New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-06
Comfy a Jew, at the varieties.

Friend" will recoliect Rich, the Jew, who
was so strangely lovable, manly and up
hight, and whose employer, Christian,
was one of the most contemplate of men.
The author Of this drama, played last night
at the Varieties, has tried bis hand at the
making Of an Israeite similar to this one,
and to Sues Samuel, and has succeeded,
but at the sacrifice of destroying the indi-
VlduaIity OF all the other characters, unless
little Prince is excepted. Motthe,o Daces
rich man, dies early in the action, within
the paWnbroker shop belonging to the Jew,
| and saying ''a Jew will do anything for
money" gives the old fellow an order for
t20OO as an inducement for him to 90 and
hunt up the very last will by which the
dying man repents having been SO hard on
N0talte, and gives her all his immense
estate. The old play-goers know at once
that this will will require to be stolen only
to turn up in the last act and be read; for
Twas ever thus from childhood's hour"
The play-goer is not disappointed. The
parties who steal this instrument" as the
lawyers call it, are Chunks and Crackleg
(hobert Nacajre and Jacques StroD over
AGAIN., gentleman burglar and a sneak
thief respectively. The noble nature OF
Uncle Nathan crops out in every scene, but
he ls over anxious to show he is a good
man, omlts no occasion to advertise him
self as such, and impresses upon every
other one Of the cast this pointed fact. that
a Jew is in short, benevolent and charita-
bIe. The story LIE tells of the little ones he
has lost of his former home, all are 80 many
oolors in the picture, and he certainly
wins the sympathies of the beholder.
The thousand pounds he receives is
deposited in the Bank of England 70 the
credit Of Little Prince. When the burglar
an6 sneak make the robbery Of the will.
the jew fights hard and dies game, with .
gag IN his mouth and tied fast to q chair
and notwithstanding he does his level best 10
defend the Qlunder, they get the best OF him
and make off. !
Hhe little child whom he has befriended.
and whom he loves, comes out of the bed
room Immediately and ''Iets him loose, /
She robbers ask the reward of their rascal |
ity Of C"ookes, in whose favor the old will |
was drawn, and the bargain is struck on a |
promise Of $500 down. the remainder
in notes. of which this man has had lately a
good many "on the street, and then the
90 down into the kitchen TO par
take Of "cold victuals"
The jew comes in to interview Croozes,
tells him he has the only genuine will and
takes his check for five hundred pounds to
deliver it up. By the direction of Nathan
It IS inclosed in papers which are indorsed
. to be burned unopened" and then the old
fellow goes TO see FaMa3ie. When the
'eading of the viii takes place ,alwa7s a
aVorite dramatic catch) the young ladv
1urns it, and the gentleman IN black, who
s now assured he is "master of the sirua-
ion." proclaims the fact that " this house is
nine" Up come the robbers from the
'ellar and make over the real will TO the
lew; the lawyer reads it, everything is
and the young lady, who but
ew minutes before had been dis:nherited.
IL for her love of Raby, a InjtlwrighC, is
CT all she surveys. This is the
7indup.
Not one Hebrew out Of thousand looks
Ike the stage Hebrew. nor is there one ont
+ 10000 who wears the traditional long
cat into which garment the old gubeydine
as dramatically run.
Are we forever to see in Jew OF the
lneteenth century the same Shyl0ck OF the
leventh, or somewhere along there Do
OF the characteristics and outside OF Jews
hange with the Zines 1t seems not.
tage representatives of people who walk
ne streets-rhese people who move in what
oucicaalt calls the contemporaneous
rama-aTe all hewn out of the same wood.
here is only one way to show a Jew-a
ng, coarse coat, stoop III the shoulders
smile about the mouth, gray hair and ,
card, like Lambs old clo' dealer. There
iS-torevef. Every play holds the mir
IT up to some time, and il these days one
IN scarcely tell a Jew from a Christian. as
r as his dress goes. I
1t was the universal opinion of :he Took.
son tha' Mr.. Raymond acted :he par.
ell; that he had studied the situation and \
ways made the most Of its humorous and l
lthetlc touches. His language was e.lo
W comedians, and broken English was \
altered around in all directions and upon c
cry opportunity. There is bu: one 6
aracter here, and lie is the Jew, and +
the others stand in the background.
le author was evidently at loss to know
w to dispose Of Marin Touter. She ap-
ars by proxy in the pawnbroker STOP A
pawn petticoat for a shilling: turns up
the second asking the villain for
'ney, and then dies and makes no b.
n, Tor she is never heard of after pl
trd. The little thing, who is probably Il
reduced TO show the jews love for m
-ldren has been brought up BY Ler (she's e.
out as big as minute), and here the veil es
1rawn. She has accomplished her mis- 7,
H." The play teaches US all lesson that fo
re are no people exclusively bad, and in it
ng this, while another blow is given 10 u
judices, the comedy adds it's mite to the T,
eam of intelligence which flows on and r
from its source in the beginning Of tine. oI
make men greater, wiser and better. a. az
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