He is attacked by the two lovers of the ladies, Lord Albert Clavering (Miss Bella Goodall) and Edgar (Miss Topsy Venn), and a good deal of broadest farce follows. “The author was cordially greeted upon his appearance before the curtain, and the latest Strand burlesque may be noted as an undoubted success.” The Illustrated London News, 24th August, 1872, although very justly doubting the propriety of the subject as a theme for travesty highly praised Edward Terry “as the Hibernian plagiarist with the broadest of brogues and the most ghastly of faces.” As Allan Raby he haunts the ruins of Raby Castle, Raby Hall, and the Peak of Snowdon, seeking to filch the notebooks of tourists, “from which he may gather materials for a three-volume novel which he has been engaged by a publisher to compose.”
On Monday, 27th September, 1909, at the Paragon Theatre was produced The Vampire, a “two-scene sketch, adapted by Mr. José G. Levy from the French of Mme. C. le Vylars and Pierre Souvestre. “It is a capitally written little piece conceived in the grand Guignol vein;” The Stage, 30th September, 1909. The first scene is Harry le Strang’s smoking-room. Harry has been infatuated with a demi-mondaine named Sonia, who shot herself in a fit of remorse. The despairing lover is in communication with a Hindoo spiritualist Seratsih, who has evoked the spirit of the dead woman, now become a vampire and preying upon Harry’s vitality and reason. An old friend, Jack Harlinger, in order as he thinks to save the situation persuades his own fiancée, Olga Kay, to personate the ghost of Sonia. The result is swift tragedy, for the maddened Harry le Strang shoots her dead destroying the vampire, whilst he himself falls at the revolver of Jack Harlinger. Harry le Strang was played by Charles Hanbury; Jack Harlinger, Lauderdale Maitland; Seratsih, Clinton Barrett; and Olga Kay, Janet Alexander. The piece was very well received.
The Vampire, a Tragedy in Five Acts, by St. John Dorset (the Rev. Hugo John Belfour), Second Edition, 1821,[60] does not appear to have been acted. It was dedicated to W. G. Macready, Esq., whose kindness the author acknowledges in most grateful terms. The story is Oriental, the same being laid in Alexandria, and it is a “moral” vampire that is shown by the poet. In his “advertisement” he quotes a passage
