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MR. CLEMENT SCOTT, in his most useful column of theatrical information
in the _Daily Telegraph_, told us last Friday, that the Princess's
Theatre is now "heated by a new process," which must mean the
exceptionally warm reception given every evening to Mrs. LANGTRY as
_Cleopatra_. In this favourable sense of the phrase, "She gets it hot
all round," and the public assists in "making it warm" for _her_,
in return for _her_ making it warm for _them_. The more than CLEMENT
SCOTT writes of "extra rows of stalls," and of "money being turned
away on account of the success of _Antony and Cleopatra_." Bravo! "O
rare for _Antony_!" and O most rare for Egypt's fairest daughter! Of
course when the money is "turned away," more money is admitted. Great
thing for a theatre when all the boxes are money-boxes, and the pit a
gold-mine. Those who are allowed to enter will not complain of being
"let in," unless they object to being "let in for a good thing."
With its ballets and splendid _mise-en-scene_, and its splendid
"Missis-_en-scene_," too, "There would seem no reason," continues the
generous SCOTT, "why _Antony and Cleopatra_ should not be regarded as
what is euphemistically (a deuce of a word this) known as a 'Christmas
Piece.
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