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34;<br />

Mrs Langtry again engaged Wingfield, and began prep rations<br />

for a spectacular production in the ''^tunn.<br />

Tho Princess's Theatre, which ! Trc Langtry took for a<br />

production far too grand to fit on the stare of the St. James's,<br />

h, d boon in the lianas of a syndicate since 18^7. Barrett,<br />

when h© left on an A f erican tour to -iay off his debts, had<br />

sub-let the theatre in 1886 to Charl-.s Hawtrey and, later<br />

Charles ,'ar.ior. Grace Hawthorne, an American actress, took<br />

it over in the naue of The Princess's Theatre Syndicate In<br />

July I.'. 1 -? and c^oyod until ;:oy 1300. In the season May 1888-<br />

IH y 1839 she had presented Barrett and his corcoany, ojid her<br />

last production had been Buchannn's Tlioodora (after Sardou)<br />

under the direction of ..H.Vernon, The theatre v;hich had<br />

*<br />

opened v/ith Booth's Homlet in 1B80, and had served for v.ilcon<br />

Barrett »s in 1884, had a stage similar in its dimensions to<br />

the Lyceum's: a proscenium opening thirty- five foot hi ;h and<br />

thirty v.'iue, and a depth frora curtain-line to I; C T : . rll of<br />

forty feet, six inclioc. The Lyccira str .: o was forty-one foot<br />

deep (v;it:i a ^.'.ocl: civin^ an addition: 1 depth of twenty-t'iroe<br />

ft.et), with a proccenium opening thirty-tv/o feet ton inches<br />

high c'jfiti t^.ir^y-cix feet ci:c inches v/ic^e . Tr.is stride was vvoILadapt,<br />

d to the processions anc"! elaborate cot^l.:.- - c clcvicod by<br />

iii. The Porr<br />

At ei.-Jit o'clock on 1° /ovc-r.br-r 1800 tae curt: in rose on tae<br />

Atriua of Gaeoar's houuo in Rome. 'I'he fo^rt ' scene ;f ohcJrcspeare's<br />

play, in which Qctnviuc and Lopidus di.^cuoc Ai.tjny'c<br />

miabclL-.viour, v;ac cubstitated for I.I. '2-ic tivont.;-^i:;ht linos<br />

omittee Troa the text included thor/e in v;li:.oli Caer..: r cxpi-'. ^GOS<br />

his o.i; ,i-a:-fc at /uitoviy'i; betrayal of flonr-Ji c'i nity ("...to r it/<br />

And izeep the turn of ti ^plin.- v:ith a c-ltvc") an

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