The Neutral.
Humiliation of Jones, who hitherto has been accustomed to drop off unaided.
HINTS TO MANAGERS.
A new and very popular addition to the comic opera, Tina, at the Adelphi, is a stage representation of "Eve," the writer of "The Letters of Eve" in The Tatler, together with her retinue and her dog.
Here we see Journalism and the Drama more than ever mutually dependent, and the developments of the idea might be numberless. Lord Times, in A Kiss for Cinderella, already illustrates one of them; but why not a complete play, with favourite newspaper contributors as the dramatis personæ? or a revue, to be called, say, The Tenth Muse, or Hullo, Inky!
Or, if not a whole play or revue, a scene could be arranged in which the great scribes processed past. One group might consist of Carmelite Friars, with "Quex" and "The Rambler," each with a luncheon host on one arm and a musical-comedy actress on the other; "An Englishman," with his scourge of knotted cords, on his eternal but honourable quest for a malefactor; and "Robin Goodfellow," still, in spite of war and official requests for economy, pointing to the glories of the race-course and pathetically endeavouring to find winners. These would make an impressive company—with a good song and dance to finish up with.
The Referee's contribution would obviously be too easy; it would simply be like a revival of King Arthur. The audience, however, would be in luck when "Dagonet" got really warmed up to tell yet once more the thrilling story of how he met Henry Pettitt in the brave days of old.