The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-21
Nym Crinkle,s Crinklings.


Public taste changes. fashions die out plays
become obsolete. But Boucicault is there all
the same. With the frost of time on him, sere
and sedate, he comes up smiling in New York
and out of his tired antiquity shows the genera
ton that after all, when i. comes to making a
good play he is still the man. 1.-THE Jilp is the
best play that has been done here this season.
1t is so good in two senses that it is an event
New in treatment, fresh in subject and bright in
its expression, it not only wins critical attention
and commentator, but catches the public.
Marvellous old man is Boucicault So far no.
body has been able to tell where he got the plot
Such raking over of French plays for a week
never saw before. But even Cazauran, who is
tins court of last resort, didn't recognize it.
Boucicault has made three or four fortunes.
He is the rare spectacle of literary man in the
nineteenth century who has literally made mill
ions with his pen. But he never kept his mill
ions. He doesn't know to-day half as much
about money as he does about melodrama. The
Colleen Bawn, still playing all over the world,
has earned millions Of money The "Shaugh-
raun" alone turned in 81, 200, 900. And twelve
years after II was written Bouccault was in New
York without penny. Two or three seasons
ago this Croesus of comedy was barn -storming
in New England with second-rate company.
If you could mash up Victor Hugo, Ruy Bias
and Klopstock into one paste you might spread
out plaster of Boucicault Take Michael An
cello and Joe Howard and rub them into one.
Prince Bohemian, genius, vagabond, Irishman,
Frenchman, actor poet pro6gate, if he were to
tell the story of his own life truly, we'd mistake
it for Munchausen.
There were two events on Tuesday night.
Boucicault one and Balderdash was the
other. 'Pepita, the Glass Eye with a Girl" was
done at the Union Square Theater. 1t was writ
ten by Alfred Thompson, A. NJ. and Solomon
Muss. Doc. But it was built by j. NJ Hill, and
the the builder beats the architects by all odds.
In resplendence it will take the town. It's
whirl of pretty girls. Nobody stops to ask what
they trying to Go. Certainly / cannot tell
YOU You might as we'll try to explain the inner
meaning of burst of sky rockets 1t is some
thing pink and round revolving around some
thing tunefnl and swelling. 1t files, profiles de-
files; it animates corruscates shimmers to bursts
of joyous clamor. Banks of girls stand in gold
en- rain in their pink tights They don't do any
thing in this world but come and go and sing
about it, and in the center is nucleus of Lillian
RUSSELL translucent doubly pink
This is the lenten event the amusement
world. Think of it. The peal of Ash Wednes
day had not died out when this appeal was
made. And, mind you, this Is the interdcted
thing that comes in between the world and the
devil
suppose that "2epita" will be what is called
great success There are no reasons within
reach of the reviewer to account for it, except that
the world wants to see the notes dance in the sun
beam now and then, which, after all, is perhaps
better than to see them dance in orr neighbours
eye. NYM CRINKLE.