THEATRE ROYAL.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2205, 21 March 1881, Page 3

THEATRE ROYAL.

" INGOMAB." This fine old-fashioned melodrama was given on Saturday night in a highly effioient manner. For the benefit of those who may not know the plot, we give a short resume of it. Myron, an armourer of the Greek colony Massillia (Marseilles), is captured by a tribe of Allemanni, who are ravaging the neighbourhood. His daughter, Parthenia, being Unable to raise the ransom necessary to_ free him, determined to seek herself the chief of the tribe and beg ber father's release. She finds the chief, Ingomar, surrounded by his rude followers, and, although she cannot gain her father's unconditional release, yet she makes an arrangement by which be is to return to the colony to work out the required sum, while she is to stay behind as hostage. Ingomar falls in lovo with Parthenia, and learns, by degrees, what true love is, in contradistinction to the feeling entertained by the Allemanni towards their women. Finally, he leaves his tribe and returns with Parthenia to Massillia, where he learns the ways of the Greeks, After some plotting and counterplotting, in which the miserly Polydor, another lover of Parthenia, figures, Ingomar finally is raised to an honorable position and marries the lady, of his affections. Herr Bandmann, as the savage German, gradually subdued and civilized by love, was exceedingly good. His awakening to the power sf the " grand passion," and his gradual abandonment of all his most cherished habits under the same influence, were powerfully rendered. Miss Beaudet, as Parthenia, was quite in her element, the playful and yet spirited Greek maiden being given to the life. Mrßeynolds's Polydor was telling, his get-up being particularly noticeable. Mr Hall made a capital Timarch. Mr Cathcart, as Myron, gave an amusing picture of a cowardly Greek dropped suddenly iuto tbe uncongenial company of the roughest of barbarians. To-night will be given " Othello," with Herr Bandmann as lago and Mr Oathoart as Othello.