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DRAMA OF THE WEEK

... irresistible demand for its repetition. A Clown's Christmas when next presented should not be missed. Tess, adapted from Thomas Hardy's famous work, by Mr. H. A. Kennedy, and originally brought out in February at the Coronet Theatre by Mrs. Lewis Waller ...

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: WINNIE BROOKE, WIDOW,. AT THE CRITERION THEATRE

... the youngsters will no doubt be seen in classic events, and it will be interesting to note the further progress of Mr. H. Hardy's crop of this season's puppies. In Hop- rend (Forgotten Fashion Heii'loom), and Haste (Young Fiery Dashing Diana), he certainly ...

ROUND THE THEATRES

... think very much of his Beside the Bonnic Brier Bush as arranged for the stage with artless confidence by Messrs. Augustus Thomas and James MacArthur. Types of Scottish character which serve their purpose sufficiently well in sketchy little stories like ...

ROUND THE THEATRES

... of simple sentiment and quiet humour. The position of its heroine as the feminine equivalent of a yeoman recalls that of Thomas Hardy's Bathsheba Everdene or of Pinero's Squire. The Widow Fiander needs a man to look after her interests, her possessions ...

ROUND THE THEATRES

... Portsmouth and Southsea, Seaton, Sidmnuth, Southamp ton, Swanage. Wadebridge, Westward Ho We-mouth, and Woolacombe. Mr. Thomas Hardy, the yell -known novelist, has revised what appears in reference to the ancient town of Dorchester, where he resides, and ...

ROUND THE THEATRES

... descends on Act I., that the three couples have been paired off as both their hearts and fortunes would dictate. It had become a hardy annual custom with Bald-faced Sandy, a South Californian sheriff and hotel proprietor, to hold a marriage auction outside his ...

THE NEW DUKE, AT THE COMEDY THEATRE

... Violet Gould, Miss Grace La Rue, and Miss Gertrude Robins, by Bassano, Ltd., 25 Old Bond-st., W. Miss Esmc Beringer, by R. W. Thomas; Mme. Karsavina, by Dover Street Studios, 38 Dover-st., W. A Covey of Partridges among the Oats, by C. Reid, Wishaw A Visit ...

THE LIBRARY: SOME PLEASANT SPORTING G..

... many Pleasant Places where Mr. Gathorne- Hardy has enjoyed his sport, since those quite early days in the 'sixties, when he was first entered to gun and rod. He shows us old-fashioned sportsmen such as Sir Thomas Gladstone, of Fasque, and a former Lord ...

ROUND THE THEATRES

... sometimes appear in weekly papers-- sketches of West Country life painted according to the school of John .Masefield and Thomas Hardy. Hut though sketches, they were very rich in their humour, and rich in that strange, indefinable beauty which the true ...

ROUND THE THEATRES

... d by the end of the page, that one, at any rate, of our literary men had shown what a war play should be. That was Mr. Thomas Hardy; and, of course, he wasn't think ing of this war when he wrote it. Another of our literary men, Mr. Stephen Phillips, has ...