THEATRE ROYAL.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1744, 22 September 1879, Page 3

THEATRE ROYAL.

Under various titles Stirling Coyne's celebrated drama, "Fraud and its Victims," has been produced, and for the most part successfully when the company performing have been equal to the requirements of the cast. The version known as "The Streets of London," presented at the Theatre Royal on Saturday night, was no exception to the rule. The story of the fraudulent banker, which also forms the ground work of Charles Reade's famous novel, " Hard Cash," is too well known to need any description, and the present management of ' the Theatre Royal placed the drama on the ■ stage in a highly effective manner. Like all their reoent productions sinoe the advent of Mr Wybert Reeve, " The Streets of London " . owed a great deal of its success to the realistic character of the scenery. The view of Westminster Abbey by gaslight, painted by Mr Williams, was a gem of piotorial 'London, and was deservedly applauded, though during a portion of the scene the effect was ludicrously marred by a clumsy - auxiliary running against a lamp-poit and knooking it down. The cast was a most i judicious one, Mr Wybert Reeve's Tom Trumps was one of those racy oreations in which he revels. The reckless rascal, out at • elbows with the world, with yet > leaven of honest manliness that will not permit him to • see the widow and orphan wronged, was most graphically depicted. Mr D'Orsay Ogden was a good representative of Captain Heartwell in the prologue, played with power ■ tempered by judgment, and he was equally - successful in the subsequent acts as Walter. Mr J. GK Joyce played the pieman, Martin • Pounce, with great humor, and Mr F. W. . Fisher was sufficiently hard and unrelenting ■ as the banker, Michael Stone. Mis Bronton as Alice Stone, Mrs Fitzwilliam. as Mrs Heart well, and Miss Lizzie Lawrence as Fatty } Roselips were all good, and Miss Ada Lester played the role of Marian Heartwell with i muoh sweetness and pathos. The same piece will be repeoted this evening.