Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-05-19

his legs and stands as firm as . rock. and yet
under Sulivan's blows he was knocked about
s Se n son oSw o
people hold their breath Mitchell was standing
perfectly poised and looking like q tower OF
strength. when Sullivan caught him clip under
the chin with his left hand. Mitchell rose into
the air as II shot from the earth, and fell dead
weight on the floor. He got up minute later
with his face as white as Q sheet and his eyes
halt starting from his head. He looked as
though he did not know what had struck him,
near Sullivan. It was an awful blow, but Sui
livan gave 1t to him time and again Mitchell,
who had repeatedly whipped the best men In
England, could not begin to stop Sullivan's
blows. He Is q tough and sturdy fighter, and
full Of pluck but Sullivan knocked him about
like shuttleeock.
DOT BoUCIcAULr.
| Dion Boucicault's son made his debut In New
York at the Star Theater. The Star is Wallack's
old theater. After failing under the manage
ment Of German company, Mr.. wsllack took
1t back and decided to play 1t as q combination
house. He opened with Mr.. Boucicault, and
that genial Irish gentleman has been banging
away at the public for some months but every
thing 30 far produced has been more or less q
failure. During the whole season Mr.. Bouci-
cault has talked Of the great play he was to pro-
| duce called the "Amadan." Therefore the peo-
pie expected great things when they went there
Tuesday night. But they were disappointed.
The comedian and his son appeared In the same
play. 1t Is astonishing that any man should be
allowed to write such play and live; but Bou-
cicault has taken so many risks with the public
In the course Of his adventurous career as q
playwright that he has become case-hardened
and reckless. In the canadian" the elder Bou-
cicault plays villainous money grabber, and
his son plays an idiot boy. AS a vllanous
L a. D0.1o 10.
ical as pathetic idiot the younger
Boucicauk is dsagreeable. The most re-
| markable thing about the play Is the facility
with which the Boucicault's father and
son come to life after being repeatedly killed The
fact is you could not kill them. In the first act
| the boy was shot through the head by a land
lord. and his body was carried on the stage. He
| said few dying words and closed his eyes. The
curtain fell. The next act he was on and as
| happy as ever. In this act he threw the elder
ined by three other people after he was found
on the beach, and pronounced dead. The next
act he walked right In and went on with the
play. This time they not only killed him, but
marble slab on the top of it, while his son and
the heroine went into a cavernous pit. from
| which there was no escape, and in which they
must have been inevitably drowned by the rising
tide afterward. But they all came out right
again the next scene bright, blooming and
happy. This sort Of thing became monotonous
after awhile. and the audience began to feel sus-
| piciOus. The fact that Boucicault could not be
killed seemed ominous, and the most touch
ing scenes produced roars of laughter
widest impossibilities, but the old man claims
that it is quite as great as the "Shaugraun.' y
The Boy (young Boucicault) shows q great deal
OF comedy talent, and has q fair voice, which
ne uses well In singing He did not have q
chance to make a very deep impression, and the
audience guyed the piece quite hopelessly all
the way through. Dramatic talent seems to be
hereditary, tor the boy certainly shows strong
| traces Of his fathers humOr. So It was with
Lester Wallack and his father. Booth is an
other eminent example, and LyttOn SOthern,
who is to come over shortly and play an en-
gagement here, is said to be as great an actor
as his father, the great Dundreary.
PRINCE T1LDEN
| saw young Beverly Tilden at the theater the
other night, in faultless evening dress, with a
huge solitaire glittering in his shirt and another
on his finger. Somehow. his appearance was a
SURPRISE not only to me, but to everybody else.
1t IS the first time he has been out since his law
suit began, and people expected him to wear old
clothes and appear downcast and poverty
| stricken. But he did not. He was quite as easy
| going and good natured as ever, and looked fully
as wealthy as he did two years ago. He is one
of the three sons of the late William Tiden who
have run through 1t all, though the eldest is only
| twenty-three years of age They have now insti.
| tuted a suit against the executors Of the estate
to ascertain If there is any more money left, and
also to show cause why they gave minors so much
money. One Of the youngster. while only eigh-
teen years old, spent one hundred and seventy
five thousand dollars in Europe. Beverly has
been living very fast Of late, and playing high.
He has had more horses than he could
drive, and gave innumerable suppers at
Delmonic0s. He is q member of the Turf
| club, and squandered thousands over the bac-
carat tables there. One of the freaks of the boys
at Berlin, few years ago. caused great deal of
talk in Europe. They gave grand ball to all
the Americans In Germany. The thing was car
| ried out In the most extravagant style, and cost
| 80 many Thousand dollars that the thrifty Ger
| mans have not yet stopped wondering at It.
Tilden Is slight young man with weak eyes, q
small mustache and curly hair, which he combs
up nom his forehead. He was not particularly
popular even when possessed of practically un-
| limited means; now that he has lost his money
he will not be tolerated.
LIGHTNING TICKERs."
Nothing is fast enough for the men In the
Stock Exchange. / see that new company is
| being formed to put In what are known as
lightning tIckers." The present indicators
| certainly seem to 60 fast enough for any out
siders Quotations reel or almost as rapidly as
| they can be pronounced, but that Is not fast
enough for the brokers. The new machine Is to
send out the quotations like shot. Not the
fraction of a second will be lost in giving them
to the brokers, and the result will be that the
old indicators will be rooted out and new ones
substituted in their places. The increased speed
of these tickers is obtained by some mechanical
arrangement In the instrument covered by q
patent 1t Ia said they will be equal to report
ing the most exciting sales and purchases of the
board with the utmost rapidity. 1t makes life
on the street a little faster, and Is therefore
pleasant to the brokers'
THE WORLD ON THE COACHERS.
Col. John Cockrill, who shot Slayback In the
Post Dispatch ONCE, is now in full charge Of
! the World He viii, undoubtedly, make 1t lively
for the newspapers here, but it will be bad
policy for him to make any more mistakes such
as he has made in the case Of the Coaching
Club This club, which is by all odds the most
arstocratic in New York, had its annual outing
. few days ago, when the members drove down
to Mr.. William K. Vanderblt's place on Long
Island. It is drive of fifty-one miles, with
five changes of horses, and is altogether q most
enjoyable trip. Among the men on the coach were
Messrs. Roosevelt, Parker, Havemeyer, Jay,
Fritsche, Schermerhon and Bronson. Decorons
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