This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ... comedies--that is the tale of Mr. Sydney Grundy's work1 during the period under review. I have named the items in the inverse order of their importance. The vaudeville, "La Cosaque," at the Royalty, may be dismissed with a mere mention. Of the two operettas, operettas, one, "The Vicar of Bray," at the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ... comedies--that is the tale of Mr. Sydney Grundy's work1 during the period under review. I have named the items in the inverse order of their importance. The vaudeville, "La Cosaque," at the Royalty, may be dismissed with a mere mention. Of the two operettas, operettas, one, "The Vicar of Bray," at the Globe, was fairly successful; the other, "Pocahontas," was a' failure at the Empire. Both librettos were written with a neatness worthy of Mr. Gilbert, and both contained many ingenious and amusing ideas. "Pocahontas " was ruined by the total inability of the leading actress to put any spirit or humour into her part, the Indian princess appearing in all the blonde exuberance of the pure-bred Teuton, and indicating her savage nature only by an extreme scantiness of drapery. The real misfortune of both productions, however, lay in the music of Mr. Edward Solomon, a composer whose technical merits are, I believe, considerable, but who possesses in a very minor degree the gift of insinuating and haunting melody, essential -"Racheir in comic opera. "Rachel," the one drama on Mr. Grundy's list, was written for Miss Genevieve 1 "A Novel Reader," privately performed at the Globe, is mentioned in a subsequent essay on "The Censorship of the Stage," p. 138. Ward, and produced by her at the Olympic. Its prologue was a masterpiece of exposition, rapid, crisp, amusing, and interesting. In the three acts which followed there were several strong situations and much admirable dialogue, but Mr. Grundy had suffered his admiration for modern French workmanship to tempt him into over-ingenuity. The interweaving of motives was in reality logical enough, but to ke"ep the strands clear required a greater mental exertion than could reasonably be demanded of an...
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