Show the audience la boiton cotton herald I 1 often wonder what it is about the that seems to imayo euca a peculiar effect on the average spectators mental faculties we bay an intelligent audience of roost of the gatherings in that favorite playhouse andrit in the times more er fess that I 1 have been there gome donkey has spoiled a scene by laugh ing anen laughter was as much out of place aa in a church poor warren used to buffer terribly from this inopportune tribute to his re as a comedian for DO matter how pathetic he ought to be and often was the donkey element pig pled fit to kill itself thereby making the rest of us hope a righteous retribution would overtake ill fiolo whether in the orchestra or gallery it used to be said of warren he could not open his mouth without an audience roaring so that a tender serious pathetic line was quite thrown away in bis part and now it is to be feared rat sir is to share this same fate he having stepped into warrens niche and begun to wear warrens baskins buskins and mantle finds his pathetic points spoiled fur him in the regular old museum style why anybody saye au idiot should laugh at that moment of pain and dismay in hands across the sea when tom returns to find the girl he thought he was engaged to to another ia best known to the intelligent audience no doubt mr would prefer to make people laugh than cry but it is no compliment to bis art when they laugh in the wrong alce As this catastrophe con occurs at the museum I 1 iufer either ivinson is the funniest fel low alive or some malign spirit if secreted under the seats had given into a slate of machination cachina tion |