THEATRE ROYAL.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2344, 7 October 1881, Page 3

THEATRE ROYAL.

It is to be regretted that so capable a company as that under the leadership of Miss Fomeroy should waste their talents on a pieoe of such maudlin sentiment as "East Lynns." The piece is one of those which with advantage might be relegated to the waste paper basket as entirely and utterly unworthy of a place on our stage. Miss Fomeroy was appropriately melancholy and goody goody in the dual part of Lady Isabel and Madame Vine. It is not saying too muoh to observe that she has not appeared to such disadvantage during the season as in this piece. The character is one with which she is by no means en rapport, and the result is disappointing in the extreme. Miss Jo-da Grey made as much as is possible out of the very unthankful part of Barbara Hare. She looked pretty, and in this respect no doubt fulfilled the greatest requirement of it. Miss Kate Arden's Cornelia Oarlyle was not a suocess. Though ecoentric, Miss Carlyle was a lady, and would never use such a slang term as " booaing," which Miss Arden made her do. Mr Fleming's Archibald Carlyle was the least successful of any character he has yet appeared in. Heavy and dolorous from the first, without the least relieving point in it, the dreariness of the play evidently had affected him, and the result was not such as one could have wished. Mr Holloway's Levison, too, was far from being successful. Indeed, it is hard to imagine any part to which this really good actor would be more unsuited. Mr Hoskins, as Lord Mount Severn, resembled nothing more than an undertaker marshalling the friends of the departed, and the frequent use of a painfully clean handkerchief added greatly to the illusion that he was present in a professional capacity. No doubt while playgoers patronise such morbidly emotional plays as " East Lynne," managers will continue to produce them, but the sooner Miss Fomeroy strikes it from her repertoire the better. To-night " Led Astray" will be played.