ADELPHI THEATRE.

“MEASURE FOB MEASURE.”

Lucio ... pjQVOS(; „ . Elbow... Froth ' — "*

Fompey Abhorson

Vincentio Angelo Esealus Claudio

. Mr. Waiter Hammjkn

. Mr. Oboae Asche

. Mr. Aikbed Beydone

. Mr. Habooubi Williams

. Mr. B. Ian. Penny

. Mr. H. B. Hignett

. Mr. G. Kay Soueer

.. Mr. Edmund Waiseb

- Mr. Ohaeues Rock .. Mr. Caleb Portes

Barnardino .„ T ... JSeDelia — Mariana w-^-oisca '

Mistress Overdone

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■ " Measure for Measure does not happen

to be one of our favourite livres de chevet, we

woni,t faT -rasher rear! it than it nlaved For ^oulu lar rather read it than see 16 played, mor

id reading one can skip most of the “ story part anel all the “ comic business ” in order to dwell . , . ,, ... ....

at leisure on the ‘ sentiments with their fine

rhetorical moralizing on the great commonplaces of life and death, mercy aid justice, passion and * Tn* IHa +hoatrA_ of mhtsa. no <,0^

process of selection is . /possible. There the childishness of the plot is thrust under our noses .2nd the absolutely idiotic.behaviour of the Duke $3* sq to speak, rubbed, into us. There the jack-r>^—

Pudding nonsensc of Fompey and the appalling

tiresomeness of Elbow and the wishy-washy iapes

one cannot help seeing what a " thin piece of -^orlL is the character of Angelo and what a mere ficelle is Mariana. Thus the resultant impression

from the acted play is by no means one of unmixed

pleasure. We have seen a number of people, very

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or whom wo can entirely believe HL and none

of whom we can entirely like.- We cannot like a

Mr. Herbert GrimwoOD Miss Leet Bratton ... —

~ Miss...