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Our Captious Critic

... strange and unnatural. I console myself, however, in the reflection that if I have not reformed the modern theatre it is because the modern theatre will not be reformed at any price or else assuredly my article had worked that reformation ...

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC

... busi- uess I have in hand, which is merely to make passing allusion to a few well-known actors as they appear outside the theatre. In e summer months, when everyone who can get away manages o emigrate somewhere into the country, your London actor in u ...

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: MLLE. SARAH BERNHARDT

... BERNHARDT. By One who has Neveb Seen Hee. Compiled from Contemporary Criticisms, c. LIKE Mr. Hollingshead, of the Gaiety Theatre, himself, I chose other fields of dramatic exercise than the Comédie Francaise in the Strand, as a matter of study, on Whit-Mon- ...

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC

... and conditions of their theatre. The 204^ strikes the reader at once as a voucher of uncommon veracity. Perhaps the gentle men reside past 204, and swarm up the spout that intersects the bricks of number 205 perhaps the theatre is the largest in the world ...

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC

... clear the Bancroft bird rose out of the fog, and the new style of theatre was received with satis faction. Mr. Wills, also, having played his little practical joko at the Duke's Theatre, takes the opportunity of proving that he is still a poetical dramatist ...

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC

... called upon to come and dress the house. There is a large portion of the population which is constantly going from theatre to theatre without paying one single stiver for the seats it occupies, and yet the persons form ing this portion are most fastidious ...

CIRCULAR NOTES

... house is filled nightly, and I am told that people go to see this actress who would consider it wrong to go to any other theatre. Tho tide of fortune has sot towards the Lyceum of late years, and nothing seems to stop it. I am very glad to hear of any ...

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: THE PICKPOCKET

... German by Mr. George P. Hawtrey, and now being performed, with a success at which I own I was somewhat surprised, at the Globe Theatre. Writedown to your public and play down to your pit, is an axiom I once heard propounded by a man of no slight experience ...

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: MODERN WIVES AT THE ROYALTY

... There fore, to the possessors of such divergent tastes, and to them alone, I would earnestly recommend a visit to the Royalty Theatre, for the purpose of witnessing Modern 1 Vive*, a three act piece adapted by Mr. Ernest Warren from Le Bonhcur Conjugal of ...

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: THE END OF A STORY

... Wynd ham's recent productions have been too similar. It would not be so bad were he the only actor-manager. In a single theatre among many the public might care to find the gentleman who keeps the show continuously adored by all the female characters ...