... sometimes at a great opera, which he called Don Juan Triumphant but he chiefly occupied himself in playing monkey tricks with the theatre, staff, from the directors to the box-keeper. There is plenty of grim humour about the ghost and M. Leroux, and one gets an ...

... has made a spirited little farce of it all, in spite of some burlesque moments which might recommend it to Mr. Pelissier's theatre. Far be it from the pen of an entertained reviewer to drag its frail ingenuity beneath the wheels of credibility or good taste ...

... THINGS NEW: AT THE THEATRES. A QUAINT week at the theatres, with booing and other ugly sounds at two first nights; and it may very well be that those who behaved unpleasantly at The 'Mind-the-Paint' Girl were the very people who applauded Dear Old ...

... THINGS NEW: AT THE THEATRES. THE Stage Society's latest enterprise consisted of excellent translations of two long one-act plays. The first, a very clever affair by Hermann Bahr, called The Fool and the Wise Man, is perhaps too subtle in idea and too ...

... Coronet Theatre, with many changes of programme, and those who desire to compare revolutionary methods of production with those sanctioned by custom have a favourable opportunity for so doing by paying visits to The Winter's Tale and to the theatre at Notting ...

... THINGS NEW: AT THE THEATRES. PLAYS concerning the bliss of parenthood are rushing in. Mr. Inglis Allen gave us one at the Little Theatre, called If We had Only Known, a title that somehow suggests the books of Mr. William de Morgan. Mr. Allen is of ...

... as she died at his birth, father and son lived as strangers for want of a fusing medium. Oxford scarcely seems a promising theatre for such a search, and yet young Cheadle, by learning life there, does actually learn the road to his father's heart. For ...

... chance phrase which Canon Sheehan applies to another use expresses the final impression of his novel very well. It is like a theatre seen by daylight. The stage is there with its atmosphere of drama, its echo of a mystery, a curse, a nobly morbid heroine ...

... THINGS NEW: AT THE THEATRES. MISS GLADYS UNGER, after the enthusiastic reception of her comedy, The Son and Heir, may have been sur prised by the chilling criticisms appearing in some papers of importance. There is no doubt that the hearty applause ...

... give the scene its full effect he needed very sweet music and indeterminate illu mination. We asked the electrician of the theatre to put green lamps along the footlights, and the orchestra-leader to play a subdued air. The great question next was to decide ...

... THINGS NEW: AT THE THEATRES. PERHAPS Bought and Paid For is not quite as lurid as the title, though at one moment it threatened to be; but our melodramatists show a tendency to be a bit too genteel, and when they arrive at the big sensational scenes ...

... THINGS NEW: AT THE THEATRES. MR. ARTHUR BOURCHIER is a very interesting Irish priest in The Greatest Wish, at the Garrick; but one Irish priest does not make a very satisfying drama. The author, Mr. E. Temple Thurston, has endeavoured to translate a ...