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"peek-a-boo" Scanlan

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Day
17
Month
May
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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That favorite, Scanlan, will be here next week, Thursday evening, again to delight an Ann Arbor audience. Of "Peek-aBoo," it is said that "it is a comïdy on the lpgitimate lines, with all ihe wholesomeneí8 that gaod, kind, rollicking character sketches and national traits can afford. Theie is not a human being alive, who would not enjoy such a comedy from beginning to end." The Cincinnati Cominercial-Gazette says of Mr. Scanlan and his new play : "An Iriehman will enjoy it intensely, for he sees reproduced some of the strongest and best characteristics of his race- no exageeration or ridicule of national character, but those evidences ol momer-wn, auu those principies oL manhood which he dearly cherishes. But others not of the Irish natioaality may enjoy the comedy equally as well. There is nothing coarse or vulger about it, and yet it would be difficult to ind in it a single tiresome moment. There is something immensely appropriate and natural in everything that Mr. Scanlan utters in his role of Larry O'Lynn. "There is the richness of good oíd Irisa broth in everything he says or does, and at the close of the play one involuntary desires that so natural a character sketch should go on forever. His songs are among the loadstones in the entire performance. 'Peek-a-boo' has gone the rounds of the theatrical world : it has been sung by thousands of stranijers, and yet never comes so near home - it never appeals so strongly to parental affections, and to home associations as when sung by Mr. Scanlan."

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Ann Arbor Register