RECENT PRODUCTIONS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIII, Issue 769, 1 December 1904, Page 20

RECENT PRODUCTIONS.

“ Beauty and the 1 ” Barge ” is a-'booming at the New Theatre, London, and the same satisfactory condition of things obtains at the Vaudeville. “ The Prayer of the Sword,’" which is now played in four acts, is meeting with considerable favour, and Mr George Alexander’s production, “ The Garden of Lies,” which was not too demonstratively received by the critics, is playing to excellent business at the St. James’s. Mr Sydney Grundy’s dramatisation of Mr Justus Miles Forman’s novel does not make a perfect play, but it contains in the situations and the acting the stuff to attract, and the audiences applaud the production with enthusiasm at every performance. At the Duke of York’s “ Merely Mary Ann ” has caught on in no uncertain fashion, and matinees of Mr Zangwill’s comedy are now given on both Thursdays and Saturdays. “ Winnie Brooke, Widow,” on the other hand, early exhausted its drawing powers at the Criterion.