MEMENTO MORI
DESIGNS OF LONG AGO ■'ll (By Air Mail—From .Our Own Correspondent) LONDON, 10th October. Anyone, who wants to realise how taste has changed in things theatrical ought to visit the Victoria arid Albert Museum now. They are holding an exhibition of - Victorian and Edwardian theatre posters, which is officially described as humorous as well .as interesting. It . certainly is both. These lurid designs of long ago—and yet not so long, measured in lifetimes —recall the stark melodrama tliat delighted our forefathers of the London hamlet. To-day there is not-, in all London,' a single picture'-poster- advertising a stage production. But at South Kensington the visitor will find vivid depiction of heroes, heroines, and, not least, Adel-phiau-villains of-the- deepest dye, together with succinct extracts from the dialogue that have aHuB-ljloodedyririg which moves the post-war. generation to mirth. We have outgrown the “un-hand-me-villam” playgoing epoch. And yet what a vogue there was, only.the other day, for Sweeney Tod and the Red Barn! v
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 16 November 1935, Page 7
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163MEMENTO MORI Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 16 November 1935, Page 7
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