Brooklyn Daily Eagle
New York, USA
8 January 1889
STANDARD MUSEUM
A play of melancholy significance called "Jack the Ripper" was "
tried on" by Marlande Clark and eighteen to twenty associate actors
last evening. It relates to the Whitechapel murders and pictures
the Ripper as a man who is under oath to rid the community of
fallen women. The one who is killed in the second act appears to
deserve her fate, because she sings a solo half an hour before the
assassin gets hold of her. After devious meanderings the plot leads
up to the hanging of the Ripper and everybody is contented. the
play needs revision, badly. It is intolerably wordy, the street
scene in Whitechapel is wholly needless and the comedy is weak.
Several variety features and two or three excursions of the
Salvation Army are supposed to give pleasure to the multitude, and
there is a vicious scrapping match between Charles Bogert and
William Nash. The piece is fairly acted and well set.
