Rosedale

“The performance will commence at ten minutes before 8 precisely. Seats are secured until the end of the first act, which terminates at five minutes past 8. It is hoped that this notice will prevent disappointment and loss of seats.”

“As for instance, a young damsel was overheard the other evening to express with some dismay her belief that Mr. Wallack was not going to sing ‘Luddy Fuddy,’ because Miss Eytinge permitted him to depart in the fourth act without teaching him that song as well as the ditty about ‘Lord Bateman.’ The ladies, of course, are by far the most earnest of the buzzing heralds, and they tell what they know with such an air of apprehensive seriousness, and they are so immeasurably delighted when things happen just as they predict, that you couldn’t find it in your heart to blame them.”