New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-14
LONDON NOTES.
,opr NTSKETEERS. WITH / BACK
cpOI ND OF PANORAMA BYPLAY OF
IIOOLEYISM IN THE COURTS
AND MARKETS.

-, ,,,r;h production Of the "Musketeers" for
-, soason First there was the Saintsbury
,o-,ation al the Holloway Theatre: next came
AZ uamiltons acting version at the Metropole.
c,,her,NeN and subsequently at the Globe: then
.ho-e was a revival Of the old text by Mrs Lane
-, the Britannia. Hoxton: and finally there has
hon Mr. Grundy's picture play at Her Majesty's
Theatre "a a companion piece to the Julius
cosar" of Mr. Alma Tadema. At this rate good
IA Alexandre Dumas is in fair way to become
classic author a few months after the trum-
,bal nrosress Of NJ Rostands "Cyrano de Ber-
o-ac" from Paris to London and thence across
.,o seas Even caprcious Paris is touched with
. r,rnorsoful sense Of neglect Of an od-time ia
,,-l-e for Les Trois Mousquetaires' is to be re-
vlved there.
This famous romance offers an aluring entice-
mont 70 the dramatic adapter in the fact that il
stocked with material for score Of plays II
,.n be converted into a series of melodramas
with the Musketeers. or Athos, or DArtagnan,
o. Niladv. or the Cardinal. or tine Duke OF Buck
,nchann or the Queen. or Fenton the leading
Characters out Of it may he fashioned a stage
-on,,nco 4, suit the temper and style Of any
actor or actress. and each ard every variant in
Corn, will carry back tho oldest PLAY goer in the
audience 10 a period Of ca'ow youth when the
hook was read for the first time and there
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unity. hut the audience is invariably indulgent
and easily pleased because il Is transported into
tho dreamlard 90 youth. The years roll away as
quickly ana noiSelcssy as the scenes are shifted;
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f.elly falls upon gliterIns scene "' magn'n-
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exposition ~ me MANY Oh ''''@uS' - ''''S'''"
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