Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, June 25, 1892 by Various
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at night, SARAH regularly "knocked them" in the Shaftesbury Avenue.
No one interested in dramatic art should miss seeing SARAH, at all events, in _La Dame aux Camélias_. * * * * * PARTICULAR AND GENERAL RELATIONSHIP.--Mr. GEORGE CURZON, as the _Saturday Review_ remarks in its notice of _Curzon's Persia_, "is not the first of his family who has written a good book of Eastern travel." The author, then, is not a first, but a second, or third CURZON, and this particular work of authorship creates a new kinship, as his travels are, now, related to the public. * * * * * OPERATIC NOTES. [Illustration: Isolde, seated on a sham rock, awaiting the coming of her lover. Alas! all ends unharpily!] _Wednesday._--The Irish Question, heard for the first time operatically, put by The O'WAGNER in his music-story of "_Tristan und Isolde_." The story is decidedly a _triste 'un and is old_ no doubt of it. Frau SUCHER first rate as the Irish Princess _Isolde_. Herr ALVARY plays _Her Tristan_; good, but not great. All vary well. As _Kurwenal_, Herr KNAPP, in spite of his name, kept everyone awake, and did his very best; in fact, "went Knapp." Fräulein RALPH was charming as _Braugäne_, and her manner of inducing the Princess of the Most Distressful Country to take to the |
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