3-034-560 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Scott Centenary: scene from "Rob Roy", at the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, 1871. 'No more popular novel could be revived in a dramatic form for Scotland than "Rob Roy."...This "great national drama" has been excellently produced by Mr. Wyndham, who delivered an appropriate address by Lord Neaves on the evening in question. The torrent of real water adds to the beauty of a Highland scene; while Mr. Brunton's pictures of loch scenery and other localities haunted by Rob Roy also set the play off to great advantage. As the Scottish outlaw, Mr. J. B. Howard acted with a manly vigour which found a match in the Helen Macgregor of Mrs. Howard; and the Baillie Nicol Jarvie of Mr. Pillans was a performance of genuine humour, unspoilt by the exaggeration common with many representatives of the part. The Dougal creature of Mr. Lyons was also good; and the songs of Di Vernon and Francis Osbaldiston were sung sweetly enough by Miss Griselda Wess and Mr. Charles Heywood. To render the centenary representation of "Rob Roy" complete, there were real pipers, real sword-dancers, and a capital corps de ballet, who danced a series of Scotch dances with great spirit, under the leadership of Miss Gunniss'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.