaw. navigating lieutenant, or ac aw Smith, wather think it’s Jones. I ought to wemember, for my uncle, when he was first lord of the admirwalty pwocured him the appointment. But I don’t care much for navy fellaws. [ class My young bwother Fwed is a spe never yet aw wollicking style. ful ther are wather worse, and I’m not surpwised, as says PUCK. FITZNOODLE IN AMERICA. XXIV. NEWPORT—I1. Ya-as, yer see V've not dwagged myself away from this aw wesort yet; and, by Jove, I think there must be a gweat number of other places which are more un- endurwable — than aw Newport. A fellaw can soon see everwything, but still there is varwiety, and varwiety is aw something or other. Newport are called avenues—some fellaws call ‘The pwincipal dwives and woads in Stwange, there should be such pwonunciation of words, favorwite dwive —it hem avnyers. I've met It’s doosid gwatifying to meet ‘There is a Bwitish navy fellaw h who has something to do with our Minister merwica, He is a staff-commander, or a ptain, his name is Bwown, ‘Jones, or Wobinson. 1 he: 0 hem with the infantwy and’ the junior bar. imen. ‘They uit of their gunwoom fwolies, and Can't stand it, yer know do verwy well aboard a yacht— perhaps use- OF course Ameérwican navy fellaws have to be hootblacks befaw they can w ¢ a commission—how verwy queer the Amerwicans havn't. a navy k ally wight—and I think, if there isn’t a lot of hh, to tell me he cy belong to the Amerwican nav Field-Marshal Kane is heah, same fellaw who used to dwive wegularly to aw Wonkabs, and a fellaw, who keeps a tobacconist’s shop Merritt, re-written by Julian Magnus. “It was, in New York-—Lollypop, or Lollypork, or Lollt originally called “ Rough and Ready.” ‘The ktrd, they eall him. You see, a ‘fellaw ean't play is Ready, and it is Rough on the punsters , Weally keep away fwom twadespeople if he that the name has been changed. We have great hopes of Mr. Joaquin Miller as at dramatist. ‘The Boundless and Illimitable has been caught stealing from Helen's Habies Habberton. Now that he has struck the true ¢ hesitation in predicting his future ‘Tne Sax FRancisco critics are at d: AUNESS, yuers | 1 drawn with the actors, and at latest reports, the | wich; bt actors were weakening. One young lady in the wa with wailways A family named I. “These nts to be agweeable at all. ‘astor invited Jack and ime to a | people have a zweat many gweenbacks and aw se uscd to sell wetail, muffs and eufis, and other 3 * urarwangements, Another wich fellaw, Funn Boucicault idea so early in the day, we have no | | agements, Another wich fellsw, Funny ) rwal miles of pwoperty, but some time ke, or Funnybuilt, has something to do He’s not verwy good form, but hinks he’s a d-d-devil of a fellaw because he's that sort of thing won't do, yer know, and f naturwally patwonize him, His father, of soubrette line has had considerable trouble in | jwandfather, some fellws sity, was an ordinary denying a malicious rumor that she had claimed As it see every properly dramatic column to make some reference to Miss Imogene, the talented young | J natural actress, we hereby mention the young | 1 lady. but we don’t mind stating, at a venture, that ‘Tins is the time when the provincial man- ager puts a streak of salmon-colored pai around the panels of his proscenium boxes, | ¢ and announces that his theatre is being “re: | novated and redecorated in a style of lavish splendor.” © We do not know what to say about her, | ‘f our s she is starring, supported by R, Dorsay Ogden. | of thing can't be pwevent t | wespectable as 1 the to amuse | feel that ; h , seaman, or coal twimmer, aboard some aw to have the entire press of "Frisco in her little | steamaw: pocket. | keeper's widow, and her decent-looki Ws to be the correct thing for | ter, will attwact some attention when they he-ah, verwy inferwior people. A wich inn laugh arwive Fellaws talk about the two now, and jack says that Wales used to notice them in wondon. ‘That aw isn’t much wecommendation. he girl, they say, has got hold of a fellaw in at home; sorwy to hear it, but this sort 1. I find that some people he-ah are nota ht— some are aw gwea ads and wabbish—but still a fellaw can man self comfortably —although now I Hd like to be aw at home having a wack at the gwouse and partwidges. II HE FLORENCES. ‘THe Micuty Dottar. “ce ae ‘pe MIGHTY DOLLAR” is upon us EY again, as appalling as ever in its su- perbly extravagant audacity. ‘Three years ago this dramatic monstrosity arose among us and announced itself as a play. Cheap melodrama, comedy, farce, burlesque, and even song-and-dance business, banded to- gether in some wild travesty on a coherent drama, arranged in acts and scenes, ensconce themselves in the Park Theatre, and turned a histrionic sepulchre into a place of merriment and mirth, ‘The critics rose in their might, and said it wasn’t a drama at all. The people rose in their might and said; ‘* We don’t care a conti- nental,” and went to see it. ‘The public had asserted itself once before in this manner, on the occasion of the advent of “The Gilded Age,” and the enraged critic groud their teeth in silence, and waited untill “ Sandy Bar" came along, and then they took it out of the contumacions public. In truth, these things were not plays. ‘They were, at best, merely ill-constructed vehicles for the amusing gags of clever specialty actors. Raymond, dramatized by himself, made tol- erable a wild olio, which before long lost its identity in his, and is to-day better known by the name of “ Colonel Sellers” than by its pro- per title, “The Mighty Dollar” has never been any- thing more than an arena for the Florences }to play circus in. Mr. Florence, under the guise of a realistic character-sketch, made him- self as inconsistently and farcically funny as he knew how—and he displayed a profound and widely-«iversified erudition in. that particular line—and Mrs. Florence utterly wiped out the tiger-lilies of the field in the item of gorgeous raiment, and gave us Mrs. Malaprop with vari- ations on the French dictionar At this the groundlings laughed and the judicious snickered privately, and “The Mighty Dollar” shook its fist in the faces of the delicate creations of art at Wallavk’s and the Square, and stalked | off from that fostering home of the American drama, the Park ‘Theatre, to cleetrify the pro- Vineials from Kalamazoo to Cape Mendocino, But its days of triumph were short. Local gags and ephemeral hits and the specialty Dusiness gencrally have been too much for it, and it comes back tous now, rather knock-kneed and consumptive, to bid’ us a last farewell. But it is difficult to associate the sadness of a G farewell with the ‘Mighty Dollar. It is as funny and as outrageous as before. ‘There is the same tircless humor of Florence, and the same illimitable wardrobe of his wife. ‘There are, also, several members of the ori showing, of course, to very litthe advantage; indeed, it is nothing but the virile selfassertion and the extraordinary accent of Ferguson that keep him from being lost in the characterless crowd of Dartsand Lemaitresand Weatherwaxes. Willie Deutsch, need we say, is still at the helm, But the end of the specialty plays is near at hand. ‘The dust is thick on the manuscript of “Sandy ar.” 1." ‘The. indefatigable Campbell, the snowy-bosomed Magnus, and a strange and cntleman whom the angels have news St. John have made an attack and Raymond has had mysterious med Moly on The Gilded Age to discard it. And now Florence has a quiverful of new plays for this season, and a wonderful rumor is going around that “The Mighty Dollar” has heen sold to Messrs, Birch and Backus, to be used! asa framework for a new and original en- tertaininent.