The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-04-17
Amusenents.
ROMEO AND JULIET.

lesque songs college dittes or breathe life intoI
corpses whose bones only are left. In Romeo
and Juliet the dialogue is "where the fun comes
in; and the lines make very clever travesty
The piece opens with the prologue" sung by
Rtsnor Ca. T. Bartels with chorus in mask, tol
the air OF "Kafoozalum;'
In ancient days there lived bard,
A man of note who dramas wrote;
From all the centuries 'twerc hard,
And all the lands, to rank his peer.
He make such perfect poetry
That critics wink, and say they think
That Beemus wrote anonymously,
The works of William Shak es -pearc.
Cho.--Oh! OH Bill Shak -peare,
Bill Shak -pearc, Bill Shak-e s-pelrc,
Oh! on Bill Shak. peare,
Judge S'ipp doubts your idomtite
Although hi, plays are very hriGhl,
For one who wrote So long ago,
Viewed in our nineteenth century light
His dramas no great shakes appear.
In these fast telcgraphic times,
Some master mind we ought to find
Some one expert in matching rhymes,
To modernize Old Shakes peare.
Not to desert our race in need,
Though modest men we've taken pen,
And spurrcd our Pegasus at speed,
In wythmic lists to break spear.
Tonight fair Juliet's love intense,
The wrctched woe Of Romeo,
With all the modern Improvements,
We reproduce from Shak. cs pcare.
Begun in this manner, fun runs riot. CapuIdI
and Montague are rival pothousc politicians,
their followers ward bummers and free lunch
grabbers, led by Mercutio Geo. Trimbe)
and TyJah (Chas Caton). Like all good BUNS
they get drunk early and often and reconcile
the feud between the two houses in the first act
Indeed all the motif of Shakespeare Is reversed.
The Apothecary (Eben Beaupre, Aurora,) appears
IN the first act because he claims
The right
To play leading character tonight
II you don't like it--lumpit Shakespeare dead.
The Nurse III. NJ. Kilby) becomes the 'fate"
of the ApethecarN who makes love to her under
any and in all circumstances; JulId Clarence
Grggs) is husband hunter of 80 or 40; Friar
Laurence Horace HulD lover of good living
and of fees. Romeo Henry Cole a susceptible
but persistent fortune hunter who appears with
I wall and dies (poisoned by a bottle of pop
in the most approved style, having first
spread his lace handkerchief to save his
clothes and curled his mustache with the AID
OF hard mirror. He is resurrected by the use
OF stomach pump; when the marriage Of the
loving pair is sanctioned by the old man. and in
surance agents made happy by the good health
of both.-The fun is interminable and generally
good; but for the pose of this sketch the
reader will have to imagine what it is like-we
can't quote the whole libretto.
1t was put on the stage in capital style; the
acting and singing were very good SO far as sing
ing could get any music out Of the old songs :;
and all went off without hitch of any kind,
giving great satisfaction to large houses.
ROBSON & CRANE.
Few stars are better known or more popular
all over the country than Stuart Robson and
VIM. H. Crane made famous by their 1.-TWO Dro-
mics" and "Our Bachelors" On Monday even
ing next they will give the latter play in the OPP
era House in this city. or "Our Bachelors" the
N Y. World Of Feb. 81 1878, gives the following
sketch:
"Our Bachelors" was produced at the Park
Theatre last night and from the rising of the
curtain was pronounced success.
The dialogne is sparkling and the incidents in
tensely funny. Mrs Mouser is the keeper OF a.
respectable boarding house in which dwell Juan
Bangle tMr. Rob6on), a bald headed bachelor,
who admits that the fortIes have begun 10 claim
his attention; Judge Joacler (Mr. Crane), still
older bachelor, whose one idea in life is violent
dread of matrimOny and detestatiOn OF all mar
ried men or men who look as if they were medl.
tating matrimony; and DR.. Bruce weak indiVid-
ual, who while protesting to be desperately in
love, solemnly swears to JOcler that he will new
er marry Ia these characters the chief interest
Of the play centers. Mrs. Mouser has niece
named Bella who loves and Is loved by Dr. Bruce Il
an Irish servant named -Huldoon, who is anxious
to marry his fel!ow-servant Katy; and the Judge
receives into the house his nephew, Ned Wdring
who has just returned from Paris by his fathers
direction for the purpose of marrying wealthy
young widow, Mrs. Clinton. This lady he meets
in Central Park, and, without learning her name
or address, falls in love with her OF course he
readily agrees with his marriage hating uncle tol
resort 10 any plan by which he can avoid a mar
rage with the lady to whom his father has sent
him. Mr.. Bangle in the meantime, who has been
a teacher of music and has numbrIe ed amongl
his pupils Mrs Clinton and her dependent cousin
Clara, now comes into some money and and de.
termnes to sacrifice the friendship of JO,cer by
marrying somebody With these preliminary
circumstances clearly explained by the quick
action Of the play the rearing fun begins in
earnest, and is kept up until the end, arriving al
a sub climax IN every actin the third over I'll
david Garrck" assumption Of intoyicaiOn hyl
VdIiHg tu disgust hi. hciroihed. whom he diS
covers l., he the young lady he saw in the Park
and Ivy whom he was conquered and in the third,
when Bangle and Jo,rler are driven wild with tx
ctemrri ard resort 10 violence against each
other-Mr Robson il as funny ever All hel
has Ia do u l., use his conIical voice and smi lie
complacrnilv and the audience laugh forthwith.
Mr.. Crane is stror and OutTsgeOusly smLslng."
The support will he the same now playing
in Chcapo in "Sbarps ana Flats" Seats now
on sale at Simon Bros.'
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