LOST IN LONDON.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3730, 7 February 1891, Page 2

LOST IN LONDON.

The play bearing the above, title, which has been seleoted by the management of the Royal Dramatic Company for their debut on Monday 'night, is one well calculated to afford great scope for the display of I histrionio ability. Originally- jper-■ r ;' ! formed ! at the Royal Prinoess'a' • t /, Theatre in London when the, .; bharacter of the Lancashire Hmer,', \ Job Armroyd, was sustained George Neville, himself a Lancashire man, the piece at once jumped into popularity , . from the picturesque nature of the st&ry, and ( theyjvid ; •,]« piofcure, a present of the perils and vicissitudes of a miner's fife. The 4 . v stotfy is a simple one., but intensely B dramatic, and the scenes between Job Armroyd and his wife Kelly, are worked up to a pitch of intensity that bompels , -the enthusiasm of the audience. The Royal Dramatic Company has achieved great p'optalatAi- ■; '<■ ity in this play, and the leading characters in the able hands of Miss Austen Eliot, Miss Amy Obl&man,® 1 ' HN Dougla3,jand Mr A Woods are done ajchplejustice .to if our northern contemporaries euiogistic notices are to be credited. THe .Company ' announce a change of programme eaoh evening, the second piece being;. ;, .full of sensationalism and entitled > Flag, and the season wilf finish with the ; -late Charles Reade's dramatisation of Lord Tennyfctin'B ' exquisite idyll • 15 ;/ r '- Dora, well-known as the eminent aotor Charles Manner's master pieoe. A box plafc has been* opened at ; the.j; Educational' Depository, Queen-st,, where, seats can be marked off for ■ each performance. Avery pleaß&nt season, as fiar as the publio is con • cerned, andprofitable one to the company) may' be anticipated in view of the novelties promised.