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The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer
Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia
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In London, audiences largely approve of the political elements in Dion Boucicault's remodeled play 'The O'Dowd' at the Adelphi Theater, despite critics' objections to scenes depicting Irish poverty and calls for freedom and peasant proprietorship.
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LONDON, October 23.—The cries of 'no politics' which rose during the presentation of Mr. Boucicault's remodeled drama, 'The O'Dowd,' at the Adelphi Theater on Thursday, were disapproved by a majority of the audience. Indeed, since the first night the spectators have given constant and sympathetic applause to the dramatist's intentions. The political sentiments are neither unreasonable nor treasonable. Offense is taken by the critics chiefly at the hustings scene in the County Galway, in which the Liberal candidate, The O'Dowd's son, referring to his opponent's assertion that the overpopulation of Ireland is the cause of her poverty and misery says:
'A few years ago Ireland had a population of 8,000,000; now she has only 5,000,000. Let us follow the other 3,000,000 across the ocean, where the once thriftless people have become prosperous citizens and the backbone of a republic.'
'What is the reason?' is the demand.
'Freedom,' answered the candidate; then calls Ireland the 'Cinderella of the Isles,' and closes with the lines from Goldsmith's 'Deserted Village' as applied to the present wretched condition of Ireland, which Mr. Boucicault attributes to absenteeism and want of peasant proprietorship.
The critics abuse Mr. Boucicault indignantly for bringing politics into the drama, but the piece is likely to run.
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London
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October 23
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the play receives sympathetic applause from audiences and is likely to run despite critics' objections.
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During the presentation of Mr. Boucicault's remodeled drama 'The O'Dowd' at the Adelphi Theater on Thursday, cries of 'no politics' were disapproved by most of the audience, who have since given constant applause. Critics object to the political sentiments, especially a hustings scene in County Galway where the Liberal candidate discusses Ireland's population decline, emigration to America, freedom, absenteeism, and lack of peasant proprietorship, quoting Goldsmith.