3-028-592 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Christmas Pantomimes and Burlesques: scene from "Lord Bateman," at the Globe Theatre, 1870. London stage show. 'The Globe has passed into the hands of Miss Fanny Josephs...Mr. Byron is in the ascendant...the author appears before us...as the writer of the succeeding burlesque. This is called "Lord Bateman; or, The Proud Young Porter and the Fair Sophia." We are all familiar with the poem to which the production refers...Mr. Byron need not shrink from comparison. He has been particularly careful of dramatic proprieties, and his jocularities are of the finished and polished kind, having indeed an epigrammatic character. The part of Lord Bateman was filled by Miss Josephs herself, who looked the aristocrat to the life; and that of the honourable Seraphina de Snooks by Miss Hughes. The fair Sophia is humorously caricatured by Mr. J. Clarke, who sings "The Bulbul" in the wildest manner; and Miss Minnie Sidney personates the Proud Young Porter. The story of the hero's misfortunes and ultimate triumph is soon told. Imprisoned at Constantinople, his Lordship escapes by the contrivance of Sophia, and finds refuge on board a Turkish galley, from which he escapes in a boat, and the fair Sophia in a washing-tub'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.