. Theatrical and circus life;. EDWIN HARKIGAN. jokes with which he tortures the intelligent portions ofhis audiences. He has been dressed and redressedand placed before the public in any number of shapesthat were intended to be novel, extending from the one 418 A TEAM OF IRISH COMEDIANS. extreme of the so-called neat Irish humorist to theother, at which stands the loud-mouthed, heel-clickingand head-breaking North of Ireland character; but thedisguise is always thin, the efforts of the performers. TONY HART. are vapid, and all the comedians succeed in lookingpretty much alike, in saying the sa
. Theatrical and circus life;. EDWIN HARKIGAN. jokes with which he tortures the intelligent portions ofhis audiences. He has been dressed and redressedand placed before the public in any number of shapesthat were intended to be novel, extending from the one 418 A TEAM OF IRISH COMEDIANS. extreme of the so-called neat Irish humorist to theother, at which stands the loud-mouthed, heel-clickingand head-breaking North of Ireland character; but thedisguise is always thin, the efforts of the performers. TONY HART. are vapid, and all the comedians succeed in lookingpretty much alike, in saying the same melancholythings, and in betraying a kinship that is unmistak-able and strongly provocative of pity. A TEAM OF IRISH COMEDIANS. 419 A few performers have been successful in makingreputations as North of Ireland characters, but theyare very few. Ferguson and Mack were for a time atthe head of this class of variety comedians, but theygot lazy, failed to exhibit anything like extensive orig-inality, and carted their old jokes and stale business to England and back, until they have fallen prettymuch to the rear ranks. Harrigan & Hart, who havea large theatre in New York, and whose play, Squat-ter Sovereignty, had a run of almost a year, are nowthe best known and really the cleverest of the membersof the profession who make a specialty of Irish Barry and Hugh Fay have made fame and moneywith their laughable Muldoons Picnic, and thereare probably a score of others whose effor
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