THEATRICAL GOSSIP.

Evening Star, Issue 3654, 7 November 1874, Page 2

THEATRICAL GOSSIP.

Madame Goddard has commenced what ividently will b a triumphant tour of this olu >y. At Ntlsoa she appears to have roused the p -oi-le of tb.it usua ly, quiet place into uowouted enthusiasm, which culminated in an audience rising 'en masse and cheering her as aha left the stage on Thursday evening, Emm Wellington our corns poudeut telegraphs : Th .b tx plan of dad'itue Godil rd’s first concert here was opened this morning, and in half an-hour every s at was t ken.”

r M. Bates, who will make his fir t appearance at ihe P.-inc-gs’a Theatre oo Wednesday next, is the author of a pbc entitled “ KHz.betb,” in ■> inch the principal incidents of thar q -.0-uj’s reign are vivicjy pourtrayed. The following is a. brief outdue of Ihe plot of the play : - In the Ibsi act, JSir Francis B.icou solicits Queen Elizabeth to witness the representation of Shakespeare's Henry thu Eighth.” She it tirst declines, bat upon hearing the flattering expressions made use of in regard to herself at the close of the play, consents to attend. Parliament having suggested to her the propriety of marrying, she threatens to prorogue it if the sul jeot is further pressed upon her. The third act has refrence to the Spaui-h imbro lio and Elizabeth's love for the Earl of hj ssex, Mary Smart's un- ■ ortunate doom forming no small portion of &he drama’.io element, while it »nds with the condemnation of Essex to the block. In the fourth act rlizabeth is greatly agitated at not receiving a ring which she had given to the rarl, the receipt of which by her would have proour d his pardon ; but while f/ady Howard is in the act of informing the Queen that the harl had confided the ring to her, and that her husband had taken possession of it, the sentence is carried into effect. Overpowered by remorse, Elizabeth curses Sir Francis Bacon, and confesses her love for Essex. The death-bed scene of the Queen in the fifth and last act ought to be very effective, displaying as it does all the passions and feelings of »he woqnn and the monarch ; and >jl though she has bequeathed the crown to James of Scotland, she dies in auger upon hearing the people shouting with joy upon hearing the name of her successor. I here is ample material in the plot for the development of talent by the exponent cf the principal character, and it is said that in America and Australia Mrs Bites received considerable praise for her' conception and rendering of it.