That a Play should be howled down wag quite in the usual way of theatrical manners of the past. Even young dramatic critics remember the scene after Pinero's "A Wife Without a Smile." But recently at the Garrick Theatre opposition began immediately the curtain went up on the first act of Mr. J. Hartley Manners' "One Night in Rome."
Immediately one of the characters exclaimed What a charming voices in the gallery shouted "We can't see it." Even when the curtain first went up there were cries of "Raise the curtain." An so it went on. Every allusion to the room or to anything taking place in it was received with cries of "We can't see it."
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