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Show Too Much Realism. One of tho most successful produo4 tlons at the "Old Vto" waa a play ' written without Dickens' permission i round "Oliver Twist" and banned by the lord chamberlain owing to the re? nllstlo way In which. BUI Slkes murs dered Nancy. His lordship's Jurlsdlo ticn did not extend to.what. were then, called the "minor theaters,' so tha play was i for many years a standing1 dish at the "VIo" and thrilled the gat; leryltea with fierce emotions, no mat; ter how many times they had seen It "Nancy waa always dragged round the stage by her hair," writes John Hol-Ungshaad, Hol-Ungshaad, "and after this effort, Bikes' always looked up defiantly at the gallery. gal-lery. He was always answered by one loud and fearfuL curse, yelled by the' whole mass like a Handel festival cho-, rus. When Bikes seemed to dash Nancy's brains out on the stage a thousand outraged voices, which sounded like ton thousand, filled tho theater and deafened tho audience bo-Mow." bo-Mow." London Chronicle |