Company gave their patrons another variety in the shape of a dramatized version of the Jate Mrs. Henry Wood's novel East Lynne. This piece is hardly what one would choose as a good representative drama; but regard must be had to the limited choice imposed upon travelling companies like the one in question by the difficulties of their position. East Lynne makes one of those aggravating plays which tempt the average observer to wish that the characters possessed a little common sense, a very few grains of which commodity would be sufficient to secure explanations that would have prevented Lady Isabel from making herself both ridiculeus and criminal. The company seemed much less at home in this kind of dramatic composition than in comic opera, and the performance, taken as a whole, lacked ani-motion, Miss Fanny Stanley did better than. might have been expected as the heroine; but Mr. F. Fletcher was a rather depressing Archibald Carlyle. Mr. H. Pyne, as Francis Lecison, certainly gave the most forcible rendering, of the part allotted to him, seen during the evening. Misses L. Schlerika and D. Inman did fairly well in subordinate parts.
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