Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 5, 1880, Page 9

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THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, SETS MBER .5, 1880--SIXTREN PAGES. = THAI WHICH PLEASES MANY 2 *PLEASES LONG, Le CONTAIN SOME MERIT “AND. COMPANY, HAVE ook SY aD $625 TIMES, 9 ENGAGEMENTS, IN CHICAGO. WLGk2E TIMES, 2 ENGAGEMENTS, IN NEW YORK CITY. M.€PEB TIMES, 2 ENGAGEMENTS, IN SAN FRANCISCO HIS. TENTH ENGAGEMENT BEGINS TO: MORROW, eee 6 —— i THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1878, SAID: ' JOSHUA WHITCOMB, YANKEE FARMER, AT THE LYCEUM THEATRE, They 7 gave out gilt-edged programmes at the Lyceum Theatre last evening to celebrate the Seventieth , performance, excluding matinees, of the piece which forms the setting for Mr. DENMAN THOMPSON’S delineation of an old Yankee farmer, yclept Joshua Whitcomb. People have recently been finding out that such a piece was running over there, where pieces have never | run of late years, except into the ground. A man would say to you, “Have you seen Uncle Josh ?” ‘You woull reply in the negative. of tickled recollection---and say, “Go.” “What is he like; what is the piece about ?” “Oh, never i i Straightway he would broaden intoa grin---the grin ; I mind about the piece and the plot, and all that critical flummery that keeps a man asking him- ; self if he ought to laugh; just go and roar at him, he’s a Yankee farmer.” & man stops you in the street and says, “Do you know that Bergh has been laughing!” Having | After a week or two . | i seen that Knight of the Rueful Countenance rise in the Court of Special Sessions to demand the | punishment of the father of a half starved family, who was working a horse with asore ear, an | “unheard of cruelty, Your Honor,” you deny the possibility as you would that a Hoboken ferry- boat had been caught grinning. He thrusts a card froma newspaper under your nose. “Itisa | long time since I enjoyed such a continuous and hearty laugh as you afforded me last night,andI | feel better for itthis morning.” That settles it. If you cannot see the rare spectacle of Mr. Bergh | laughing, you can, as the next best excruciatingly funny thing in the world, go and see what | caused it. You go, you laugh, you chuckle, you grin and roar. You find something rising in your throat, and something like tears starting to your eyes; in an instant you are pockis with : | ae again like a 3- your old. Itis adifficultmatter to sit down and cesenihe it. MATINEES WEDNESDAY aNp SATURDAY,

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