... ventures, shrank from telling us how this one turned out. 'T'HE acting of the present revival seems to me to be very much superior to that which the piece originally enjoyed. I think the second act is now quite SKETCHED AT THE REPERTORY THEATRE BY H. M. BATEMAN ...

... superior to the old stage-coach. We need the cut-away coat and the smalls to keep before our minds all the time the fact that people did once live who wrote to the Times to ridicule the suggestion that this new-fangled steam concern could ever expect to carry ...

... a good thing. It has the other drawback for which I see no reason of inordinately long waits between the acts, unduly spinning out a representation of which the first desideratum is that it should get along quickly. I am sorry to have to point out mistakes ...

... again, the young man is lying on a couch in his room getting his breath back after the excitement. Apparently the act of killing people with axes, even when it is done with the most benevolent intention, is a nerve-racking job, and Raskolnikoff finds ...

... a Comic Play, so you can't plead that you didn't know. I think, however, the most remarkable feature about it is the representation of the name-part by Mr. Arthur Playfair, who gives us a picture of a reformed sinner that is drawn with a startling ...

... think, as fond as most people of children, but I like them best in their proper place. That place does not seem to me to be the stage, except for the purposes, perhaps, of a half-hour's incidental entertainment. A play of three acts., with dialogue, songs ...

... - when he is weak-- that by degrees we shall lose him in the crowd. The representation at the Gar rick was admittedly very much on the comic side it was in this sense over-acted generally, and frequently almost violently so. It took place amid scenes ...

... also upon Mr. Hawtrey himself because he has seen fit to venture out. of his usual line. The actor does, it is true, tell and act a he which affords the plot its raison d'etre-, and it is, of course, when he is lying that the playgoing public loves him best ...

... exactly at the wrong moment-- the difficulties of excitable little people's spasmodic bobbings up and down. I am afraid that I lost much that was good, but what I did see in the two representations of the Russian company delighted me. It is not alone the three ...

... contrive to maintain a position m the fashionable world. There is an old antagonism between the families of the two young people, and there fore their presence in the same house is kept a secret by the Molyneux couple from their patrons. At the same time ...

... over the denouement in a not very satisfactory manner to a fourth act, which goes for little. Why do people insist upon producing four-act pieces when in seven cases out of ten the last act, the one which is freshest on the summing up, is mere filling out ...

... they have given us, and there is more of interest in the representation than of emotion in their history of three families which extends over fifty years, and in which the lovers of the first act are grandfathers and grandmothers in the third. But as a ...