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Evening Star, Issue 6821, 8 February 1886, Page 4

The first dining-room car has just been attached to one of the British railways. Far, far better for you than beer, ale, or porter, and free from intoxicating effects, is American Go’s Hop Bitters. Bead, Mr Sydney Grundy is the latest addition to the list of playwrights-in-orcUnary to the Princess’s Theatre. He is writing nothing less than a five-act tragedy, if not absolutely in collaboration with Mr Wilson Barrett, at least at Mr Banett’s suggestion. The scene is Athens, and the period about B.c. 400; but though the action hangs on a historical peg, it is not itself historical. It is to bo a pure tragedy, dealing in human passions and emotions, not in theatrical situations or trick scenery, and it is to bo written, partly at least, in blank verse. The play on which Messrs Jones and Barrett are collaborating will precede it at the Princess’s, so that it may possibly be a year or so before it is preduood,