lit Mr. Hall Came's dramatic customed at this historic house.
Awong others things a flock of between fifty and sixty "real" sheep are seen on the Mr. Hall Came is perhaps as ox-ab man as Mr. Arthur Collins, the Drury Lane manager, and the production has been most indus-triensly and successfully boomed in gdvance. Moreover the notices which appear in this morning's papers are unusually elaborate and lengthy, the excellent French institution of a " Répétition, Generale" having been introduced at Drury Lane, 80 that the critics were enabled to see the play and form their opinions upon it three days before their notices had to appear. Even Mr. Walkley, the famous dramatic critic of the "Times," though scarcely disguises feeling something akin to, contempt for this species of play, acknowledges that "the Prodigal Son" exactly hits the public taste, and will assuredly fill the great house nightly until has to be withdrawn for the pantomime preparations. In addition to the fifty sheep and a considerable, number of four-footed mimes ithas a very strong cast of bipeds. Mr. George Alexander has left his own theatre for a time to play the leading part; that old popular favourite, Mr. Henry Neville, appears as the prodigal's father; Mr. Frank Cooper rivals Mr. Alexander in popular acclaim as the prodigal's heroic: brother; Mrs. John Wood has a capital comedy part; Miss Lily Hall Came wins many tears as the heroine; and Miss Mary Rorke and Miss Nancy Price have also telling parts.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.