The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-01-11
DoNALDsoNVILIE. La. SATURDAY JANUARY Il, 1908.
NEW ORLEANS LETTER.
A Transparent Costume-Plays and Play
Eiers-A Press Agent with Guile.
Political Lflnerieks.
stan Correspondence Of The chief.

gave the vulgar but undeniably clever
impersonation OF q fellow in his cups,
thereby shocking the fine sensibilities
of Madam Garry Nation. who was
besieging New Orleans at the time
got of particularly good joke which
may be as new to you as it was to ne.
The story was OF an old eolored
nanny who was witnessing a vaude-
Vile performance. In one OF the
numbers magician and sleight OF
hand man read from a paper held be-
fore him while blfndfolded with a
single thickness of flannel. Nanny
watched him with suspicious interest,
but when he repeated the performance
through double thickness of material,
she arose majestieally and made her
outraged way to the exit declaring
sonorously: ''Uh-uh; dis amt no
place fuh lady in eallker dress!'
I went to Blaney's Lyric Theatre for
the first time last Saturday afternoon
and enjoyed most delightful presen-
tatton of ''Trilby,n Potter's dramati-
cation OF Du Maurier's famous novel
OF that aame Jane Oaker and Viii
liam Farnum were al Ito be desired in
the leading roles, but I was also i'm
pressed with the. general excellence OF
the stock company, and there was only
one incident which, in my opinion,
marred the performance. That was
the fact that the good looking chap
who played the part of Little Billeeo
was guilty OF a veiled but nevertheless
manifest filtration with q trio of gig
Cling young women in the second row
OF the parquet. It was not exaltlng TO
note "Billee'sn glances travelling del
icately over the footlights even when
eng aged In the most impassioued
scenes with "TriIby.n Marshall Far
nun, who played the part OF "Due La
Rochemartel, was especially clever.
'tForty-Fiye Minutes from Broad
Way,' was here last year, but that
made very little difference IL the pa
! tronage that was accorded 1t this sea-
L
| ssKfd Burns'' and Emma Carus as
'.Plain Mary shared the donors and and
the songs .Mary Is a Grand Old
Name, and $50 Long Mary, called
| for repeated encores. Forty Five
Minutes'' is not merely musical con.
edy as many fancy it, but regulation
| little play wherein is developed plot
at once touching and amusing. The
l =, arb bo
| dialogue is distinctly original. My
other in the second act, Il know Wo-
men like book-that's why m a
| bachelor The Man Who Takes Me
To The Theatre declared that to be the
brightest line in the play. Aforesaid
Man nearly took me off my feet-rhet-
| orically speaking, OF course-by an
| nouncing TO me that George Cohan,
the author of t.Forty- Five Minutes, y
is an Irishman, and not Hebrew as
[, and doubtless many another, have
| imagined for 10! these many moons.
ssCoh an is regular old Irish handle, =
| enlarged nv inform mant; aWhere did
you ever know of a Hebrew Cohen who
used the "a instead of the se' in the f.
nal syllable OF the name?a
The next time little Johnny Chaffe,
| the Orpheum press agent, gives me a
razzle.dazzle story about a ventrilo-
auist and his near-human dummy.
| he, John, will have to present me with
| an affidavit duly sworn to and signed
by aforesaid Ventriloquist-and the
/ dummy, too, for th at N after. No more
shall have that motley jester, Harle-
quin, making merry over the innocent
guIlibility of your local correspond
en6, and calling my friend John a
/ willy fellow for working The Chief for
| nearly a whole column-in reality
twas only a half column. That ven
triloquist story was apparently moth
ing more nor less than flight oi
johnny Chaffe's very remarkable i'm.
aginatien, though he asseverates te
the contrary with nqlifted eyes and
cris-crossed heart.
Here are couple of political Inner
/ ieks that came 10 me in q moment 81
| sublime inspir alton this morning:
So handsome and dashing is Jared.
His election would plainly be carried
Il the maidens who dote
On his picture could vote
But never mind girls, he IS married.
I'd hate Jared 7. to feel slighted,
Or Theodore aught than 'dee-lighted,
But the best can see
OF the candidates three
Is Pharr-wonld you call that Pharr-sighted
/ Verify, poets are born not made
but then, so are mosquitoes and othe
pests. II. b.
Our People and Their Ex-pfesldents.
In its issue of January the Youth