Puck — June 19, 1878 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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DRAMATIC NOTES. In consequence of the dearth of amateurs, the Lyceum is closed. Tue Dramatic Slave Mart on Union Square, otherwise known as “‘ the Rialto,” has opened for the season. “ LEAVEs IN VALLAMBROSA”’ are as nothing compared with the number of actors now in New York. They are more thin than thick however. “Diptomacy” has run its course, and Wal- lack’s has closed. ‘The piece will enjoy a period of retirement until August 26th, when it will be played in Brooklyn. A_ ew version of “ Montjoye” (The Man of Success”) was presented in Chicago by the Union Square Company. The last act has been re-written so as to enable Montjoye to die. The idea of this is to infuse new Ilfe into the Play. Bryant's MINsTRELS are at the Grand Opera House, which brings to mind the quotation that the Ethiop can change neither his skin, his jokes, nor his sketches. Some of this quota- tion is in the Bible, and the rest of it is obvious. Tue reign of the Chimpanzee is over, and the performing monkeys have arrived at the Aqua- rium. We are sorry for Chim; he bore up bravely at first, but it was no use. The monkeys are of kindly disposition, and their pranks and festivities will doubtless make matters cheerful in 35th Street. Tue ‘Celebrated Case" prevails at Niblo’s, with a cast of individual excellence, and some new effects, The weather is pretty hot for the woes of the galley-slave, but as he comes out better in the end than the villain, he has no right to complain at popular prices. Amonc the concerts given last weck was one at Association Hall. ‘The notable feature was the singing of Mrs. G. W. Hamersly, who has a soprano voice of much sweetness and purity —qualities seldom noted in Association Hall concerts. ‘THe feature of this week's bill at Tony Pas- tor’s is “ Puck or the Woman's Hotel. It is a travesty. We think we have seen the name Puck somewhere, and in this connection. It is doubtless bright and humorous, ACTORS’ ART ASSOCIATION. FIRST ANNUAL EXHIBITION. HERE has of late been noticeable among Sf) the leading dramatic artists of our day a strong tendency to attempt other lines of art than the dramatic. The actor is not con- tent to be actor alone, he seeks to be painter or sculptor as well. ‘The syren songstress is not content to warble “ Pretty as a Picture,” or even to be pretty asa picture; she wishes to be the perpetrator of a pretty picture. Nor are the dramatists and artists themselves ex- empt from this failing. Mr. W. G. Wills, the author of “Charles I." and “Olivia,” now running in London, is a painter. Mr. J. G. Vibert, the artist, is also, in his leisure mo- ments, a dramatist. Why, then, should not Mile. Sara Bernhardt take to sculping? Has she not carved her way to fame and fortune? Whyshould not Mr. Joseph Jefferson exhibit, in London and New York, delightful little landscapes bearing his own signature? Has he not already proved his power of drawing houses? And surely, in these times, no actor need re- frain from pictorial endeavor from lack of suit- able material—“ paper” is only too abundant. House or REPRESENTATIVES SITTTING ON THE PoTTER RESOLUTION, Aged Representative asking a colleague out to beer on it, Exit of Potter. It is with great pleasure, then, that Puck is enabled to announce that the leading actors and actresses, and dramatists and managers, and theatre employees generally, in this city, have formed a society to further each other’s endeavors in the plastic and pictorial arts. The name of the new society is the Actors’ Art Association. _It is already fully organized. Its officers and officials are all appointed. ‘The hall for its first exhibition is engaged, and the exhibition itself may shortly be thrown open to the public. The coliection of pictures which will then be shown, may confidently be counted on to excite unusual interest among those devoted to the drama and to art in general. In painting and sculpture, actors, it must be remembered, are only amateurs, and their efforts are to be judged with the same lenity we extend to paint- ers and poets when they appear as amateur actors. And we doubt if the actors will be as poor amateurs as the painters and poets are as amateur actors. ‘The catalogue is nct yet complete, nor have all the pictures been arranged. It is therefore impossible for us to give the number of each picture, or to say how many there are in all. Several, indeed a many, pictures have been re- jected. The attempt of Mr. Augustin Daly to pass off several French and German chromos as his own handiwork was indignantly rebuked. And the desire, on the part of the proprie- tors of the Brunswick, to be allowed to contri- bute, on the pretext that they had madea great many “ Drawings of Cork,” could not well be gratified. In sculpture, the exhibition will be weak, al- though several poor and improvident actors have offered to exhibit a bust. But, among the pictures certain to be shown, we may fairly be sure of the following: By Mr. H. J. Montague: “Ahead of Lester Wallack.” By Mr. Rowe (G. F.): “ North River Shad.” By Mr. J. K. Emmett: “Sketch in the Dutch School.” By the Dora of Wallack’s Theatre: ‘ Por- rait of a Granger.” By the Crushed Tragedian: ‘A Sothern Scene.” je By Mr. Stephen Fiske: “The Fifth Avenue (after dark), landscape, no figures.”” By Mr. Lester Wallack: “‘ A Devoted Yachts- man.” By Mr. Lawrence Barrett: “The Murder of King Lear.” By the Hon. Bardwell Slote: “A View of | Florence.” By Mr, Frederic Robinson: “Smitten by | Conscience.” By Miss Effie Germon: ‘“ Mother and Child.” | By Mr. Dion Boucicault: ‘Sketches in France.” By the manager of the Park Theatre: “A Deserted Abbey.” By Mr, John McCulloch: ‘The Noblest Roman of Them All.” By Miss Bessy Turner (Miss Beta Avery): “Nocturnal Reverie.” By Mr. George Parkes: ‘The Heart that Pants.” By Mrs. Oates: ‘That Husband of Mine.” By Mr. Mapleson: ‘“ The Last Réze of Sum- mer.” “By Mr. Charles Fechter: ‘A Pearl of Great Price.” By Signor Frapolli: “The C, the C, the Open C.” By Mr. Charles R. Thorne, Jr.: “A Leader Misled.” By Mile. Ilma di Murska: ‘“ The 'Ills of Mar- riage.” By Mr. Edwin Booth: ‘ A Lone Star.” By Mr. Stuart Robson: ‘‘ Balder the Beau- tiful.” By Mr. William H. Crane: ‘Studies of John T, Raymond and Harry Beckett.” By Puck: ‘‘ The Universal Favorite.” A. Z. Answeys For the Anvions, Busrer.—Bust. G. Ovr,—Gee up. HasELTINE,—She's there. Fitz.—We will none of you, Your name is a base imitation of our whilom friend, Phitz, We should not object to this if your paragraphs were like his. But there is adifierence, His we used to put in the paper. Yours seem more naturally adapted to the waste-basket. H.C. D.—Fair youth, whatever else you may see fit to do, don't “throw off” on Puck, About half your poem is up to your usual standard; the rest—we say it in a spirit of love—is light, very light. This would have been excusable a year ago; but since then you have become too good to have a right to be bad. A Suvrerer.—Your poem is pretty and funny for one stanza and five-eighths. On the remaining 3§ stanzas we have wasted much time and thought; but we cannot decide whether the predominant characteristic is idiocy or dirt. We are slightly inclined to think it is dirt; because, in order to use the word ‘ virtue” in a sense in which a fourteen-year-old kid like you ought not to use it, you enrich the English language with a verb to nurtue"—apparently a variation on nurture. We also remark, incidentally, that “revenge” does not rhyme with strange” “meadow” with “shadow;” nor ‘lassie’ By Mr. Theodore Moss: ‘ A Rolling Stone.” | with ‘‘laddie.” At least not in Puck. comicbooks.com |