SOUVENIR-HUNTERS OF THE PAST.
Scene.—RUNNYMEDE, 1215.
"Man Wanted to lift 1,200 square yards of Turf at once—Provincial Paper.
Before applying for the job our young friend Foozle would like to know whether he will be required to replace the divot.
AT THE PLAY.
"Just Like Judy."
If the author of Just Like Judy will look into that commodious classic, Mrs. Beeton's Cookery Book, he will find a formula for light pastry. And if he will proceed to the (for him) enlivening adventure of essaying a tartlet, he will find that most fatal among a host of fatal errors will be any failure to preserve the due proportion of ingredients. I do not suggest that there is as rigid a formula for light comedy. But certainly Mr. Denny threw in too many unnecessary mystifications and crude explanations in proportion to the wit, wisdom and lively incident of his confection. In particular he was constantly making some of his characters tell the others what we of the audience either already knew or quite easily guessed. To exhaust my tedious-homely metaphor, if you put in a double measure of water the mixture will refuse to rise. And that I imagine is essentially what happened to Just Like Judy.