"ALONE IN LONDON"

Evening Star, Issue 7343, 15 October 1887, Page 3

"ALONE IN LONDON"

The above is the title of tho great spectacular and sensational drama to bo produced by Mr Band II .It and hit talented company at the Princess's Theatre on Thursday m xt. The ' Sydney Morning Hera'd,' iu desc:ibir>ir the pint and leading features of the drama, says: -"tt wou'd be a ditiicuit nutter to present a play of greater efficiency. A title such us ' Alone in London ' is broad enough and couiprehen iveenou.h to take in a great dtal of life and interest. Anyone who had the pleafetre and the experience of siting out the representation of this great drama on Saturday evcnii g would not be slew in coming to the conclusion that it is interring, rea'istic, and attractive. Plenty of scope is given for the bush of the scnio "artiit (Mr Georgo Gordon I *, who hai avai'ed himself of it to the fnl'fst extent, and execti td some of the most beautiful views ever seen on cwvas Tee success of the play is ensured by these charming pictures alone. Ti-ere are two great characters in the dramaAnnie Meadows and Richard Redcliffe. The latter is a Londoner and an adventurer of the very worst type, who marries the former for the sake of securing some li tie property she has. In the prologue we see the marriage determimd on, while a goodhearted honest fellow—one John Biddlecomb, a wealthy miller -U refused. Thero is a waif and stray named Gip=y Tom, who befriends Annie Meadows, and by hii raves.lropp'ng piopcnfity is always cognisant of the schemes and plans of Redcliffe and his companion?, amongst whom are inc'uded Spricgins, a swell, and Jenkinson, an innkeepe-. Six yrars having elapsed, the drama discloeei Mr and Mrs Rcdcl ffe, with a little son (P-iull leading a life of unutteiable miseiy. He parses his time in plotting and scheming how to get the money of other people without ea-ning if, and she is left to ptsi a painful existence in a low lodging-home in Drnry Lane. She is subsequently raised from this degradation by a benevolei.t gentleman, but her husband, in a moat diabolicil w*y, reduc s her again to the old level. She is ultiinctsly driven to des, eration by his shimeful conduct in taking her Utile son Paul from her to use as an instmment in toSbing her benefactor alluded to. Vowing vengeance she is tied up, and the Thames floodgates thrown open on her. Biddlecomb, her quondira lover, sives her from drowning, and the two proc?ed to the premises of Mr Birnaby (on who a the ro bery is to te perpjtrated), where they arrive just in time to frustrate RedclinVs intention Hi-ro Redcliffe is killed by Giphv Tom, and the curtain fills." The full cißt of characters a d other details of the programme appear in our adverti-in? columns. The company are expected to reach Danedin ly the Mararoa, from Melbourne, to-morrow aftertoon.