| Title: | The Hop Pickers |
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| Description: | The Hop Pickers by Thomas Parry. |
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| 1st Performance: | Mar 12, 1849 |
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| Theatre: | Adelphi |
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| Source: | The Illustrated London News, Apr 14, 1849, p. 245 |
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| See Source: | Go to Source Images (8.7 MB) |
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| Review: | The Illustrated London News, Apr 14, 1849, p. 245 |
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ADELPHI THEATRE.
The continued success of "The Hop-Pickers," and the farce of "Who
Lives at No. 9?" rendered unnecessary the production of any Easter novelty; the
manager wisely resolving to let well alone. The only change is the reproduction
of the "Enchanted Isle," the raciness of which is as heartily relished as ever.
"The Hop-Pickers" is a genuine Adelphi drama, with many excellent situations
and incidents, very neatly put together; and its success is well merited by author,
actors, and those concerned in producing the piece.
We have engraved the closing scene of the first act. In the centre of the
picture, Vivian (Madame Celeste), has recognised in Hester Leyton (Miss Woolgar) her
long-lost sister; while Brian Callum (Mr. O. Smith), a returned convict, discovers in
Maurice Gavelling (Mr. H. Hughes) the proprietor of the hop-grounds, and guardian of
Hester, a former companion at the hulks, who, having escaped, has assumed respectability.
On the opposite side, Restless Wriggle (Mr. Wright),
who has joined the hop-picking party, is expressing his envy at the recognition, and wishing
he also could find a sister as affectionate. The other characters are the party of
hop-pickers, who are making merry on the occasion; some of the groupings, by the way, are
very picturesque. The scene, painted by Pitt and Johnstone, is remarkably real
and effective, reminding one of what appears but to
have been of late years admitted by travellers--that the hop-grounds of Kent exceed in
luxuriant beauty the boasted vineyards of "the sunny South."
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