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

Jordan q year or more ago. There the music as
music was good and by the words most happily
burlesqued but it is impossible to buresque bur
esque songs or college dities breathe life ntoI
eorpses whose bones only are left. In "RomeoI
and Juliet" the dialogue is "where the fun comes
in; and the lines make q very clever travesty.
The piece opens with the prologue" sung byI
ht.n,or "a. T. Bartes, with chorus in mask, tol
the air OF "Kafoozalum:"
In ancient days there lived bard
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.
CAo.--Oh! Oh! Bill Shak -es- peare,
Bill Shakespeare, Bill Shakes pelre,
Oh. Oh! Bill Shal>.c s-pearc,
Judge Stipp doubts your Identity.
, Although hi plays are very briGh'
For one who wrote SO long ago
Viewed in our nineteenth century light,
His dramas no great shakes appear
In these fast Geographic times,
Some master mind we ought To find
Some one expert in matching rhymes,
To modernize Old Shakespeare.
Not to desert our race in need,
Though modest men We've taken pen,
And spurrcd our Pegasus at speed,
In rhythmic lists to break a spear.
Tonight fair Juiet's love intense,
The wretched woe Of Romeo,
With all the modern improvements,
We reproduce from Shakespeare.
Begun in this manner fun runs riot CdpRct
and Montague are rival pot-house politicians,
their followers ward bummers and free lunch
grabbers, led by Mercutio Geo. Trimbie)
and Ty6dt (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 tEben 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's dead.
The Nurse III. NJ. Kilby) becomes the fate"
of the Apethccary who makes love to her under
any and in all circumstances; Juliet clarence
Griggs) 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
a wall and dies (poisoned by 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 intermnable 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. II. Crane, made famous by their 1.-TWO Dro-
mics" and sour Bachelors" On Monday even.
ing next they will give the latter play in the OPP
era House in this city. OF "Our Bachelors" the
N. Y World of Feb. 81, 1875 gives the following
sketch:
"Our Bachelors" was produced at the Park
Theatre last night, and from the rising of the
p curtain was q pronounced success.
The dalogne is sparkling and the incidents in
tensely funny. Mrs. 4uO,ser is the keeper Of a
respectable boarding house in which dwell Juan
Bangle (Mr. RobGon), bald-hea bachelor,
who admits that the fortles have begun to claim
his attention; Judge Jocler (Mr. Crane), still
older bachelor, whose one idea in life Is violent
dread of matrmOny and detestatton OF all mar
ried men or men who look as if they were medl-
tatlng matrmony; and DR.. Bruce, weak indisld-
ual, who, while protesting to be desperately in
love, solemnly swears to JOtcer that be will new
er marry. la these characters the chief interest
of the play centers. Mrs. Mo,iser has IL niece
named Bella who loves and Is loved by Dr. Bruce
an Irish servant named NuldOon, who is anxious
to marry his fel!ow-servant Katy; and the Judge
receives into the house his nephew, Ned ITdriHg,
,hf, b,s inst retu frCm us hpr' :