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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 403, 14 January 1890, Page 3

Our Melbourne correspondent writes :— The curtain has fallen upon Mr George C. Miln’a season at the Qpera Hoose, and, though let us hope only trmP° rar ily, upon his tot, tunes. He baa 1* filed his schedule," as many a good deaerving man has been compelled to do before him. He has striven hard to place good, healthy, instructive plays before the Melbourne public, but Melbourne apparently does not want good, healthy, instructive plays. Melbourne—or that portion of play-going Melbourne that pay—wants something else, no matter how trashy, so long as it raises 11 the loud laugh that betrays a vacant mind "—to amuse It, a monkey with three legs, an idiot more silly than idiots usually are, a boy with a pig’s face, er a " screaming farce " in which there is neither wit upon the stage nor in the auditorium, will make a man’s fortune, whilst Shakespeare conducts to the insolvent court. Holloway did well well with Shakespeare ; bat, then, everybody went mad about the pretty face of Essie Jenyns, fata slep’ daughter, But if the curtain has dropped over Mr Milo’s ill-starred adventure, it baa been raised upon Mr John F, Sheridan's impersonation of ** The Widow O'Brien "—a piece that is more on a level with the average play-goer'e intellect than tbe highest efforts of Shakespeare's genius. If further proof of thia were wanted, it is furnished by ths fact that' whilst poor Mild has gone bankrupt over Shakespeare, the Macmabons are in a fair way of greatly increasing their bank balance over that common-place thing, " Fun on the Bristol." Fun there is in plenty for those whose risible faculties are easily aroused, but it would puzsle tbe old gentleman himself to discover wherein the wit lies,