The advantages, os well as the disadvantages though in a minor degree, of repertoire company which is capable of playing any one of thirty or thirty-two plays at s moment's notice were thrown into strong relief by the performance on Saturday night of "The Silver King." The disadvantages are an occasional Ispee of memory and, in a travelling company, the carelessness of staging of which we had reason to complain in connexion with "John Glayde's Honour." For instance the econo in the but at which "The 69
Silver King" learns that he is innocent of the murder of Geoffrey Ware was spoilt by the unnecessary smallness of the building, and what the rep scene of Rome (or was it Constantinople 2) has to do with a play the setion of which never goes outside England we are at a loss to understand.
On the other hand the advantages of playing many parts are a freshness and vitality throughout the whole caste which, certainly on Saturday night, conduced to excellence in every charac.
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