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Show OLD SADLER'S WELLS THEATER. Famous Playhouse Haa Taken on New Lease of Life. Jinny a regretful paiaornph haa boon written latoty ovor tho anppoaod niMiroachli K dotuoililon of riadhT'a V'oIIh tloalor. Tlio to nlimolit, how-iot, how-iot, ki'omin lo hnvo boon wanted, for K.oll-r'B Wells tloalor, lirourlit up to I'ludorn roiiuli emonlH by an oxpendl-tnro oxpendl-tnro of K"vernl thou, ami', has just 1 o. n roop.-tosl. 'i'ho theater com-1001110,1 com-1001110,1 n a minlo hoimo na far back i.h livi, niol lor noire than n century tho pin, o .m 1,110 of tho chief reports of fii-lilon. royalty itKoif patronMna tho clialj '.,ilo Kiirlnj; dlrcovored by the own, r In tho iV, ciuhteonth ntid early nlneteoiith conturlon many fatnoiiK actors walked the boarils at Sa iler a Wolla. Tho Ci luialdis, father and son, appeared thoro; Itrahain, the fnmoiis tenor, annic there In hla youth: I'Muiuiid Kenn, Churlcs and Thomas Dlhdln and II0U011I were all connected vii!- tho I heal it; and In U2 came T. IV Cooko. n the original William la lilaoic Kr'd sung." in ! Ham-te Ham-te 'aolis resolved lo iiroducn all Hhnkoapcarc a plnya at Badlor'a Wells, and for many years SuakoHpoare held the atneo there. Thirty of tho playa woro actually produced, and occupied 4,nno iilchta; "llnmlot" run for 400, Vhen came a tnnn of closed doora, until In IK7H the Iiouno wns rohullt and opened by Mls llul, niun. It haa had many vlclnsltmU aline then, and Sadlor Wells Theate now aoonia to be in a fur ay to a frcah leano of life. |