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Miss Molly Turberville Lady Pamela Mallison.. Miss Princep. Ottiline Mollison (her niece)... Miss Qasement. Emily Cardew is W. Corwinne. Mrs. Vokins Miss Dora Munday, Mrs. Brabazon Tudway (her daughter Mine. Reitrop.
After the very the A. D.C. in "Li greet success attained by erty Hall," it might seem. at to say that that ce formance into the shade by last night's rendering of Carton's much more modern comedy "Lord and Lady Algy;" but if would be unfair not to state what is undoubtedly the fact. The play itself is a picture almost. as pitiless as a photograph of life in the "smart set" of London of these days. There is nothing original in the characters or the situations; but. the story is so simple and the incidents follow each other so naturally, the dialogue is so brilliant and the situations so well led up to, that the spectator follows the drama in its course with the closest attention, and his only adverse criticism is that the villain escapes without any punishment; but this shows what a faithful picture of real life it is. There are reminiscences of "The Liars" in it, and there is a very considerable draft upon the "School for Scandal but Mr. Carton has so thoroughly stamped' his borrowings with his own coinage, that no Court of Letters would entertain the charge of plagiarism. A play 40 attractive in itself and so. excellently acted and admirably mounted is very rarely seen on the amateur stage.
The character of Lord Algy, the direct descendant of Charles Surface, the reckless scapegrace who has been thrown over by father the Duke of Droneborough, and separated from his wife because they fancy themselves too poor to live together, never back the same horses, uor smoke the same cigarettes, but who remains throughout a gentleman and is thoroughly sound at tom, is by no means an easy one to impersonate, but it was played last night most easily, gracefully, and aarely by Mr. H. Thornton, who carried off the
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