, 1872-12-22
CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY DECEMBER e. 1872

'ECEMBER. %, 1872:
"one Of the beau monde" ALL that no has tx
do is to talk q little with Mrs. DooiiAe, and tt
mistake Dillon, when he enters, for signol
himself BY talking about "Eyetalia" and
Ma-ry-oh." His dress is all right, but other.
wise he is far from perfect. He is unnccustomed
to fashionable pariors, and has not get learned
what to do with his legs. When talking with
Dillon, he does not carry on polite converse
ton, but is stiff and unnatural. lie had better
! initiate the ease of his colleague, OF watch somc
gentlemen engaged in talking, and see how they
do it.
Miss Emma Stowe is Bstty-:"a chocolate.
several people by disoboying her instructions,
! aud not being chocolate-colored at all. In q
play like this. where the actors arc known by
their labels, they must be careful to keep them
on or groas confusion ensues, and things get
fearfully mixed up in the minds of tho hearers.
Sometimes she talked Us stage coored chamber
maids are expected to, and sometimes she did
not, which added still moro to the bowildermant
| OF the audience.
Mr. Russell soggs is 1r. Quill, the book
keeper in the millinery store, who is mistaken
| for the Squire, and is chased by tho wedding
| guests, he rushing around with red flannel
shirt and drawers in his hands, which he is try
I ing to get 4 chance to put on. This, you see,
~
he succeeds in struggling into his ahirt, but
since it iB necessary to preserve the decencies,
he puts it On over his white one, which does not
appear to help him much, since ho wanted q
change because the ones he had On were soaked
with perspiratlon. Mr. Soegs is unable to mako
anything out Of his part beyond what is in it. to-
wit: coarse drollery, but that does not provo
| that he cannot play something elso we'll.
abraham 6lo,cgo, aspersonated by Mr.. Wilson,
| may or may not be q local character. Persons
dressing lko this Individual may bo discovered
| By diligent search in the reccsses Of tho rural
towns Of Cook County, but certainly not near
| Chicago. This deaf old Individual who appears
once wrapped up in cotton shcet, which IN
| indulsont audience consent to tako for night
gown, has very little to do except to stump
| around, and talk in loud voice, Mr..
Wilson'S Investigations having shorn him
that all deaf people talk loudly, in order that
M3-. SloacSo is required to laugh, which he does
with that peculiar cackle which IN actor Bup-
poses is appropriate in an old man rallying SONIC
one about . woman Still, Mr. Wilson is not as bad
some other part to get an idea Of what is really
in him.
afiss Mario Louise, as Grace, has very SIM
pie part, whore sho is required to do little but
in the back. The playmakes GRACE simpleton,
and Hiss Marie Louise does and says nothing to
dispel tho illusion. In order that it may bo
known who she Is, and that she is about to be
married by Justice OF the Peace, she wears a
bridal veil, and in all her peresrinations, walk
ing and riding, indoors and outdoors, sho holds
on to her distinguishing mark 90 faithfully as
her father to bis pot Of myrtle.
Miss Kate Meek, as HRS. Deof1tUe, the fash,
she did no; quito talk ike tho person she as-
suC1ed to represent. Or her, and Of Miss Sell
don, who took the part OF Ars. Jc,lkins, one may
say IN the sng1ae Of Poes Justice, "fen
Afr. Tebbcr, as Abe, the ser7ant, does better
the first scene, whom talking With Beuy,-the
person who ought to DO chocolate-colored but il
not,-than further on. where he tells Dillon how
Mrs. Jenkins is carrying on ut his house. Here
ing nothing" He should learn to tell his tale
with something approaching reality, and not to
be forced a2d unnatural.
Mr. Barney figures as Robin,-stA q stupid 1out."
,1 and be- does it. unrelentingy and unm mercifully.
Whether Robin gets angry since Bankslock is
not ready to we'd his cousin Grace, whether ho
boohoos, or whether he tunbles down on his
Knees, and secs queer sights through key
hole: he is essentially stupid. The play makes
Robin q lout, but Mr. Barney succeeds in gliding
refined gold.
The most deplorablo feature OF this play uas
its motley collection OF wedding guests. who
said nothing, afcourse, but who traipaed around
to the chin: and others paraded with bare necks
and short sleeves; but they all agreed in wearing
tho samo detected and hapless sir as that cele-
bra:ed : Wedding Guest who was tackled by tho
or ran about after Digg, as If en-
&fodow ny leader" 'A!''f imaglas zane that st
when Hooley wants these poop1e, he
sends noto to Frank Wentworth. stnting that
him il he will be SO kind as to lend him half
dozen chamber1naids, promising to return them
in good order in couple Of hours. l1r. Went
worth, of course, politely complies. When the
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guests Of that hotel will be puzzled by the like
ness between Mary and Kate, who do The cham
Der work On their respective floors, and two Of
tho ladies' WHO figure in some parlor scene at
prattle about this striking resemblance" after
the play iB over
Would it not be well for Mr. Hoo1ey, rho had
" real art paintings" in one scene to adopt I.
dies " for wedding guests and parlor dummies?
There is no difficulty about securing them.
There arc plenty Of women in Chicago who
Tould BE- delighted at the mere idea OF appear
ing On tho stage, even if they had not word to
say, and they would GLADLY rig themselves out in
their best attire. Thea tho stage rarlor would t
begin to look natural, and it would be filnd with
persons who know how to sit, to WALL, and to
look pretty. Then fancy the changed appear !
nnce of the programme which would read:
First 1YaG; ing Guest-lIiss Alb Cd, Of ;
Wabash sven:o.
Second WEDDING GuestMiss E-f G-h, . :
west Side bellc+ i!
Third Wedding Gucst-,.,Irs. LIN No. Will
appear in her ,can+iful wedding dress
And so OF. .tu E':t1rstun1. How it would draw!
As every beau, friend, md relative of High
school graduate is present on commencement
LAY, SO tue whole retinue of fashionable young
ady would follow her to Hooley's, not as dead
1eads, bat as profitable paying members Of So
;iety, and all Mr. Hooley would have to do would
10 to gather the increase.
Yet, with al these drawbacks, one can spend
. pleasant evening by listening to "a Fun " ut
aooley's. The pleasure would be greater, how
'ver, it somo other play were given, or il tho
present one wore remodclled **+*
LOVES TEST.
Shea the way Is rough, and tho clouds nro darx
In the bendcd SKI above NC,
vill the friends who gathered in other dr5s |
Sill gather nround and love me?
Vill they help me with CHEEKY words,
As ssrive with brave eadeavor? I
Vi1l they tighten the links of Friendships chin