Dramatic Performance.
Perhaps the most interesting of these gatherings is an Amateur Dramatic Performance, held at the Lyceum Theatre, wherein the corps exhibited an array of talent, of which it might justly feel proud. The performance was so successful that it was repeated. The following is a copy of the programme:
PRINCE OF WALES’ OWN
Civil Service Rifle Volunteers.
HONORARY COLONEL, H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES, K.G.
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL, VISCOUNT BURY, M.P.
On WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1861,
WILL BE PERFORMED, FOR THE SECOND TIME, AT THE
THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM,
By Special Desire,
The original Comedy by CAPTAIN TOM TAYLOR, C.S.R.V.,
ENTITLED:
“A LESSON FOR LIFE.”
| Lord Greystoke | Lieutenant DEWAR | |
| The Hon. Marmaduke Dacre | Under- graduates of St Barnabas College, Cambridge | Captain J. DU PLAT TAYLOR |
| Reredoss | Mr. MILLS. | |
| Horsley | Lieutenant T. ANGELL | |
| Crouch | Lieutenant W. S. GILBERT | |
| Stretcher | Serjeant BAUKE | |
| Vivian | Captain HOOD | |
| Colepepper (Senior Tutor of St. Barnabas) | Captain MILLS | |
| Oppenhardt (A German Jew) | Captain TOM TAYLOR | |
| Basewitz (A Swindler) | Ensign EDMUND YATES | |
| Dr. Vivian (A Country Vicar) | Private R. MORRISON | |
| Mr. Gray (A Country Attorney) | Mr. W. H. LONG | |
| Topham | Lieutenant GARNETT | |
| Murcott | Serjeant WALSHE | |
| Lady Valecrucis | Mrs. STIRLING | |
| The Hon. Mabel Valecrucis | Miss ELLEN TERRY | |
| Mary Ford | Miss KATE TERRY | |
| (By kind permission of A. Wigan, Esq., T.R. Saint James’) | ||
| Nanny Kettlewell | Mrs. STEPHENS | |
TO BE PRECEDED BY AN ORIGINAL COMEDIETTA, IN ONE ACT,
“IF THE CAP FITS,”
WRITTEN BY
Captain HARRINGTON, C.S.R.V., and Ensign EDMUND YATES,
C.S.R.V.
THE PERFORMANCES TO CONCLUDE WITH
“THE HAPPY MAN,”
a Farce,
By Private SAMUEL LOVER, of the London Irish Rifle Volunteers.
The Band of the Regiment will attend.