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Show A lli-uiliiil 1st with lulliienco. Queen Elizabeth of lloiunania has written a play which she is ph'ased to describe as a tragedy, but which is really a piec.o of the most wildly and extra. a-gantly a-gantly sensational kind. It is entitled "Meister Manolly," and it is to he introduced intro-duced at the Vienna Court theatre. The piece is of the old transpontine order, with ghosts, murder:, a "wife walled up 1 alive, and other Ketisaiioual episodes, and it is full of preposterous situations, absurdly ab-surdly stilted dialogue nnd Houibastea Furiosi) declamation. Queen Elizabeth, when she was recently at Vienna, invited in-vited the company of the Court theatre to partake of sumptuous dejeuner at the Hotel Imperial, and the champagne j Howed in rivers at tWe meal. Her maj-1 esty read the play to her guests, who applauded it as a matter of course, and then sho went to see the emperor, and induced in-duced him to command that tlio piece should he produced at the Hofburg, where, as a rale; new plays are not readily accepted. London Truth. j |