THEATRE ROYAL.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2103, 19 November 1880, Page 3

THEATRE ROYAL.

" Shin Fane" still holds the boards at the Theatre Royal, and, from the manner in which playgoers patronise it, is by no means losing its popularity. It will be played again to-night. To-morrow a now piece, eatitlod " The Irißh Deteotive," will be produced. Speaking of its production in Sydney the "Daily Telegraph" said that it "proved itself to be one of the most attractive of dramas. It is a thoroughly popular composition, abounding with those incidents and tableaux which never fail to draw good audiences. Its plot is simple enough, and it has evidently been written to give facilities for a series of impersonations. It is fabricated from reports which appeared some years ago under the head of ' Mysterious Disappearances'' in the 'New York Herald,' and tells in plain language the modus operandi of the criminals engaged in the nefarious trade. According to the revelations of the ' Irish Detective,' young men with money were decoyed by moans of a handsome young lady into the house of a certain doctor, and there, after being robbed, were murdered, and their bodies thrown into the immense sowers underneath the city. It is the business of the detective to unravel the mystery attaching to the constant disappearances, and in this character Mr Grattan Eiggs shows a versatility scarcely credible. He is compelled to use disguises, male and female, and to place himself in the greatest and most imminent peril, in order to carry out his plans; while the writer has, with much ingenuity, contrived situations in which the special characteristics of Mr Biggs are dearly displayed."