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STORIES FROM NEW BOOKS: A Story of Skulls

... his new book on Samuel Foote (Chatto and Windus), Mr. Percy Fitzgerald recalls a strange riot which took place at Foote's Theatre. A conjurer had undertaken to enter from the stage into a quart bottle without equivocation, and there sing a song. However ...

Published: Saturday 26 February 1910
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1230 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

THE FASCINATION OF CHAINS: SOME IRISH PLAYS

... experiment is due in the shppe of a visit of the famous company from the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. The Irish are the only people in the United Kingdom who have an j real sense of the theatre, in the same sense as the French or the Latin races possess. Look into ...

Published: Saturday 28 May 1910
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1890 | Page: 16 | Tags: Review 

THE FIRST CHAPTER OF THE REPERTORY THEATRE

... is telling against the commercial theatre. The plays put on at the Repertory Theatre are admittedly only experiments, and they rouse the antagonism of many people of perception who have no love for the commercial theatre. If you doubt that, read the slashing ...

Published: Saturday 18 June 1910
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1430 | Page: 12 | Tags: Review 

THE PLAYS OF THE DAY

... popular wife, philandering for a wager with the artist (Mr. Carlton Brough), at the Globe Theatre. Poulsham and llau field A SCENE FROM THE LOVE MILLS AT THE GLOBE THEATRE V? fWjtsXZfr-* Y 'i-gn-WSHT I ISf.-:- II WlliMM.-Pt.. -fb'vTW.. Foulsham and Han field ...

Published: Saturday 28 October 1911
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 567 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

Some Good Stories from New Books: War and Peace

... defective education. He was interested extensively in theatrical enterprises, and it was while he was manager of Booth's Theatre that the following incident occurred A Passion Play wa? heing rehearsed, and he sailed down the parquette (the equivalent ...

Published: Saturday 05 December 1914
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1941 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

PLAYS OF THE DAY

... in Japanese dance at the Coliseum. VT rather and Buys JANE DELMAR at the Criterion. Dover Street QUEENIE THOMAS at the New Theatre. W rather and Buys MR. GERALD DU MAURIER as Raffles at Wyndhnra's. Poulih&tn and Hantleld ...

Published: Saturday 30 January 1915
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 365 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

AT THE MUSIC-HALL

... AT THE MUSIC-HALL The Palace Theatre is likely to make as great a hit with The Passing Show of 191 5 as it did with its immediate prede cessor, for it contains all the elements of popular suc cess. There are, of course, moments that are a little dull ...

Published: Saturday 20 March 1915
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 151 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

AT THE THEATRE

... AT THE THEATRE I have little hesitation in saying that the production of Madame Butterfly at the Shaftesbury is the best performance of grand opera that I have ever seen in English, and is quite as good as many I have seen in Italian at Covent Garden ...

Published: Saturday 20 March 1915
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 277 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

STORIES FROM BOOKS OF THE DAY

... capitulate. At five-and-twenty she found him in the poet. The Question and the Answer. Juliette's love-story began at the theatre. She was cast as La Princesse Negroni in Hugo's Lucrece Borgia at the Porte St. Martin in 1833. In the third act, when Maffio ...

Published: Saturday 12 June 1915
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1389 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

BOOKS BEARING ON THE GREAT WAR

... will listen to no one in Europe. She will be influenced by nothing except the number of soldiers whom Europe can send to the theatre of war, and Europe has none to send. We must have guarantees for the future, said Bismarck, and in exacting his pound of ...

Published: Saturday 19 June 1915
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 947 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

A LOOK ROUND THE THEATRES

... A LOOK ROUND THE THEATRES The versatility of Mr. Nelson Keys, the quiet humour of Miss Wish Wynne, and the effective bombast of Mr. Arthur Playfair are all of special ser vice in the new skit on the Tree production of Henry VIII in The Passing Shows ...

Published: Saturday 14 August 1915
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1186 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

SOME GOOD STORIES FROM NEW BOOKS

... astonished with all his urbanity, when he hears this kind of echo in the Flysian fields. THE ADVANCE ON BAGHDAD THE MESOPOTAMIAN THEATRE OF WAR I do not think that, in the whole course of the war, there has been a series of operations more carefully contrived ...

Published: Saturday 13 November 1915
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1712 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review