THEATRE ROYAL.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2201, 16 March 1881, Page 3

THEATRE ROYAL.

“THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL.” It is ft thousand pities that the company, having aoored ao many Buccessea on the Uhriatohuroh boards during the present season, should have undertaken u play which evidently does not lie within their scope, lb is not detracting from the merits of the company to say that last night's performance was a miserable failure, because it is evidently impossible for a single set of actors to include in their programme every description or theatrical representalion. A first-class musician might well fail in dance music, and a first-class painter in caricature. The present company have given us admirable renderings of some of Shakespeare's finest works, and of several descriptions of melodramas, but the “School for Scandal” should never have been included in their repertoire. Herr Bandmann as Charles Surßca was vapid DB y i almost listless. In not one of the acts in which ho appeared did he throw the slightest life into the performance. The scene in which he is drinking with his friends and afterwards sells his ancestors’ portraits was dull us ditchwater. S > was the one in which Lady Teazle was discovered in Joseph Surface’s room. The rollicking kindhearted ruku was last night transformed into a nondescript individual, who did rot appear to enjoy life in the slightest. Mr Reynolds, as Joseph Surface, wai pasrablo, as was Mr Hall’s Sir Oliver. Mr Out heart’s Sir P-’ter was decidedly good. The part was carefully and well played, and the points brought out with great effect. Mr Tasman did Sir BanSamin Backbite, and subsequently the stage ow, with considerable power. Miss Denude t’a Lady Teazle was a pleasing rendering, though it was cert -inly tot up to her usual standard, being a trifle rketchy. Miss Hathaway and Miss Crawford were good as Lady Bneorwell and Mrs Candour, To night “Bast Lynne” will be given uni Herr Bandmaun’s version of “ David Garrick.’’