NEW PIECES IN LONDON.

Evening Post, Volume LXXII, Issue 66, 15 September 1906, Page 13

NEW PIECES IN LONDON.

Robin Hood will be tfie central figure in a new musical play to be produced in London by Mr. Lewis Waller about 15th October (writes a correspondent to a Sydney pap&r). The British Museum and Nottingham Castle have been ransacked for their records by the authors, Messrs. Henry Hamilton and William Devereaux, in order that tho mediaeval atmosphere of the period may be established. lhe scenes are laid in and about Sherwood Forest and Nottingham Cattle. The main theme of the piece is, of, course, tho love story ot Robin and Maid Marian, And for the underplot there is the ancient rivalry of "Lackland" — the Prince John of the play— and Coeur de Lion. It is the time of Richard's imprisonment in Austria, and the very song which Blondel is supposed to linve sung outside his prison wall is put into the mouth of one of tho characters. One of the most popular composers of musical comedy at the present day is Mr. Howard Tnlbot, who- has given us the music of "The Chinese Honoymoon" and other pieces, including "The Blue Moon," one of Mr. J. C. Williamson's new pieces. Mr. Talbot is the composer of another work of this class. "The Maid of the Ferry," which is to be produced in London about the end of tho year by Mi. Frank Curzon, who achieved oiie of his greatest successes at the Strand with "A Chinese Honeymoon." Miss Isabel Jay is to appear as the heroine. Mr. Wulter Slaughter has been at work on the musi6 of a new piece shortly to bo seen in London, "Lady Tatters," a comic opera of the Restoration period. Kinc Chnrlcs will bo a prominent figure in tho story.

A. and 8., two mombers of a certain fashionable club, had a disputo about some trifling point, and thereafter met as strangers. Coming across his opponent one ovening at a theatre, and anxious to snub him, A. pretended to mistake B. for an attendant, and said, holding out his hand, "Hnvo you got a programme?" But the other was too quick for him. "Yes; thank you, my man," ho retorted; "I got one from the other attendant,."