Quered the Great Public? Tidings also comeįrom Washington that a similar success hasĬrowned the efforts of the author and dramatist of The Eternal City in this country. Has he not captured the greatest theatrical Of the critics are still sceptical, and refuse toīe won, but what cares Mr. Hall Caine, after the derision and abuse hurled upon the metropolitan production of The Christian. Majesty’s Theatre in London is a veritable Theatrical adaptation seems by all accounts to Hundred pages, may be a dull story, but its The Eternal City, dragging out its dreary “That’s a matter of taste, my child,” replied the old man “but I know it’s a d-d Tury, before they did away with Kings andīoundaries, and such-like relies of barbarism.”
’Tis a bitīack in the early part of the twentieth cen. My child,” replied Kaspari, “’tis a present from Athens for a good boy. “Papotis!” (grandpapa), cried little Petrokinos, "what is that you have in your pocket, so large and smooth and round?” He had just returned from Athens, after a one-day excursion. The hills above Megara, the fine old shepherd The Epilogue is finely hit off in this fashion: Shyly at her own wit, we are told, and flung “To me, whatever your real name, you will “Dotti is anĪlias.” "Never mind, dear,” cried Athena.
Leonidas,” he tells Athena of the mulberryĮyes, was his baptismal name. David Rossi becomes Deemster Dotti, whose motto is “Everything for everybody else!” “Daniel
Hall Caine’s latest novel, The Eternal City. Seaman’s Borrowed Plumes, just published, is the burlesque on Mr. "This is the tree that grew the Cane." Hall Caine, the author and dramatist of The Eternal City, and Beerbohm Tree, who has produced the play in London.
This may or may not have some bearing on the the kind of criticism to which, the columnist says earlier, Hall Caine had been subjected. However, the columnist goes on to report the triumph of the novel's theatrical adaptation, both in England and America, and, after some more theatre news, to talk amusingly about novel reviewing. Owen Seaman (1861-1936) was the editor of Punch from 1905-1932, but, having been taken on in 1894, was already responsible for much of its comic verse, and such spoofs as these. Michael Gibbons kindly provided us with this column from Harper's Weekly, which deals first with Owen Seaman's parody of The Eternal City.
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