Melodrama : plots that thrilled (1954)

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LINE ILLUSTRATIONS Uncle Toms Cabin (Olympic, 1852) page 3 The Octoroon (Adelphi, 1861) : The Slave Market 7 The Poor of New York (New York, 1857) 9 Under the Gaslight (New York, 1867) 14 London by Night (Royal Strand, 1844) 15 Still Waters Run Deep (Olympic, 1855) 21 Captain Cuttle (New York, 1850) 25 The Lottery of Life (New York, 1867) 26 Camille, or, The Fate of a Coquette, American version of La Dame Aux Camelias (1856) 29 Blow for Blow (Holborn Theatre, 1868) 31 The Romance of a Poor Young Man (New York, 1859) 35 Ours (Prince of Wales's, 1866) : The Hut in the Crimea 39 Vidocq, The French Police Spy (Surrey Theatre, 1829) 45 The Dumb Man of Manchester (Astley's, 1837) 46 Susan Hopley, or The Vicissitudes of a Servant Girl (Victoria Theatre, 1841) 47 Plot and Passion (Olympic, 1853): Desmarets of the secret police denounces Madame de Fontanges to her lover in the presence of Fouche 57 Mary Warner (Haymarket, 1869) : Kate Bateman as the convict 65 It 's Never Too Late to Mend (Princess's, 1865) : The Australian Goldfields 71 The Two Orphans (Olympic, 1874) : Rignold and Neville setting a new standard for realism in stage fights 73 The Romany Rye (Princess's, 1882) : with Wilson Barrett as Jack Hearne and Mary Eastlake as Gertie Heckett 75 Youth (Drury Lane, 1881) 91 For Ever (Surrey Theatre, 1882) 93 The Bells ofHaslemere (Adelphi, 1887) 99 Jane Shore (Princess's, 1876) : Caroline Heath as the penitent 105 Nowadays (Princess's, 1889) 119 Hermann Vezin as Dan'l Druce, Blacksmith : " Hands off! Touch not the Lord's Gift." 127 Partners for Life (Globe, 1871) 131 Charles I (Lyceum, 1872) : Henry Irving and Isabel Bateman 143 Pleasure (Drury Lane, 1887) 156 A Life of Pleasure (Drury Lane, 1893) *57 Ignoring Frederick Melville 167 Walter Melville keeps his eye on the power of woman — muscular 169 A GirVs Cross Roads (Standard, also Terriss, Rotherhithe, 1903) 170 The Ugliest Woman on Earth (Terriss, Rotherhithe, 1904) 171 The Beggar-GirVs Wedding (Elephant and Castle, 1908) 173