THE LINGARDS.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1801, 28 November 1879, Page 2

THE LINGARDS.

For real outspoken criticism (says the " Sporting and Dramatic News ") the " Batburst Sentinel" would be hard to beat. " Our correspondent" has lately been to visit the Melbourne theatres, and he writes of the performers ho does not like in terms which, in American parlance, are likely to make them " sit up and howl"—if, indeed, they do not treat their critic with that contempt which is, perhaps, the sentiment chiefly invoked by his lucubrations. The principal actor at one theatre where " Our Boys " and " H.M.S. Pinafore" are being played is a Mr Lingard, and of this house the correspondent writes curtly : —" As Lingard is in both pieces I did not care for them, for I can't bear the little beaßt—l heard enough about his Yankee bebaviour from one of the pursers in the 'Frisco mail boats, and could never look on him with anything but contempt." Mr Garner, the manager of another theatre, he describes as "the tallest and worst actor we ever knew, and the meanest, barring little Lingard." The operatic notices are in equally bad taste. Of a Signor Verdi who plays the Count in the " Sonnambula," the critic says :—" Barring his stomach he is the finest-looking artiste I have seen on a Btage for years, and if he don't Blide into the affections, or break the gizzards of half our Sydney girls, it's a pretty certain sign there's a scarcity of balm in Gilead." Ihe " Bathurst Sentinel " is a sixpenny paper, and it is as well that the proprietor should make hay while the sun shines, for if they have anything in the nature of Lord Campbell's Act in Australia the journal is not likely to have a long life.