'Phe 'Beggar's' Opera"
When we sanounced that Mr. Salisbury was bringing "The Boggar's Opera'? to i, we ventured to predict that it could not bb ' revived under better! auspices in tha Far East, 'A. grout point, about tha Fat Kastern revival is the. fact_ that the original text in Mr. Salis: biry's hands hag suffered only to the extent, of "cutting" of the more frank and shameless. parts
portunity of hotung the original of the, dialogue, and "the op: ig a pleasure which not even Lovat site settings at]
The audience at the first night 1798 could hardly have been more enthusiastic than that at the Lyooum Mieatte on Monday. We bad nearly all the jokes about "shameless sluts" and "sao judos," nearly all the songs—all o which were wildly applauded. Tt was'surely one of the most riotous ovenings in the history of the Then the. opera was frst performed it was the Polly of the 'Way that made it, Miss Dorothy James is nob exactly a perfect! acoossor to the famous Lavini Fenton, but she gave a wellthalanced "sympathetic. wading' of, the part, Miss Olive Tur-net,.. as Lucy, Lookit, "who postesses 'a beautiful, voice, and hots with great sincerity, one ventured fo think, should have stopped into the other's shoes.
elnocrity as wall as an expression of innocence, that is required to portray the only well-behaved character. But she was greatly "helped by. her highwayman" hero, magnificently Grn Sects ann" Sees and sun 24
Allan og Vilch, and "Mr. Packt were" celle cee B. Balishury as. the'Boggar and
Poachum, in the hands of Mis Mavis French, waa played apivit of real fun. The ducts and ensembles, go capitally, as for Jngtance the chorus of cut-purses the tavern hour Newgate, All the minor parts were admire ably taken, dance at the end of Act IT for sheer beauty oth of Dr. Pepusch's music and of its exquisite movements has stage.
Sarely been equalled on the local
"The settings appeared tobe lonely "sipied. from the Ham mmeramith production, but thera one. amall fle thine near poils the principal scene outside the worthy Peachum abode. The pillars of the portico. should not Fesemblo the: trellis work of suburban garden, but the classic-om. of the Augustan age in domes-tie architecture.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.