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THE ADELPHI THEATRE CALENDAR
A Record of Dramatic Performances at a Leading Victorian Theatre
Formerly the Sans Pareil (1806-1819), later the Adelphi (1819-1900)

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Title:	*Lost in London*
Description:	Lost in London by Watts Phillips. Final scene: Job Armroyd (Henry Neville) confronts Featherstone, the owner of the Bleakmore Mine (Ashley). His wife was played by Adelaide Neilson.
1st Performance:	Mar 16, 1867
Theatre:	Adelphi
Source:	The Illustrated London News, Apr 6, 1867, p. 341
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Review:	The Illustrated London News, Apr 6, 1867, pp. 341-342

SCENE FROM "LOST IN LONDON."

As an original drama, Mr. Watts Phillips's new play, entitled as above, deserves some distinction. Whatever its faults, it is not derived from foreign sources and is intended to illustrate modern manners. The last scene, of which we present an illustration, is designed to read a social lesson and to bring into contrast the man of worth and the man of wealth. The latter, to use the words of the play, is only too ready "to poach on the poor man's manor," and is yet surprised if he be threatened with the poacher's punishment. The poor miner, who has recovered his repentant wife, stands front to front with the mine owner and demands the redress of a fair duel with his wronger. But the latter pleads his respectability and finally declines to meet the humble man on fair terms. The injustice of this doctrine he is at last made to see and then acknowledges his fault. Such is the scene presented, which, in the acting is effective, and brings down the curtain with applause on what the writer of the play designed to represent as a moral triumph.

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Originally published by Greenwood Press as The Sans Pareil Theatre 1806-1819, Adelphi Theatre 1819-1850: An Index to Authors, Titles, Performers, 1988, and The Adelphi Theatre 1850-1900: An Index to Authors, Titles, Performers and Management, 1992.

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