There was a very large attendance on Friday evening at the Lyceum Theatre, and if the audience was not very enthusi-ostic it was probably owing to the chilliness of the -house, no efforts to warm it ever appearing to be quite successful. Three months had elapsed since the first perform of the season had been given, and the public was evidently in a play-going mood. Itis, perhaps, regrettable that the A. D. is not able to appear rather more frequently, Its entertainments are always well patronised, and every encouragement is given Ube amateurs to indulge the art for which many of them have ce much talent, 'The curtain rose with tolerable punetnality on the one-act comedietta of ' Dearest Mamma' This piece has, we believe,
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