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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 142, 5 March 1918, Page 5

After the Christmas season •-. Mr. Cochran was to have made a curious experiment at the Ambassadors'; Theatre/ Ho intends to revive the tld transpontine melodramas, "Sweeney Todd, the Barber of Fleet Street," and "Maria Martin, or Tho Murder in the Red Barn." Both these pieces enjoyed an enormous popularity iiv their day, especially with pit and gallery. What appeal they will niako to a modern audience in sC West End theatre is a question. It will not be easy to find actors to play them in the right spirit of deadly earnest. The first programme for the season of the London Pioneers included (1) a Japanese, play for - marionettes, called '•Kawana, - ' by- jthe yonng Japanese poet Khori; (2) a one-act drnma, bv W. F. Casey, entitled "Insurrection," tlealiii" with an incident in the Sinn Fein rising of April, 1910; (3) "The Inca of Peru," by an author who describes the piece 1 as "an almost historic comedietta, by a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature." For a later date is promised "The TJndivinc Comedy," by the Polish writer Krasinski. Hall Caine has written a new play ivhich will be produced soon by Ethel Irving. . . ". •