, 1876-10-08
Liebl;ng's Next Concert...The
Late Jirah D. Cote...
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Operate Gossip at Home
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THE DRAMA.


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examination Of the piece at this time will not be
unkind, since the author has had full chance
to test it's merits upon the public, and anything
that shall now be written in the way OF dispraise
can have but small effect. It may be said, to
start with, making no reserve or qualification,
that the piece is very bad. It's chief fault is 8
1abored diffuseness, which spreads out every
act but one to faulty proportions. The fun be-
comes thinner and thinner as the climax of the
action is approached, and disappears altogether
before the curtain has fallen. t'Brass :" is not a
play to be pleasantly remembered. The frothy
substance which enters largely into its compost
ton yanishes in cool and healthy atmosphere,
leaving behind an insipid and odorless base.
The effect is eyanescent because the quality
Of the hurnor is SO poor, consisting, as 1t does,
almost exclusively OF puns. Discrcetly and
tcmpcrately used, the pun is useful instru~
ment, but it never yet, without material assist
ancc from other sources, made any great repu-
tation. In the drama, the pun has no position
at all; it degraics every composition into
which it enters so far as it eau. Shakespeare
was punster, It is true. but every punster is
not q Shakespeare. Mr. Rowe's puns in Brass''
arc good, but they arc not drama. They do
not exhibit character, or construct situations.
There is, however, q character In the early part
ut the play who later on becomes mctamor-
phoseu lnto IN undressing parsonage. Ihs
s.ad ~ II - tnE .5Pe Mnen Sano9! H. roose cfe
handsomely. but reforms in the most disgusting
manner in the second act, and theneeforth loses
ais value for dramatic purposes Il he had
teen lIsaii ~ I n1a. We "oolo aoe na'e IT.
Brass - is not without situations, but, With
the exception Of one in the third act, they are
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