, 1881-12-18

stanchest ally; there was Willie Winter, OF
the Tribune, who takes an unkind word OF
John rs personal injury; there was Stephen
Fiske, Of the Star and the Spirit. who
doesn't want to see Mccullough 10
anything ie can't exhaust the English
language to praise, and there the
whole Of them had to sit and witness the
baldest and most pretentious lot Of rubbish
put Oh a metropolitan stage in long while.
1t wasn't bad enough to be- funny: there
was nothing to laugh at; one could only sit
and listen to the efforts of excellent actors to
lift into some prominence the tlattest sort Of
dlalog and dulleSt kind Of action. The Storm
tised rs 4 stirring scene, such rs we had not
had OIL the stage before, was so utterly u1-
equal to its b0on.ing description that it pro-
voked laughter Instead OF applause.
John ' y: was done .! np IN lots Of armor: he
tncased III stove-pipes; the puddug-dlsles
! on his knees cIashed with excitement; the
ceal-ltod on his head stirred as tile short
hairs stuck up underneath! it with wild de-
sire to do something. He had a tremendous
Il collar made of I'LL ice-pitcher; slIyer-plated
walters were llitched On his breast and plas-
tered on his back; he would have broke up
and made :.l fifty Prizes r tor tarEet-excqr-
the ,storming Of the bridge a wild
aud tlmult0us scene-and if one wild and
tumultous man surging up and down among
lot OF tranquil and automatic s1lpers could
haye done it John Mccullough was the lad.
Through live acts Of turgid oratory his
voice trumpeted with yigor and persistency.
Miss Forsytne gave up the battle the first
scene; she has to be crowned by dozen
rhstics as rural queen of some woodland
fGte, and that operation always crashes
woman; the wreath is sure 10 be unbecon1-
ing: the man always puts it OH as he would
pitch a QUOT. So When the rosy crown
struck her OIL the left eye she abandoned the
struggle, and poor Mccullough played the
Report las it that Mrs. Jessie Fremont has
written another fye-act play for this good
natured gentleman. Let lis hope it may not
r. any way resemble ''l1c Bondtnan - of Mr..
At Abbey's Park, MI. Sims, the author of
tho Lights Of London" Is represented by
his "A1other-in-Law," and lisa jolly, laugh
able play-not great reduction, but an en-
joyablc one. Like "Baby'' and Pink Dom
mos" domestic complications and awkward
encounters 1nakes much of tile fun, but its
tone is clean. It's Il play girl can take her
mother to see, and that can't be said OF all Of
them.
Tie London holiday papers come to us
early this year. aud they arc particularly
splendid. The Graphic and London Ne1rs
give thirty-six pages each, and a huge col
orcd chrome. The pictures are all capital,
and Pears soap advertisements on the OUT
side sheets Of the Nelps are really WORKS Of
art. Il. S. Marks, a Royal Academlcian,
is not above drawing fine cartoon
representing two monks washing and
shaving with the Pears manufactures. For
this page the artist must certainly have been
royalty paid, as it looks rather odd to see so
distinguished name attached to all adyer-
tislng picture, however splendidly executed.
Wallack's Theatre opens next Wednesday
night. The boxes will be sold at auction,
and seats command fabulous prices even
now.
Mr.. Wallack presents his company in "The
School for Scandal" lie knows the public
then to. will put on his new play and the
same people will crowd i'll to see the piece.
The late disaster in Vienna has melted
New York managers to great precautions
lengths of hose are laid about on the floors Of
the lobbeys, and rcassuring pals and big axes,
that have protecting glitter on them. are
hung on the walls. The great trouble is that
III season of need the people to use these
traps are not on hand like the cheerful wart
or the merry run-round. They had an iron
curtain i'll the King THEATRE but it
was not used, and if an attempt
had been made to lower it, two to one the
blamed thing wouldn't have worked; there
would have been screw loose or screw too
tight; but always over the stage portion Of q
theatre there should be skylight that could
In. +c;J In T,,ifH
then somebody safe in the street could open
all outlet for flames and smoke; the andito-
rium would act like the vent in the front Of 4
stove, carrying everything awayup the OPEN
ing over the top of tile stage.
Its the smoke that atfrlghts people, and its
the affrighted people who do most of the
damage, madly walking over their fellow
At the Park some time ago there was a
smoky smell blown i'll at the front Of the
house over an audience. In an instant the
people were transformed into idiots; a mild
"A won1an in case Of alarm for man to
carry out like damp handkerchief over his
arm in dead faint. Behold the smoke was
sIne1led, the people rose; we were all sit
ting near the thdt W esn1ea street e e.
to"'si to save % our precious livss let alone
our good clothes, was to walk
quietly out in the rear-the smoke came
from the frOnt-anu to the front rushed
the frightened fools. This one little woman
rose; She dashed at ME and carried away a
piece of my ear and all the cuticle off one
side of my neck; Il bald-headed fat man went
down before her like he was struck BY can
noll-ball; she kept oil her mad career; she
walked up tho backs Of people; she spread
disIl,ny, like mustard-plaster, over the
shoulders Of that crowd. And when the ex-
element was over and people went back to
their places, that small, tilnid woman de-
cIared she IS thought she should have drop
ped; that she had never been SO crushed;
that folks acted like brutes," ete.-when she
could lave filled ward in hospital with
her wounded.
Instead Of laying hose round the lobbies, |
3Ir. Managers, have an air-tfs.p i'll your roofs,
and have SOME engine to play valerian OF
choroform or some other calming drug in
on the excited women. III. II. r.
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