The farce of Hooker and Snooker

Tallis’s Dramatic Magazine and General Theatrical and Musical Review, November 1850, P. 218

On Easter Monday the theatre reopened with a new drama, written conjunctively by Mr. Morris Barnett and Mr. Angus B. Reach, and bearing the title of The Czarina; or, Ivan the Armourer. It is exceedingly effective in its construction, and the language is well and forcibly written. The principal characters are well represented by Messrs. Creswick, Shepherd, and Mead; Mrs. Rignold, and Miss Fielding, a young lady new to these boards. The farce of Hooker and Snooker followed, and the performances concluded with the pantomime of Harlequin Sir John Falstaff, with new comic scenes and other alterations. The entertainments did not terminate until past one in the morning; this was two hours too late; few things will tend more materially to prevent people from attending the theatre with regularity, than this unnecessary protraction of the performances.