ASCHE’S “JOHN BULL.”
COOL RECEPTION. LONDON, Oct. 28. A comparatively cool reception was given Oscar Asche’s lates play, “John Lull.’' There is scarcely a glimmer of £un in three long acts, savouring of pantomime. The critics are facetiously suggesting that Asche remembered the nearness of Christmas. According to Asche’s interpretation, a British earl, in the “good old days,” abused his wife in the choicest Billingsgate language, but did not swear either at the parson the lawyer, or the maid, an dalso used loaded dice to fleece a Spanish Ambassador. The critics applaud the spectacular scenes, founded on Cecil Aldm’s hunting pictures.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 288, 9 November 1925, Page 9
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