Several scenes from Catherine written by Henri Lavedan (1859 – 1940), and produced by Charles Frohman, and directed by Joseph Humphreys, at the Garrick Theatre, New York, on October 24, 1899.

   Several scenes from Catherine written by the French dramatist Henri Lavedan (1859 – 1940), and produced by Charles Frohman, and directed by Joseph Humphreys, at the Garrick Theatre, New York, on October 24, 1899.

   Catherine :  Various productions (1899) starring Annie Russell, Frank Worthing, Francis Sedgwick, Elsie de Wolfe, Ethel Barrymore, Marion Kirk, Edgar Becman, Paul Cerny, etc. 

   The Annie Russel Company commemorated the 75th performance of  in the production of Catherine, Monday December 19th, 1898, at the Garrick Theatre.

1898 Miss Violet Vanbrugh As Boroness Roydon, Catherine Garrick, New York

The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, January 14th, 1899, "Catherine" at the Garrick Theatre, New York. 

Act III. (Miss Elsie de Wolfe and Mr. Frank Worthing).- "Think what I have endured."

Frank Worthing and Sarah Cowell Le Moyne in Catherine

Some scenes from A Night Out (Farce), Mr. Charles Klein's adaptation of L'Hotel Libre-Echange, performed at the Criterion Theatre, London, in 1907.

   Some scenes from A Night Out (Farce), Mr. Charles Klein's adaptation of L'Hotel Libre-Echange, performed at the Criterion Theatre, London, in  1907.

   This farce, which, when produced in 1896 at the Vaudeville, ran for five hundred nights, is again provoking laughter in its new home at the Criterion Theatre.

Miss Marguerite Leslie, now playing, at the Criterion Theatre, the part of Marcelle in A Night Out, Mr. Charles Klein's adaptation of L'Hotel Libre-Echange.

"The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, August 17th, 1907," showing the Following 4 Photographs for "The Revival of the Farce, "A Night Out," at the Criterion Theatre."

   a- The Girls :- "Look, look, at the lights ;  how blue the flame is!"- Miss Margurite leslie as Paillard's wife, Mr. George Giddens as Joseph Pinglet, Mr. George Desmond, Miss Vine, &c.

  b- Paillard's nephew, Maxime  (Mr. George Desmond), to Miss Frances Vine (as the servant Victorine)  : "Go on!  I like that!"

  c- Mr. Giddens as Pinglet :-"I love you!  I adore you!"

  d- Joseph Pinglet (Mr. George Giddens) :- "Great Heavens!  Mathieu and his four daughters!"

Two scenes from The Duel Bill performed at the Criterion Theatre, London, in 1905.

 Two scenes from The Duel Bill performed at the Criterion Theatre, London, in 1905.

The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, August 19th, 1905, "Duel Bill" at the Criterion Theatre.

    1- "Lucky Miss Dean."

         a- Acacia  (Miss Ethel Irving) :  "But, Fred, it isn't true."

             Fred  (Mr. Marsh Allen) : "Anybody could have written it if it had been." (Quarter Page).

         b- Fred :  "Two cheques and we can't use either of them." (Quarter Page).

     2-  " Time is Money."

         a- Susan  (Miss Mona Harrison) :  "Here are your antimacassars, madam." (Half Page).

Two scenes from Wheels within Wheels, written by R. C. Carton (c.1853-1928), and produced at the Criterion Theatre, London, in 1901.

Two scenes from Wheels within Wheels, written by the English actor and playwright R. C. Carton (c.1853-1928), and produced at the Criterion Theatre, London, in 1901.

The Sketch, June 5th, 1901, "Wheels withing Wheels," at the Criterion Theatre.

   a- Act II. : Drawing-Room in Sir Philip Curtoys' House in Mayfair.  Lady Curstoy's bids her self-absorbed Husband a Final Farewell before running away with another man.

   b- Act III. : Room at the "Horn of Plenty" Inn, Beckington.  Jim Blagden, the unscrupulous Man-About-Town, rounds on Lord Eric, who has cut him out with Mrs. Bulmer.

Some scenes from What Pamela Wanted, performed at the Criterion Theatre, London, from 22 April to 16 June, 1905, runnnig for 56 performances.

Some scenes from What Pamela Wanted, performed at the Criterion Theatre, London, from 22 April to 16 June, 1905, runnnig for 56 performances.

The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, May 6th, 1905, "What Pamela Wanted," at the Criterion Theatre.

1- The courtship of Pamela and Raymond (Miss Ethel Irving and Mr. Leslie Faber). They have never met before, but in ten minutes have agreed to marry and afterwards to do exactly as he or she pleases.

2- But being married, they discover that liberty of action is only thoroughly satisfactory to the person liberated, and consequently soon become madly-though causelessly-jelous of each other.

3- The separation of Pamela and Raymond, when the former declares a pretended passion for the amorous but unheroic "Puff Puff" (Mr. Lennox Pawle), whom she embraces before her husband.

4- The father of Raymond (Mr. Frank Cooper), who has flirted with the mother of Pamela (Miss Lottie Venne) throughout the play, proposes to her in the last act.

5- Their children soon after patch up their quarrel on discovering that they are to fond of each other to keep apart. In future liberty of action must be subject to the consent of both.

Ethel Irving and Leslie Faber in What Pamela Wanted. 

Miss Ethel Irving, as Pamela during the period of her efforts at husband management in "What Pamela Wanted," at the Criterion Theatre. 1905.

ETHEL IRVING (1869–1963) in What Pamela Wanted at the Criterion,  1905

A scene from The Prince Chap, written by Edward Peple (1867-1924), and produced at Weber and Fields' Broadway Music Hall, New York, from September 4 to December 30, 1905, runnning for 136 performances.

A scene from The Prince Chap, written by the American playwright Edward Peple (1867-1924),  and produced at Weber and Fields' Broadway Music Hall, New York, from September 4 to December 30, 1905, runnning for 136 performances.

Some scenes from The Prince Chap, written by Edward Peple (1867-1924), and produced at the Criterion Theatre, London, in 1906.

Some scenes from The Prince Chap, written by the American playwright Edward Peple (1867-1924), and produced at the Criterion Theatre, London, in 1906.

Edward Henry Peple (August 10, 1869 – July 28, 1924) was an American playwright known for his comedies and farces. He was perhaps best remembered for the plays The Prince Chap, The Littlest Rebel and A Pair of Sixes.

The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, July 21st, 1906, "The Prince Chap," by Edward Peple, at the Criterion Theatre.

   a- Miss Lilias Waldegrave, as Alice Travers, and Mr. H. Roberts, as William Peyton.

   b- Miss Hilda Trevelyan, as Phoebe Puckers.

   c- Mr. H. R. Roberts, as William Peyton, and Betty Green, as Claudia, in Act I.

   d- Miss Janet Alexander, as Claudia, in Act III.

1906 Antoine Criterion Theatre Prince Chap Le Passe