North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1865-12-20
shouea ofr his borrowed piumes and dignity 10 GOOD

showed off his borrowed piumes and dignity to good
advantage. Greatness had been thrust upon him
and instead of weighing him down puffed him up
but he kicked his dangling sword rather two many
times. just on purpose, as we thought to make the
boys laugh. LAMPEpos make up perfect He
looked the ' dried up eel-skia" and puke of doc
tor he represented exactly but did not play the
quack strong enough nor did he show fear enough
when old Balthazar proposed to spear him. RoLAN-
Do " the woman hater"-for an impressble young
man--had very difficult part to play. Twas hard
| work for him to make believe y hate, surrounded
by so much female beauty and loveliness. We had
suspicion all along that the fellow had sneak
| ing kindness for the sex,' and not surprised
when he caved in to the charms of Zamora his
pretty page His modified code of etiquette for "the
woods" showed what sort of chap he was The
CogNT talked as if keeping time with an old FASH
| ioned straw-cuter. He bit his words short off We
WILL for the present, cut off as short crtque on
him OLD BALTHAzAR rayed and swore like an in
jured papa with three prftty daughters would nat
urally do, and played the sick man As well as the
we'll man, we'll but by graspng his sword at its
point in his daggering the DR.. showed that he didn't
intend to kill him, but only to measure the depth
of his "jab" | would have been n pity to have
such doating father and dem'd foine painter of
Counts vide, his picture) hung for murder LOPEZ
dress and appearance exhibited less rusticty, than
his tongue did of the Il" sweet Jersey accent" He
was rather too cityfed and foppish for country
bumpkin-but he did drink easy JULIASA, the
would be duchess" entered fully into the spirit of
her part and looked and acted the shrew and Kan
thippe in admirable style. finely trained clear
voice. and distinct artculat ion gave her rank al A
No l int he play. As the subdued, metf morphosed
wife, she showed by the curl of her lip and the snap
of her ewes that there was left in them little bit
of diviltry" voLANTE. with her fine form, grace
full manner, and elegant costume, looked and acted
entirely at home on the stage. Her tongue was
little too niuble, and she fell rather too willingly
into the arms of the Count the rascal had one wife
at the time
Town Talk thinks he would not have declined to
pIay the Count in tn is scene.
ZAuoRA had most difficult part to play, and car
| ried it through charmingy Coming out In those
turkish trousers and quietly standing what to her
must have seemed an age--to he criticised by those
two scape gra ces the Count and Captain on the one
hand and Town Talk on he other, was enough to
cause her heart to utter. We didn't see hers paipi-
tate but presume it did just the least bit In the
world Though as page her dress was neat, her
cap aunty, and her face sweet, even to gtrtshneSS;
| her 90 woman's gear" became her better. Jumping
over ten-ra fences and tee;ering on slab, IN full
| bloomer cost ume, would improve her for page.
Mime HosrEss labored under the disadvantage of a
severe cold which even DR.. Lampedos skill failed
to relieve. Judging from her gentle, matronly de-
| meanor BaIthazar old fool for not staying
with her as long as she'd allow him to do so.
The scenery was fine, the costumes appropriate.
and in some cases elegant In the concluding farce.
Miles Boy brought down the house. His deirea-
ton of a wild, witty, rearing, tearing, rolliekng
| " buoy" from the :" ould sod'' was more than true
to Ife Some of the ladies present thought that he
had strange places which to conceal his ha t. coat
and chara cter. We didn't understand that part o.
he play. DR.. COATES paye d his part of an amor
ous irritable fussy old DIR to perfection; showing
| himself more fidsedty even than Mrs FInGET her
| self who with her handso me daughter acted we'll
| their parts
| No scenes or incidents occurred hehtnd the cur
tain worthy of mcrtiCn, if we accept the fact that
the Dr. after taking one of his own pills, had such
| pain under his vest as to feel like taking some
| thing to take u and under the impression that he
| had 70 nd an ant dote, took small swi- from
quart bottle then and there found containing what
our President Judge. pronounced excellent writing
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