... unscrupu lous. He subdues his brother scoundrel, the valet Domin ique, with a pistol what a lot of pistols we are using in the theatre up to date but he cannot subdue the noble father. Mr. Edward O'Neill is the flippant and able cracksman valet. Mr. Staveley ...

... hope of making people laugh should be deplorably dismal? Is there not gloom enough already in our lives without going to the theatre to seek more of it under the pretence of amusement? Amusement, forsooth! From Rupert of Hentzau to Don Juan's Last Wager, ...

... on plays and play productions, have been saying concerning Mr. F. R. Benson's latest Shakespearian revival at the Lyceum Theatre that The Tempest, which was put in the programme on the 5th inst., was merely a poet's indulgence in a very beautiful dream ...

... must be well done to command favour on this side of the Channel. A Clown's Christmas, brought out at a matinée at the Lyric Theatre on the 11th inst., was exceedingly well done, and secured the enthusiastic approval of a large and deeply- interested audience ...

... three-act farce, The Passport at Terry's Theatre, serves to exhibit the comic powers of Mr. Edward Terry and his excellent company to the best advan tage. The Passport, originally brought out at the same theatre about five years ago, is a very amusing ...

... Htu theatres BY W. MOY THOMAS THE SIGNORA D USE'S PERFORMANCES THE prolonged absence of the Signora Duse from the London stage has evidently not weakened the hold of the great Italian actress upon the affections of English playgoers. Her Magda in Sudermann's ...

... neither the triple bill nor the method of its interpretation was worthy of a continuous clamour of approbation which kept the theatre quivering. I have myself never written of actors and actresses as criminals when they have failed altogether to please me ...

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... extensive and expensive ventures ever witnessed in a suburban theatre is that to be seen this week at Mr. Robert Arthur's lovely theatre at Kennington. In other words, Mr. Wilson Barrett is at that theatre giving the first performances in London of his adaptation ...

... enough with us to be worth noting before they go. The mischief comes, I fear, largely from the actor-manager system. Too many theatres nowadays get into the hands of gentlemen and ladies who consider that the public thinks as highly of them as they, on their ...

... contradiction that The Liars of the former is more acceptable to the admirers of Mr. Charles Wyndham and the patrons of Wyndham's Theatre than the Cyrano de Bergerac of the famous French author. The. Liars, in which-- apart from farcical comedy-- the popular ...

... to that it had been given in December, 1879, at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York, immediately after the copyright performance had taken place on the far-off stage of the Bijon Theatre, at Paignton. This latter representation was of the scratch order ...