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DRAMA OF THE WEEK: THE SECOND IN COMMAND

... DRAMA OR THE WEEK. THE SECOND IN COMMAND. FORTUNE smiles and it frowns; but just now it keeps smiles only for the Haymarket Theatre and Messrs. Harrison and Maude, the popular managers. Their latest venture, the production, on the 27th ult., of Captain Robert ...

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: THE EMPIRE

... pass their even ings in London at present, they are no worse off at a variety show than they would be at a theatre, or at most of the theatres. There is scarcely a playhouse in the West-end at which the audience is not asked to believe that the only good ...

DRAMA OF THE WEEK: THE HAPPY HYPOCRITE

... though perhaps not much of surprise, over the production of Max Beerbohm's little play, The Happy Hypocrite, at the Royalty Theatre on the 11th inst. One of the critical fraternity discovered, or professed to have discovered, that it was fresh, fantastic ...

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: THE SECOND IN COMMAND

... circle above, where every woman's head is considerately uncovered but this is nothing new it has long been obvious that at the theatre we must get away from first-class company in order to find first-class manners. What a pity that one should have to complain ...

DRAMA OF THE WEEK: THE RING MISTRESS

... DRAMA OF THE WEEK. THE RING MISTRESS. AFTER a trial performance at the Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne, Mr. Robert Ganthony's new three-act farcical comedy, The Ring Mistress, was brought to London on the 20th inst. for the commencement of a series ...

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: THE LONDON HIPPODROME

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE LONDON HIPPODROME. COMPARED with past combinations of the circus and the theatre the Hippodrome is quite a revelation. Even Astley's --most famous of its predecessors-- seemed unable ever thoroughly to master the difficulties ...

DRAMA OF THE WEEK

... DRAMA OF THE WEEK. TERRY'S THEATRE was reopened on Tuesday evening under the management of Mr. E. H. Bull. The fortunes of the house have not been too brilliant of late, and we fear that success is not likely to be restored by the new and original musical ...

DRAMA OF THE YEAR

... 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 establishment which is always spoken of as our National Theatre was recently ...

DRAMA OF THE WEEK: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW

... been glad of a re- introduction at the Comedy Theatre to Christopher Sly. Mr. Benson's Petruchio was first seen by metropolitan play goers when some few years ago he revived the comedy at the Globe Theatre. The actor seems to revel in the fun of the part ...

DRAMA OF THE WEEK: SWEET NELL OF OLD DRURY

... fortune has been made by good acting. The new Gaiety Theatre will not be far from the old. It will stand at the Waterloo corner of Wellington-street, therefore in close proximity to the Lyceum Theatre and the new street from the Stran 1 to Holborn. The ...

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: THE GARRICK THEATRE

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE GAIi RICK THEATRE. I DO not care what else there is to see at the Garrick Theatre if The Man who Stole the Castle has a place in the bill. Nothing as graceful of its kind as this has been produced since Little Lord Fauntleroy ...