Puck — September 25, 1878 — page 7: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

DRAMATIC NOTES. Awwa Dickinson is writing a play. Everyone has conspired to stop the pro- duction of ‘ M’liss” except the public, “Dick Turpix,” “Jack Sheppard,” and ** Mazeppa,” were among the parts rendered at Niblo’s last week. ‘Tue marvelous snow scene in the fourth act of “ Jane Shore,” with which Genevieve Ward has been supported at Booth’s, has made way for “Henry VUL" with Eily Coghlan as Anne Boteyn. ‘Tus is the last week of phenomenality at the Fifth Avenue, Mary Anderson departing hence to Boston. Mme. Modjeska, to whom the aroma of the prairies is like unto Buffalo Bill, succeeds her. Rose Eyttnce has replaced Ada Cavendish at the Broadway Theatre. Mr. Cyril Searle, whom the Londoners said could play Rose Maylie better than Bild Sykes, supports her. Miss Eytinge is a local favorite, and her return here is an occasion for gladness. “Diptomacy” has found a refuge in Brook- lyn. Messrs. Warde, Barrymore, and Majeroni —lItaly’s famed artist —and Mrs. Warde, Mrs. Barrymore, Mrs. Majeroni, and Mrs. Barry- more’s brother, constituting the chief attrac- tions as Beauclerc, Julian, Orloff, Lady Fatr- fax, Dora, Zicka and Algie respectively. “Oxivia,” Fanny Davenport, the pasture- fence, C, A. Stevenson, the spinnet, etc., have departed from the Union Square, and last night the cuckoo clock in the property rvom signalized the char ‘A dramatization of Sardoa’s ‘* Bour, Ju Pont d’Arcy,” other- wise ‘ Mother and Son," is the name of the suc- ceeding novelty. ‘Tue Standard has retrieved itself by the | York So- ere production of Frederic Clark’s Ne ciety comedy of “A False ‘Title. ‘I is some very neat work in it, and the 'aughty Bri- | tish haristocrat, the rigntful heir, comes out all right in the end, with a Yankee heiress in the bargain; while the Hinglish himpostor, who is not the wrongful heir or an heir at all, meets with his just deserts, Levick played the villain weil, but should avoid white neckties for morn- ing costume. Wattacr’s is itself once more—Mr. Bouci- cault’s “Clarissa Harlowe ” having been grace- fully shelved. On Saturday the chool for Scandal” was revived with a quartette of veterans in the leading réles—Mr. Gilbert as Sir Peter, John Brougham as Sir Oliver, Wm. R. Floyd a3 Sir Benjamin, and Mine. Ponisi as Mrs. Candour. Miss Coghlan, and Messrs. Beckett, Holland, Shannon, Rockwell, Edwin, Barron and Coghlan, find more congenial parts than they did in “Clarissa.” Muss Pearl Eytinge appears in the ambitious rdle of Lady Sneerwell, and Miss Boniface effected her first appearance this season'as Maria, a paltry réle which she endowed with much sweetness. INTERV 1EW ING EXT RAORDINARY, A Herald maw has been interviewing Marie Roze’s husband, Mr. Henry Mapleson. “And in what,” said the Hera/d reporter in an off-hand way, as he lingered vis-a-vis over a cup of cafe noir at the Everett House, ‘has your success consisted ?” “In tact, diplomacy, education, sang froid, a knowledge of the public, and, what is the most important knowledge of all in my business, that of managing a prima donna. You take a member of a foreign legation, the manager of a zoological garden, take even Superintendent Walling at the head of the Metropolitan Police force, boil them all down and you will not find more incongruous elements in the fofage than those which make an operatic company and most be adroitly serve We are rejoiced to find that this modest, re- tiring, refined, and cultured young gentleman is such a perfect man of business and of the world, We couldn't have a better authority than himself. It had been noised abroad that he rather lacked these important qualifications, and was what the English call “a duffer'"’—but how this world is given to lying. How to Improve rue C THE WorKINGME DITION OF SUGGESTIONS TO THE SAND-LOT ORATOR. 1. Induce Denis Kearney to go West. 2. Induce Denis Kearney to stay there. 3- Settle the labor-question before Denis Kearney gets started talking in San Francisco. e A Fase. A KNowING peasant who had no need for an axe, exhibited a bright new one to a false friend whom he met in a Lonely Wilderness when none were by. The axe fell on the false friend’s foot and he bled to death. Morat.—Accidents will happen in the best- regulated wildernesses. Ar last accounts, Henry Watterson did not extend beyond the confines of Kentuck: They were getting him under control. Mean while A. Hewitt is listening to the labor lu- natics, and figuring how everyone may be sup- plied with work by the advice of a Congres- sional committee which does r.one itself. 7 LETT! ER SONG IN o A \P EI C HOLE” LEGALL Y EXPRESSED. Piquillo of the first part, being duly sworn, deposes that he isa native and resident of Peru, and by trade, occupation and calling a street singer; that his revenue, income, gain, profit or return from said trade, occupation or calling, is nothing; that he knows and is acquainted with one by name Perichole, likewise a street singer in Peru; that unto said one by name Perichole he now wishes to say good-bye, long life, much happiness, many benefits, good re- turns, and other gains not herein enumerated, named or stated; that after ten minutes shall (or will) have elapsed he will return to said Perichole, and meanwhile hopes and prays that she may please to wait ull his return, or, other- wise, to leave him a letter, writing, or paper, stating when, where, and at what a time he may Address Piquillo. or may not see her. Wuex down the rostrum limps The gay and festive Denis All of us cails he imps — Yes, slimy imps of —Venice. And then he raves around And howls, and swears, and curses, Until, with looks profound, | Which cannot, in these verses, | be justly conveyed to the reader, he remarks | sweetly that he has to pay his own expenses and will be obliged to take up a collection, which he does, the collection being principally wind. Tus is the month when the dry-goods clerk allows his whiskers to grow so that by the first of January he will have a fall beard to back him in his endeavor to get his salary raised. Indry- goods stores men are paid according to their whiskers, not according to their merits. Auswers for the Anrious. Stumr,—You'd better take it. inf. —Weave garlands for his brow, ntric but promising. Don’t be dis- couraged. MABEL Q.—You gentle little creature, don't you know that it was Sydney Smith or Dr. Johnson who cruelly said thay a woman couldn't be reaily witty? Had they you in their minds’ eye when, in their prescience, they knew you were going to write those verses? “*Oh, please, Mrs. Muldoon, mother’s compliments, and would you please beso good and sit down on her trunk? We've all been standing on it and can’t get it shut!” comicbooks.com