Theatre Royal.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3303, 23 July 1879, Page 2

Theatre Royal.

Mi" Engtgecl^pr ihe^^^Jfe^riage," a comedy by W. S. Gilbert, was performed last evening by the Chaplin-Osborne Company at the above^, place of amusement. It is needless to say that the -tomedy i« a(jgood 'fpneij the .language sparkling with wit and reparteievjaUhough the situations are- rather numerous, calling for jm,ore than ordinary powers from the impersonators of the prinoipal characters. Mr Chaplin last night played the part of Cheviot fftfl, a young man of property, with a great failing for a pretty face. For a joke he admits while vieiting the; borders of Sootland, that a certain young lady, Belinda Trehernei Miss; Olborne, whom he had met, and whose name or eironmstances he was totally unacquainted with, was bis wife, which edmissioAlUuder the circumstances constituted a marriage ceremony by the law of Sootland. He •afterwards. protniws to ra«cy Maggie McFarlane, a Scotch lassie, and after* wavds Minnie Symperson, an artless lassie/ Rbd fiiebd 6f;;BelindtMTrelierne. This peculiarity of Cheviot gets him into innumerable scraps, giving scope for Mv Chaplin to. diipUy]Ms poVers as a comedian. He sustained the character apparently without effort last night, and j 1 afforded amuie'm^t'aii£l;dauJe3or laugh* ter to the audience, who frequently applauded him during the performance. Miss Osborne.wasTeqtalljMauecessful in the character of Belinda, and Miss Lillie Marsh played the part of Minnie very • nicely; I Mr St. Lawrence as;' Selvawney, the magnetic, the witness to the Scotch marriage, helped materially to keep the piece goingv as)ElsO.didrit# iTolano as Symperson, the pathetic, father^f Minuie; and Mr McGowan, a Scotchman, Augus Macalister. --'; The; 1 closed with the farce of Mr and Mrs Peter White, in which Mr Holt appeared to advantage. . ■ ■ \ To-night Borneo and Juliet will be produped, and in, the, hands of the present company should bo a treat rfot always to be obtained on the Thames.