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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:	*One of the Best*
Description:	One of the Best by Seymour Hicks and George Edwardes. Esther Coventry was played by Henrietta Watson, not Jessie Millward, from 30 Jan to 26 Feb 1896.
1st Performance:	Dec 21, 1895
Theatre:	Adelphi
Source:	The Illustrated London News, Mar 4, 1896, p. 243
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Review:	The Illustrated London News, Mar 4, 1896, p. 243

"ONE OF THE BEST," AT THE ADELPHI THEATRE.

Photographs by Frank Dickins, Sloane Street S.W.

"One of the Best" is fitly named. Produced on Dec. 21, Messrs. Seymour Hicks and George Edwardes' melodrama has run to crowded houses ever since and is likely to do so for a long time to come. The play is picturesque, for, with a keen instinct for effect, the authors decided on staging a Highland regiment, than which there is surely nothing more striking in the whole range of military uniform. They have also told a story, which, if un-English, has had the advantage of actuality across the Channel in the shape of the Dreyfus incident; and, at a time when the country palpitates with melodrama, it is not surprising that "One of the Best" should be a great success. It is somewhat curious that Mr. Terriss, the splendid hero of the piece, is the father-in-law of one of the authors, Mr. Hicks, while Mr. Edward Sass, who, as Sir Archibald M'Gregor, has to pronounce sentence on the young lieutenant, is the brother-in-law of the other author, Mr. George Edwardes. Both the authors, by the way, were originally intended for the army. The semi-sympathetic heroine, Esther Coventry, is represented in the accompanying photographs by that exceedingly clever actress, Miss Henrietta Watson, who undertook the part in Miss Jessie Millward's absence.

Dudley Keppel	Mr.	William Terriss.
Philip Ellsworth	Mr.	W. L. Abingdon.
Lieut.-General Coventry	Mr.	Charles Fulton.
Sir Archibald M'Gregor	Mr.	Edward Sass.
The Rev. Dr. Penrose	Mr.	Julian Cross.
M. Jules de Gruchy	Mr.	L. Delorme.
Private Jupp	Mr.	Harry Nicholls.
Sergeant Hennessey	Mr.	A. W. Fitzgerald.
Corporal Smythe	Mr.	Waller.
Private (Hon.) Montressor	Mr.	Richard Brennand.
Private Ginger	Mr.	Cole.
Private Snipe	Mr.	Webb Darleigh.
Private White	Mr.	Herrick.
Jason Jupp	Mr.	H. Athol Forde.
Esther Coventry	Miss	Millward.
Mary Penrose	Miss	Ethel Ostlere.
Kitty Spencer	Miss.	Vane Featherstone.
Mrs. Spencer	Miss.	Kate Kearney.
President	Mr.	Hubert Carter.

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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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