THE COURIER.
around a 6crappy country like Japan
there is serious danger of another inter
national difficulty unless indeed he
quickly mellows in the far away land.
The idea is generally entertained that
Judge Dundy may not ever sit on the
bench again at least that his judicial
service is practically over. He may,
under the law, retire on pay. in three or
four yeare. lie is now on an indefinite
leave of absence. There is a bill in con
press to divide Nebraska into two dis
tricts, and there is a prospect that it
may be passed by this congress or the
next. Senator Thurston and the influ
ences at his command are supposed to
be pushing it If Nebraska is ever
made into Jt wo judicial divisions it is
probable that the Platte would be the
dividing line, and the headquarters for
the South Platte district would be .Lin
coln, which would be of benefit to the
attorneys of this city and to the city
generally. Probably the best litigation,
from the lawyers' standpoint, would be
placed in the hands of practitioners here.
There would be an additional judge,
Dundy or bis successor remaining in
Omaha, the new judge to reside in Lin
coln. If this bill should become a law
during the Cleveland administration it
would not be at all improbable that
John Ames would be appointed. Re
publicans and democrats, everybody in
fact, concedes Mr. Ames1 eminent fit
ness for the position.
THE EDITOR.
THE STAGE
The "Count of Monte Cristo"' played
to an undeservedly small house on
Wednesday evening. James O'Neill is
so good an actor it is suprising he is not
a great one, and he is great at times.
But great moments separated from each
other by other moments of mediocrity
are not enough to make a mao im
mortal. The play of "Monte Cristo"
shows the effects of compression. It is
a long story full of action and it takes
Dumas hundreds of pages to tell it. The
play is like a dwarfed giant. In "Ihe
Devil's Auction" which played here a
little while ago, they put a tall man in
to a shallow box and turned him out
about the shape of a thick pancake.
Book plays are not easily understood by
those in the audience who have not read
the book. The author unconsciously
presumes upon a previous knowledge
and the unfamiliar and larger part of
the audience is mystified. To add to
the mystery -of Monte Cristo the actors
on Wednesday night spoke rapidly and
with a chocolate drop in their mouths.
I thought they did well to speak at all
with their mouths so full of something
and in such a hurry too, as they all
were. Wm. Pasco, who piayed Nortier.
cannot be included in this criticism nor
can Albert Sackett. They spoke their
lines deliberately and with some regard
for the feelings of the audience and
they were comprehended in spite of the
thunder und lightning and darkness
which was almost a constant accom
paniment of the dialogue up to the fifth
scene. The play is full of sudden death
and overshadowed from the beginning
by an impending sense of calamity
which keeps ones back bone a viaduct
for chills. The most surprising thing
is the denouement which comes as sud
denly as a clap of thunder. After Dan tee
kills the usurping husband, his wife and
son appear suddenly, he rushes to em
brace them and the curtain goes down
on the united three, with Dantes point
ing his significant and historic finger to
heaven. S B H
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Alexander Salvini will make his
appearance at the Lansing theatre
within a fortnight, for the first time in
two years.
We are promised at an early date a
new and highly sensational realistic
comedy drama entitled "The Sidewalks
of New York." It is from the clever pen
of Mr. Scott Marble and deals with
the scenes and incidents of modern life
in the great cosmopolitan city. Rough
ly judging from newspaper and crim
inal annals there is a great wealth of
material in the city of New York ready
for the expert hanj of the author and
playright. It would seem unnecessary
and impossible to exaggerate any of the
features of our metropolitan daily life
or to make them more weir d, tragic and
extraordinary. Only that license
which is permissable in the grouping
into the continuity of a story, poem or
acting plot, and the skill to do so enter
tainingly, is required. In "The Side
walks of New York" we are to be treated
to some of these sensational features
clothed in beautiful and realistic
scenery and illustrated by the best
modern stage effects. The entire action
of the piece is laid in New York city and
Brooklyn. It deals with a pretty story
of the love of man and the constancy
of woman through rough and adverse
circumstances; whom the seething
waters of deception, hatred, jealousy, re
venge and crime threaten momentarily
to engulf. There are many striking
features of "The Sidewalks of New
York," which will b3 eajoyel by those
who want their amusement pabulum
spiced and strongly flavored. At the
Lansing theatre Thursday, Feb 13.
The Holdens will close their success
ful week at the Funke with a matinee
this afternoon and a farewell perform
ance in the evening. This afternoon the
bill will be "Little Lord Fauntleroy;"
tonight, "Tom Sawyer."
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