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DRAMA OF THE WEEK: THE HAPPY HYPOCRITE

... of this trifle was splendidly sus tained by Mr. Charles Hawtrey, who for about lialf-au-hour, without any assistance worth speaking of, kept the house thoroughly interested and amused. That he was heartily applauded goes without saying. CHURCH AND STAGE ...

A LITERARY LETTER

... breathing world. No sadness without a known cause, no joy whose source was uncomprehended, influenced him. Nature did not speak to him of dreadful and obscure powers, or of beauty and love and eternal youth beyond mortal reach, but not beyond immortal ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2435 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: THE EMPIRE

... example, scarcely any acting at all in the ballet entitled Sea-Side, the piece of the evening, at the Empire, and no plot to speak of-- and yet it is as popular a production as almost the best of its predecessors. I do not think that, on its dramatic merits ...

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: THE SECOND IN COMMAND

... is really very nice in the r6le. I think that she is not treated at all well by Lady Harburgh, who is certainly too plain speaking in her decision to get rid of her, or by the Major, who accepts her unwilling promise, and lies to her to bring about its ...

DRAMA OF THE YEAR

... There are losses as well as gains in every business, and in the business of theatre-running it would be quite as easy to speak of fortunes as of failures. The clover and humorous gentle man who may he regarded as tho chief play-provider tor tho big ...

A LITERARY LETTER

... interested in the Napoleon cult should not fail to read. Judge Morris knows his subject thoroughly he should not, however, speak of O'Meara as Omcara, as he does three separate times in the Fortnightly. This, how ever, is obviously a printer's error or ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1901
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2370 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

THE LIBRARY: OUR BIRD FRIENDS'

... the patience, perseverance, and enthusiasm of these two talented brothers appear to be inexhaust ible. It is impossible to speak in terms too strong of the book under notice it is in every respect a delightful production. (j Me. Dooley's Philosophy. ...

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE

... of Moses in the ancient Scripture histories. Salanio and Salarino are played by Mr. Whitby and Mr. Harcourt- Williams who speaks well and the Gobbos, father and son, by Messrs. Clarence and G. R- Weir-- who has the traditional reading of the character ...

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: A CIGARETTE MAKER'S ROMANCE

... bald plot possible for the library, has come from the adapter a good deal weakened. At all events, that is what I think, speaking only for one. Others are not of the same opinion, or Mr. Harvey would not be playing, as he is, to such good houses as foregather ...

A LITERARY LETTER

... St. Clair Erskine I read more than one pretty story from her pen. TYr. Dunbar Ingram, brother of the author of Who Dares to Speak of '98 has just published a work entitled A Critical Examination of Irish His tory; being a Replacement of the False by the ...

Published: Saturday 02 March 1901
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2259 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER

... feelings which I do not feel, apprehensions which I do not apprehend, and motives by which I am not moved, I hold it (so to speak) to be all blarney, and therefore I shall certainly not indulge Mr. Mundell by the insertion of any of these commonplace apologies ...

Published: Saturday 16 March 1901
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2900 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review