THE HAYMARKET MANAGEMENT.

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

THE HAYMARKET MANAGEMENT.

The Frederick Harrison —Cyril Maude partnership, at the Haymarket Theatre, will go down to posterity as one of the most successful combinations in theatrical history. For the nine years they have worked in double harness they have not been able to do wrong—or at least to suffer for it. They have produced some pieces which I don’t hesitate to say would have stood a very poor chance at any other West End theatre ; but at the Haymarket they enjoyed the luck of the management, and prospered accordingly. And now the end of the partnership is in sight, and in July next Messrs Harrison and Maude will go their several ways. Or, rather, the former, as lessee of the Haymarket, will remain in possession, and Mr and Mrs Maude will set up in business for themselves elsewhere—probably in a new theatre. The joint-man-agement has during nine years achieved its success by dint of excellent judgment of plays, casts, and audiences, and sheer hard work. They have earned their luck, and they will, doubtless, continue to retain it by virtue of the same methods. One may perhaps be allowed to express a sentimental regret that they should have agreed to separate, although it will be, one foresees, for the good oi the playgoing public, whereas we have hitherto had one Haymarket management we shall hereafter have two. And we certainly cannot have too many.