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SCENE FROM “A SHEEP IN WOLF'S CLOTHING,” PERFORMED AT THE ADELPHI, MAY 11.

Our Engraving represents the crisis in the play of “A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing,” which was performed at the Adelphi Theatre, in the afternoon of last Saturday, in aid of the fund for the benefit of the family of the late Mr. O. H. Bennett, the eminent artist. The “situation” is this. The date of the play is the time when, Monmouth's rebellion having been suppressed, Colonel Kirke was sent into the west to inflict savage retribution. A friend of Monmouth's, Jasper Carew, who escaped from Sedgemoor, has been secreted in his own house, with the knowledge of his faithful and loving wife alone, and Colonel Kirke, supposing her to be a rich widow, has been courting her. To save her husband, the wife, Arne Carew, has pretended not only to be an enemy of the rebels, but to hate the memory of her husband, and has sent away their child for fear of her detecting the presence of her father. But, for the purpose of the drama, a situation is contrived in which the three indulge their affection, and are suddenly surprised by the deceived and vengeful Kirke. “So, a very pretty family group!” is his exclamation, and he proceeds to threats of execution, when Lord Churchill enters to supersede him and make all happy. The figures are those of the odious Kirke (Mr. Mark Lemon), of Jasper Carew (Mr. Tom Taylor), his wife (Miss Kate Terry), and the child (Florence Terry), and the closet behind is the place where Carew had been concealed.

The play was part of the entertainment for the excellent purpose we have mentioned. It was necessary to raise the fund on account of Mr. Bennett's premature death and the fragility of his health having precluded life assurance. His colleagues in the production of Punch determined upon making a strong effort on the occasion, and they arranged a most attractive afternoon. Mr. Arthur Sullivan, the most talented of our younger composers, had, in conjunction with Mr. Burnand, converted the favourite piece of “Box and Cox” into an operetta of the most ludicrous description, and this was the opening performance, Mr. Sullivan conducting, and the piece being played by Mr. Du Maurier, Mr. Quinten, and Mr. Arthur Blunt. It went with enormous éclat, and the performers were called before the curtain. The celebrated amateurs known as the Moray Minstrels (from their chiefly performing at Moray Lodge, the residence of Mr. Arthur Lewis) then gave a number of delicious part-songs and madrigals, executed in a style seldom heard in a theatre.