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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1933.
Art and Drama
FIFTY YEARS OF THE
THEATRE..
Mr. J. T. Grein Looks Back.
On December 9 Mr. J. T. Grein was entertained to dinner by the Circle. The dinner was Critics' partly to celebrate his seventieth year, partly his fiftieth year of dramatic criticism, and generally for the entire profession to thank this early sponsor of Shaw, and Ibsen for a lifetime devoted to making the staga of London a more interesting place.
Covent has just century.
Covent Garden Memories
Two Hundred Years Of Triumph
ILLUSTRIOUS HISTORY
(By H. SAXE WYNDHAM).
THE CHINA MAIL.
ARTISTS FACE THE DEPRESSION.
Drastic Methods Of New Organisation.
Vienna.
Painters, sculptors and writers are suttering great distress and the painters have devised a plan to advertise their plight under the motto "Save Art" Carry Hauser, the well known painter and etcher, is the president of the new ganisation.
Three motor vane: carried in different directions a number of men and women from the Sezession
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Garden Opera House amusement worthy of the name, Exhibition building the other day. completed its second there were only the three "patent"; They were dressed in white and
The writer of this theatres of Lincoln's Inn-fields, grey working clothes and Included pany of great artists too numerous article is Secretary of the Guild- Drury-lane, and the King's Thea- some well-known artlats among to name. In 1812 Mrs. Siddons re- Mr. Shaw was present-and Mr. ball School of Music.
tre in the Haymarket.
them. The vans discharged their sured, and four years later a com- Shaw attends very few official din- Has Bay theatre or opera house A patent was granted to John cargo in various lively squares ing atar, William Charles Mac- ners these days. So were
(in Europe a more illustrious his- Rich, formerly of Lincoln's Inn- where walls were empty for new ready, made his first bow to Covent many other survivors of the struggletary, or even a longer one, than the fields, for the construction of the posters and the pointers, equipped Garden playgoers. All the stars when the battle of the modern Royal Opera House of Covent Gar- new theatre in Covent Gardon. Rich with brushes and colour pots, set could not save the fortunes of the
had obtained a lease from the Duke to work upon figures in gorgeous place. drama was furiously being fought den? It may well be doubted.
La Monnale, at Brussels, certain-of Bedford of a plot of ground at colours. Speed was their watch- The Keans, great father and Mr. Grein, since on his own ad- dates from 1700, but the great £100 a year as ground rent; he word and crowds of spectators worthy acu, appeared together at mission has seen some 12,000 plays Milanese establishment, La Scala, collected £6,000 for the cost of the gathered and cheered the excellent Covent Garden in 1993. In suc- was not built till 1778; the San building, which soon was complet- work that was proceeding in record ceeding years the theatre passed Carlo at Naples opened
ined. From that time onwards 1737, And the Costanzi at Covent Garden has had few rivals
out in the nineties.
in his career, was how he was still alive and had kept sane through
play out to the--often bitter-end.
my studies In criminology.
time.
the
under the control of many manage- It is hoped that in this rather monts, none of them financially them. Expressing his opinion as Rome and the Staatsopera at or compeers as a place of public drastic way attention has been successful, not even that of to why he was still alive and, had
Vienna are even moro re-entertainment in this country o kept mane through them, he said
drawn to the artists' predicament Macready. Then came the Vestria- and that customers will once more Mathows period, and in 1847 "It is because I have an enthusiasm cent. And it can scarcely be claim any other.
Garrick on The Stage.
be discovered. that is unremitting. Every time Ied for any of these that their on-
·!
emergence of the Royal Italian go to the theatre I go full of hope.nals possess the almost universal
What a list could be compiled of
Opera. In 1856 the theatre was I always try to And something in public interest which the famous composers and dramatists, famous David Garrick himself accepted an again in flames, and again it was a play that is good, I ait every English theatre excited from the singers, actors, and actresses, engagement at Covent Garden to rebuilt, the outer shell of the pre-
earliest years of its existence,
wits, tragedians, celebrated beau- play with Quin.
sent structure being then erected. I run this enthusiasm tandem with If, 38 some hold, the ether stil ties and notorious ruffians, of On March 15, 1773, Oliver Gold-The house was reopened. In 1859.
contains within itself all sounds kings and queens, statesmen and smith's "She Stoops to Conquer" At this time Gye was the Im- Every Saturday. for the last over set afloat upon it, what a con- courtiers, whose lives were at one was first produced on the Covent presarto, and an impressive host seventeen years I have been down course of lovely strains must still time or another bound up with this Garden stage, with the timid of operatic stars began to shine- to Marlborough-street Police Court, faintly haunt the heavens that ema-noble old playhouse! Its gigantic author's staunch supporter. Dr. notably Patti (In 1861), Mario, presided over by my old friend nated from this corner of London successes, its. heartbreaking Samuel Johnson, shouting approval Grisi, Santley, Albani, and others. Mr. Mead, the doyen of London in the last two centuries,
failures, the furorea of excitement, in the audience. Then, in 1789, The surplus energy of Augustus magistrates. There is often more Only Three Theatres. the disgraceful riots and its awful Macklin, at the reputed age of 90, Harris was diverted in 1887 from drama in a court than there is in From Arne and Handel to Rimfires all have passed into history. took leave of the drama there in "The Lane" to Covent Garden, and the De Reszkes, Lassalle, It was at Covent Garden that his great part of Shylock. sky-Korsakoff and Strauss is a far cry indeed. When Covent Garden the immortal Handel found his In swift succession followed Calve, and other great artists be- Theatre first opened its doors with spiritual (and earthly) home until many historie debuts and fare-came familiar names in England. to judge what people do and say a performance of Cosgrove's "Way his death in 1769. There the wells. A disastrous fire destroyed Under his management, "Meliter and think on the stage.” (In of the World," music in London, jearliest London performances of the house in 1808, when twenty-singer," "Tristan and Isolde," and cidently, "Max" has streased this and English mufe in particular, 'the "Messiah” were given, and three firemen perished. point, and put it in writing that in a decidedly parlous state, there a scarcely less illustrious the late Sir Charles Russell, cross- Opera, as it is known to us to-day, composer, Franz Joseph Haydn. examining, seemed to him a greater was complete non-existent, con- produced "The Creation" in 1808. and more terrifying performer than, certs were few and far between. Peg Wolfington made her debut on any actor.)
Of theatres providing secular its boards in 1740. Six years later
a theatre. What living people have actually done and said and thought
la not to be neglected if one wants
"The Valkyrie" were added to the House Twice In Flames. repertoire. Later the Syndicate The theatre replacing it was took charge, and we come to the opened by John Philli Kemble Great War, when the vast building and his greater sister Mra. Sid- became a furniture warehouse, till dons, supported by a superb com- again music was ravived.
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