Morris tribune., 1882-09-28

that in Paris people go simply to see opera
boutfe. Americans are not satisfied with
seeing alone, they want to hear as WE'LL
Now, Tkeo has no singing voice, and as
regards her saying and expressing the
simplest things as if they contained the
most horrid suggestions, and this with the
look and pcrtness OF q child that does not
know it Says,-AmeriCans are not edu-
Gated up to the Refinement of the Partisan
boulevardien. People go to see her and
pay their two dollars for an orchestra seat
but the little graduate from the cafe chan
tant has failed to make a sensation and
thus visit to the Fifth Avenue theatre is
not among the rigid requirements OF
fashion.
theatrical managers often have queer
ways of advertising their attractions and
dramatic stars of innate modesty must
frequently suffer when they see the dubi-
Gus methods employed by the managers
of their business to induce the public to
come to see them. Thus, the manager of
Minnie almer, to Guido every other COM
petitor hit upon the vulgar, TO say the
tising-her linen. The poor girl is said to
have cried bitterly when she learned of
this, his latest vagary, but he insisted that
it was all right; that it was business; that
he had to do it, and so on. DAILY however
has capped the climax in the advertising
line In the first act of "Mandind"
Punch and Judy show is ION" The Punch
and Judy show however, failed to cover
the utter wretche ness of the play, and
thus novel advertising became necessary.
what was he to do? After two weeks OF
cogitation he hit upon what he thought
capital idea. 1t was to have a miniature
| Punch and Judy show in Madison Square
! Park, to whet the appetite of passers by,
| for the big show at his theatre across the
way. Fortunately for the honor of the
dramatic profession the park commission
ers refused him Il permit. The drama
must indeed be in a bad way when such
methods are adopted to coax the people to
go and see a new play.
The lion of the week has been MIR.
Alexander NJ. Sullivan, the Irish leader
aud patriot" as his countrymen admiring-
| ly term him. l had the pleasure of meet
ing him at the house of Il prominent Irish
American and was much Impressed with
him. He is Al man of medium height, and
slight figure. His hair and beard are griz:
zled, his eyes are ue and are singularly
open and attractive, and his manners are
winsome in the extreme. After conversing
with him for five minutes you feel as if
you had known him for years. The lady
members of his family are equally attrac-
tive. Their first desire after the fOrmali-
ties of receptions had been gone through
with, was to see the stores, and some
ladies volunteered TO take them out shop
ping. They returned in the evening i'm
Intensely pleased with all they had seen
The stores simply enchanted them, and as
regards prices, they said that the idea that
one could buy things SO much cheaper in
Londen was all folly. American ladies
pleased them immensely. One of them
observed that a person ght walk through
London for week without seeing as many
pretty women as one could find here of an
afternoon. In their opinion our women
dressed much more neatly and tastefully
than English ladies. and in their appear
ance and grace were true Parisiennes.-
Nowhere in the world were children
dressed as prettily as in this country, and
said she, half II dozen afternoons on
Broadway and in the Stors is alone worth
a trip across the Atlantic"
The International Rifle Match is over,
and as was expected, the Americans were
disgracefully beaten, the British team
leading them 10 points at the conclusion
of the second days shooting. The lack of
QlSClpllnG among our iliell, tlle iHitIiolhy
of their weapons and their lack of skill in
hitting the target at long ranges was pain
fully evident. But, the experience will
not be thrown away if the members of the
National Guard promptly set out and profit
by it. The hurrah feeling of "Amerca
leads the word' will not lead to victory
by itself, and the sooner American manu-
facturers of firearms find out that they
have still something to learn the better for
them. The match was not at all vel
managed and the officers of the National
Rifle Association, under whose auspices
the shooting occurred, showed deplor-
able lack of exective ability. Tie fact il
that in the Association there are too many
Generals, Colonies and Majors. A few
simple privates would leaven the dough Of
which the Association is apparently COM
posed, wonderfully