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Miss Christine Silver's impersonation of Doorsteps, in the little play of that name which is included in the programme at the Grand Theatre, Hanley, this week, is one of the cleverest and most delightful pieces of acting seen in Henley for some time, and deserves careful attention and the most cordial appreciation. * Doorsteps holds a front place amongst musio-hall playlets. and distinctly raises the tone of this section of music- hall entertainment. A gifted actress disguises herself as a starving cockney gutter and thief, in order to prove 10 a dramatic author that she is capable of acting in his new play. and the audience is quite as much astonished as the author in the play when it is discovered how dainty a lady nas been enacting the part. Miss Christine Silver is ably supported by Mr. E. H. Brooke (an honorable theatrical name as the author in the play, and by Miss Elspeth Dudgeon as the author's Scotch housckeeper. Miss Elspeth Dudgeon, whose natural tongue is that of the cast of Scotland, is well known in Glasgow in repertoire, and the realiem with which she presents the elderly and somewhat helpless Scotch housekeeper is extremely artistic. Altogether, Doorsteps " is a playlet to see and to study, and it belps to make the Grand programme this week unusually brilliant and enjoyable.
Article from 09 Feb 1916Evening Sentinel(Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)
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