The Archive · 1901

"TRE TOREADOR,"

the newest Gaiety piece, very adequately succeeds to the long string of girls and the one little boy; it has simply rushed into fame carrying everything before it and, with the exception of the two houses where French plays are running, and the Prince of Wales's where "The Man from Blank-ley's" is still doing tremendous business, can buast of being about the only house where money is turned away every night.

There are two Toreadors, @ real one and a make-believe one, the latter in the hands of Mr. Edmund Payne being infinitely the more amusing of the two—in fact anything more droll than this funny little man who accidentally and without the least effort on hi, parts thrust into the proud position of Toreadwr and laider of a Carlist rising it wou'd ba dificult to imagine, All other m imbers of the com pany are excellent in their various puts and the piece should run for two years at least. Mr. Geor.e Elwardes should he a proud man, as in one week hw scored a iyantic Gaiety success and won the Ascot jold Cup. This latter wit Santoi.

IK

28th June,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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