The Portland daily press., 1895-04-27
JARLEY'S WAX WORKS.
A Brilliant Audience Sees Miss Mary Nc
Cobb's Performance at Pierce Hall, Bos-

The Boston Advertiser thus speaks of
Miss Mary McCobb and her" Jarleys Wax
Works." given in that city Wednesday
evening:
An exhibition of sMrs Jarley's Wax
Works attracted a large and fash1ona BILE
audience to Pierce Hall last evening.
The entertainment was for the benefit
and under the direction of the Massa-
chusetts Society, for the. university edu-
cation of women. The participants were
friends of the society from Boston and
vicinity.
The reviewer must first of all speak
of Miss Mary McCobb of Portland, who
took the part .of Mrs. farley in an alto
gether admira BILE manner. Her wit was
unforcedSand she had the rare and happy
faculty Of knowing just how far to go.
Her makeup, which was changed in
each part, was .perfectlys adapted to the
character, and in the first part especi-
ally Miss McCobb looked as if she, had
stepped out of Dickens's old curiosity
shop.
One of the best hits of the evening was
a telegram purporting to come from.
John Hancock through the mediumship
of spiritual feller,' and which read
"never mind the bones.E Boston ances-
tors nearly all re-incarnated. Go on with
subway"
The lifting of the curtain disclosed
number of figures, first of which was
Columbus, who was wound up. land
went through his colossal act of discoy-
ering America. Lady Jane Grey was
introduced as the most obliging wom-
an in history, and CharlessI. as
prosecutor. Mrs. farley characterized
persecution as good in its way. " If you
have a friend who is in the Salvation
Army, or Christian Science, or an Epis-
copallan, or even a Unitarian, just perse-
cute lively, and he will soon come
around"
Isabella of CASTLE, Ferdinand of Ara
gon and Columbus made a group, and
portrayed the queen giving her jswels
to Columbus to buy two caramels.
Zenobia was the queen of Palmyra, who
basis. Henry VIII. was not among the
figures, but was alluded to as the
founder of the "women's exchange"
Madame Roland was shown in the act
of writing the proclamation Of emanclpa-
tiongof women. She was $50 unfortunate
as to be Jelly timed" Madame Muir
ray was brought on as the mother of
Liindley Murray. who wrote the book:
e. am, thou art. he is, we are, etc. u
The stage was directly connected by
long distance telephone with Queen
Victoria, and frequent conversations
were held over it, the Queen being much
interested in the progress of the enter
tanment.
The last historical characters shown
were the princess Louise and the Mar
quis of Lorne. Mrs. farley wound up all
the figures at once, and they went
through their movements. with the ex-
ception of royalty, which at present"
explained Mrs. farley, sis doing moth
ing"
The second cham Der, consisting of mis-
cellaneous subjects, opened with cow
boy, and in contrast, the president of
the Browning society, who was engaged
i n trying to ascertain who fished the
murex up?n after which he would at
tempt the other riddle, "What porridge
had John Keats?"
Later came Svengali and Trilby, the
former "crlawing the air and giving
her the hip nose, and the latter singing
Benjamin Bolt. Svengali was made over
from the man who tickled his wives to
death. A modern zero was a Harvard
football player, who was allowed to leave
Cam bridge by special permission of the
athletic committee. The member of the
light brigade 400 came by express He
was one of whom it was said: "Their's
not to reason why" and the cause was
that his bellum was more developed
than his cerebellum.
The curtain fell on a most su ccessful
and intaraStjno entertainments