... about the financial results of the plucky experiment which Mr. Brickwell is making at the Garriek, since the Garrick is not Drury Lane, and since Puss in Pools is too like a panto mime really, to do duty for every other class of entertain ment which seems ...

... ^ttr^CAPTIOUS CRITIC. irg aND THE BEANSTALK AT DRURY JACK A laNe theatre DRURY LANE is justifying its traditions-- drawing full houses in these not very flourishing times for theatres, and making its audiences laugh, not excepting the strong con tingents ...

... the veteran Corporal Brewster supplied by Sir Henry Irving, whose reception in the part at the recent Canadian matinie at Drury Lane seems to have convinced him that there was an eager public awaiting a repetition at the Lyceum. None should miss the opportunity ...

... based upon portraits, Sweet Xell of Old Drury might just as well have Jbeen called by ,ome other name. The story opens in Drury Lane, where Mistress -Gwynne sells oranges Jaffa oranges, which have been imported somewhat prematurely, unless, indeed, they ...

... interest they thought necessary in addition, the sensation was, after all, merely a detail in a genuine literary combination. Drury Lane was the first to tall away from the better path and to subordinate the play to the spectacle. The Price of Peace still further ...

... dollshousey, apart from being somewhat monotonous. Indeed, I do not envy good Society at home if it dresses so much like Drury Lane pageants as smart Society does on the stage. There is not a great deal to say about the acting, which, except in the part ...

... to recall memories of the work of Samuel Phelps or John Coleman or George Rignold, who played the hero of Agin- court at Drury Lane but it may be said without hesitation that the present revival, in the completeness of its staging, in the picturesqueness ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. SLEEPING BEAUTY AND THE BEAST' I TRIED to see the Drury Lane pantomime on an after noon-- and was only partially successful. The ladies' hats were again too much for me as regards the view to the front. It was impossible to get an ...

... Whether we see Nell in her humble position as orange-seller, bright, merry, bustling among the crowd that makes its way to Drury Lane, and holding her own in a witty encounter with tho King or later on, playing the fine lady, assisting to foil tho vindictive ...

... have it that as Volumnia the great Mrs. Siddons achieved one of her most notable successes. Edmund Kean revived the play at Drury Lane in 1820, but did not gain much glory as the hero. Hazlitt, who was one of his most ardent admirers, wrote it down that Kean ...

... who con ducted, was accorded an enthusiastic reception. The benefit, it is hoped, will realise between £G00 and £700. A DRURY LANE SENSATION. Not the motor car race, nor the motor-car leap over the cliffs in The Great Millionaire, nor the bread-riot in ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. BEN-HUR AT DRURY LANE THEATRE. VERY properly, of course, General Lew Wallace would not allow those portions of his story to be dramatised at which religious feeling might justly be aggrieved. But without the Nazarene-- as the characters ...