The Weird Writers hand in hand
Posters stick throughout the land.
Us they'll write about, about!
Three to one, it will be fine!
Writers three we thus combine!
Piece! The curtain's up!
[They vanish.
And the melodrama,—showing how a match was broken off at a Polo gathering, and how many times in one evening Mr. Henry Neville can take off his hat in a wonderful variety of courteous ways, and how he gets taken off himself by a Matabelian shot; showing, too, how funny Mr. Giddens and Mr. Lionel Rignold can be, and how admirably Miss Fanny Brough behaves as an eccentric lady of fashion in exceptionally trying circumstances; how good as a villain Charles Dalton is; how strikingly Druriolanus has managed stage effects, and how admirably his auxiliaries have done their work,—the melodrama, containing all this and very much more, achieves a distinct success.
Poor Mrs. Langtry! "What all my pretty chicks at one fell swoop!" "The pretty chicks" would be represented by "a pretty cheque." Lots more where they came from, and their fair owner may yet sing about them triumphantly to the tune of "Lillie-bulero," or any other that takes her fancy if she objects to the original air as being out of date. Why not a new version of "Ti-a-ra Boom-de-ay"?