MR AND MRS BATES AT THE PRINCESS THEATRE.

Evening Star, Issue 3658, 12 November 1874, Page 2

MR AND MRS BATES AT THE PRINCESS THEATRE.

T.-cipile an advance in piae - . llicrc was a tub lii.-u o tile slabs aiul )>.£ being crowded —at iho IVince ;-’s bs.u, evening to welcome air and Mrs F. M. Lucs. “ f bzabvth,” the play m which I hey introduced th niselves. is now to a Dum-din an lienand Mr Lues hiiuv.’if is credited with being us al.v.tor Gonq.nuvd with another play ■ f the si me title ivt have se-u, and wish '•-Inch the name <>l Mrs Mary Gla Islam is inti Jiatdy associated m the neighboring Volumes. the adavration millers greatly. 1-,. abounds in hightliwii lau.uagc, amt th) action is of-.one melodrama - ic than tragic 13 it ha character ol Eliz belli is one eminently calculated to demonstrate Mrs Lites’s cabal) lities. TV youth and good lo As she a ds undoubted dramatic abilit, of no mean order, and she d.esroj careieil y and wed Her it raw backs aie pimcipally the poem larky of proiiuuciat;ou ob.crv dde in Amc ic u anises, and a rigid observance of stage Im moss and m-;n----iioiism. Toe peculiarity of intonation • hough not o strongly marked m Mrs Pates as ;n hor midland, sounded rather disagreeable at first, but, wore oft consider,b'y a” the play pi oec.de.l. We liked her most in the second and fourth acts, thou.-h, J ;dying by moj iucieased appiausc in the final scone a here, with the n.utd of death upo’i Ivor, < u haring tho populace announce with cheers the suceosAon to the Crown of James of -ocotl uol, she gathers flp her remaining streng hj to proclaim fiat die is yet Q mens', as the in ss liming widi ri,c audience. On the wide, it was a iiig ; ly cio ikable per fo'nn cc, and can b,> .-ecu ayaoi with pleasure. Of the otr-cr ch ira.ters little requires to b; s viil. Wo regard Ess-x as about fie most u likely put to de clop Mr lialeds powers; a< Jam-;a of feo'laul, Air tede was unusually vigorous ; while in the bands of Mrs Hdl and Mr Musgravo th-; parts of La ly Howard and Goal Lirhi.di were wdl c'-re.i f>r. iho uulivi hi ;.l who pel form.;d ibe duties of sojrtdary deserves a lino to •iin.soif. iSut < lily wai hi thoroughly original in Ins cone union of his duties, bur, lu blundered most a Uni rally in delivering nimself ol the omy two important speeches uii.li which ho was Imnlt-ncl. To the management we might mi gg-wt, for the sake of consistency, the advisability of either provi ling a few guards, or of excising the freon, nt allusion s , made by the Qi.cu to those idiidais, who, last evening, were eo > ; rricu:>u -i •>y their absence. *• Elizabeth ’ will ba repeated this evening.