Show MELODRAMA BRINGS THRILLS TO LONDON AU AUDIENCE 01 E NG E EBest Best Beat of Luck ReEstablishes ReEstablishes Re e lishes Reputation of Drury Lane Cable to Th The Telegram LONDON Oct 21 21 If lf Drurry Lane gave last autumn a miss In the pr of its usual melodrama Mr Arthur thur Collins has amply made up for forit forit forit it this year by providing a double thrill in Best of Luck The first comes in the second act And Mr Collins has gone one better than the cinema There is a midnight race across the Great North road toward Derby There is Miss In leather knickers and doublets on a motorcycle You figure the throbs and thrills of the start the flying telegraph posts the pause for petrol from the friendly blacksmith the dash for the Millers Miller's Gap now spann spanned d only by a a. plank through the fall of the bridge and al always always always al- al ways the fevered orchestra setting them a fearful pace Soon you are waiting by the very side of or tho the gap Here Here comes the lonely little motorcycle tentatively feeling its way way- across the broken arch to the plank Of Pi course there should have been heron only a double on the machine And so Mr Collins fondly Imagined But Miss In the absence of or Mr Collins got on the machine machine- on that eventful first night and crossed There was no mistake about the holding of the breath among those who knew for tor the plank Is far above the huge Drury Lane stage A moment later the great pursuing automobile had crashed to destruction After that you follow the hero and villain to the bottom of the sea In their respective submarines and after many hairbreadth scrapes by sea and land see the hero satisfactorily overcome overcome overcome over over- come the villain In mortal combat under under un un- un der the waves Best of Luck Is assuredly the most thrilling drama ever seen at old Drury Lane The reception was tremendous r Notwithstanding the hearty welcome welcome- given to It In the provinces The Light Blues has failed to make good at the Shaftesbury It will be played for the thelast thelast thelast last time soon Boon and Ye Gods which has to make way for Mr Matheson Lang will be transferred thither from the Strand S e eThen Then Mr Alfred Butt Butt will present AIn Mr Harold Brighouse's new comedy The Clock Goes Round at tt Ve t e Globe which means the disappearance of Peg o 0 My Heart for which another r rhome home could not be found at this time The Brighouse comedy had the benefit of a weeks week's trial trip somewhere on the soth coast where whereon on Its first performance it had a a. rather surprising experience Just ds as s the middle of the I third act was reached the lights In the I house horse were gradually red lowered until at length they reached the point of ex exI extinction extinctions ex- ex There was naturally some I confusion on the stage but eventually some candles were collected and by bythe bythe I the flickering light the action continued continued con con- to tos to a a. finish Mr Butt is is' also busy preparing the new revue which is to follow tollow a Bric Brac at the Palace F For r the making of Vanity Fair as the ff n- n new revue will willbe willbe willbe I be called has gathered around aroundhim him quite a galaxy of talented persons Mr Arthur is the author Mr Herman Hennan Finck is the composer Mr P P. P L. L Flers Is responsible for the themise scene en mise scene en-scene and Mr J. J A A. A E E. Malone Malone Malone Ma- Ma lone Is to superintendent the tion In the cast are Mlle Mile Regine Flory a fine tine dancer and und actress Miss Moya Moys Mannering the popular and dainty Peg o o 0 My Heart Miss Gwendolin Gwen- Gwen dolln dolin Brogden Gina Palerme Arthur Playfair Jan ai ara a Du Call Gallon Cation on the loquacious laddie on the ladder S r e Romance has been played for the four four hundredth time at the Lyric and next Friday Miss Doris DoriA Keane and her colleagues will wUl celebrate the anniversary anniversary anni annl- performance of that remarkable remarkable remark remark- able play of which the public seems never to weary With the production of ot Mir Mr irr Jubilee Drax at the Haymarket the first stage of the thee autumn theatrical season may maybe maybe maybe be said to reach Its close Of the most successful plays America America has contributed Her Husbands Husband's Wife Wife now being played at the New The Misleading 1 Lady Lay at the Playhouse and Potash and in m Society Society So So- at the Queens The first has I proved a very charming comedy comedy to which the producer has given a a. pleasantly pleasantly pleasantly pleas pleas- antly farcical complexion The second Is a a. blend of farce and melodrama and the last brings back to the West End stage those t two favorites Abe and 1 In new surroundings s. s |