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... OFR CAPTIOUS CRlfjcH JUST MARRIED, AT THE COMEDY THEATRE. THE description in the programme, A farcical comedy, is an affectation which brings its own punishment, for the word farce alone is far more attractive to the public. Good farces are rare ...
... acuteness on his part than I on mine. But there is the fact. We have frequently met at social gatherings, at the first nights ot theatres, where on many occasions I have sat side by side with him. T have given up most of these frivolities in a newly born passion ...
... deserves better employment. In the precincts of Harvard a performance might have been a wholesome object-lesson. In a real theatre there is but one re sult boredom, and, at moments meant to be serious, derision. That is not the way to serve a young author ...
... patent theatres had power to stop any spoken drama elsewhere. This gave vogue, as we know, to some great mimes both in London and Paris such as Byrne, who tightened up Harlequin, and Deburau, who created our present-day Pierrot in the little Theatre des ...
... feathers of this paragon among .geese. Mr. Fred Conquest is a son of the George Conquest who reigned for years at the .Surrey Theatre. There remains that curiosity, Mr. Wee Georgie Wood, whose cleverness everyone must admit, and of whom you can only say that ...
... alive and vivid, and to borrow a recent American label 44 glad. J. T. G. HI. THE PHILANDERER, AT HAMPSTEAD. T^HE bijou theatre at Hampstead is a home of Shaw. Whenever there is a gap to be filled and this time it was the interval between 44 The Vortex ...
... continue to yearn, in the meantime wondering why repertory theatres do not pay. There is abso- epe ory jutely no reason inance. wjjy a repertory theatre should not pay its way. Once given the theatre, no further endowment should be required. It is all a matter ...
... CAPTIOUS CRITIC jf A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM AT DRURY LANE. THERE is a report abroad that someone is soon going to build a theatre bigger than any now in London. If it is to be for brass band performances well and good, but if for the legitimate drama ...
... cannot find a theatre within the magic circle which has Shaftesbury Avenue for its centre. It is ail to the credit of Miss Lena Ashwell and her Players that they have produced it so excellently at her bijou playhouse, the Century Theatre, for the performance ...
... ideal soil for growing trees. The flying fairies are, of course, no novelty. If my memory serves me rightly, it was at this theatre many, many moons ago that a Flying Ballet was introduced as a startling and attractive novelty by Augustus Harns in one of ...
... deficiencies in the show. There are those who say cabaret 1 is damaging to theatrical business, btit the visitor to cabaret, theatre, and music hall will soon recognise the difference in the audiences. The typical cabaret audience seems to be distinctive ...
... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITICH CAMILLA STATES HER CASE, AT THE GLOBE THEATRE. ALTHOUGH art, like humour, has so far never been satisfactorily de fined, it is certain that exaggeration is a necessary part of it. In Camilla States Her Case, the authoress known ...