Joseph Murphy

It seerns ahno.t s'ipprfluous to roabe any ment ion of the Irinh come. lian, Juaepb Murphy, for lie has been on tlie road so inany years and has visited us so regularly lliat we havn learned tv know him thoroiighly. He bejjan a week's eiifjazenifnt at the Grand las! evenini; in 'Tlie Kerry Gw." ïliere was a lare udience and the gallery was a recular hanjjing garden of boys on boys. Joaeph Murpliy nas r.ot deteriorated since he was last here. As "Tlie Kerry Gow" h shows us the same big, good looking, wilty Irishman , as of yore. He has the same ariful smoothness of longue, the same charining infectious smile, the old fxcility at repariee- and theold bubblinglrish wit everywhereand at all times. Tlie brogne is not too lich, yet rich enougb, and is, indeed, quite perfect. Marsden has made for us in the playanoble.straightforward Irish character. Not the gteat hero, but the honest, lovable lad. The great charm of Murphy is tbat perfect brogue. It is so facile, and it imparts sucii a delicate richness to the spontaneous and ahnost unconscious witticism that the most polemn man in the world delighte to hear it. Murphy always has a good company, ufflcient for the day and the work thereof. Miss Belle Melville, In the role of Nora Drew, the sweetheart. nf Dnn O"Hra. is a fine ehararter in hpr fiilelity to Dan an.i to her fiither. She is asv, brtght, alert, and (jooil-lf'Okinff. Ihe proper picture of the noble-hearted Irish girl, and dnea hpr part with pennine excellence. The ollier members of the romiwny are (rond and the play moves alonr with