represented Cinderella's step-sisters dressing for the Ball, The two ladies were most charmingly got up. After their departure for the Ball, Cinderella's position became most affecting. The part of common drudge was most "effectively displayed, She was overpowered with grief, which was fortunately relieved by mouténtary forgetfulness, and the whole was so geapbienlly: and realistically portrayed that theaudieuce was visibly affected. In the second scene Cinderella was seated by the fire engaged in some of the menial household duties, when the Witch appeared in the kitchen, emerging through a trap door on the stage, and promised everything needful for the Ball to the poor and disconsolate Cinderella. Thereupon a large pumpkin walked on to the stage out of which walked the little Fairy, who presented rich silk garments and a large and beautiful bouquet of flowers to derella, who appeared in the third scone in fall evening dress prepared to depart for the Ball, The Witch, who was daly thanked for her kindness, told Cind that she must leave the ball at midnight, and at one knock of her wand on the fiver, a gilt sedan chair, beautifully draped with red and yellow sik and borne by two Cossacks dressed in Russian fancy costume, with the enchanting little Fairy mounted behind the chair, appeared ow the stage. As the chair was borne away to the Ball, the couple bowed most gracefully to' the audience, who received with joyous acclamotion the appearance of the greatly altered condition of poor Cinderella, In the fourth scene we were presented with the Court Bull at midnight. The entire party came on to the stage in couples and danced the first part of the Polonaise, followed by " Minuet, which was really most gracefully and charmingly executed. The dance was encored. Me' Hillier, of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, played the piano to the Minuet." The ladies were most exquisitely got up, in handsome dresses, with rouge, powdered hair, and all the rest of it as in the time of Louis XIV. In the middle of the dance, as the clock struck twelve, Cinderella fled from the Bull and Palace, this forming the fifth tableau, The gates of the Palace were effectively nted, and two of the Cossacks, on each side, kept watch and ward. Cinderella was puzzled which way to go, and this, like all the scenes in fact, was most realistic. The Prince rushed out of the Palace with hurried steps and to his great disappointment found the young lady had fled, but his eyes alighted on the slipper, which in the haste of flight had been dropped, and this he put to his heart and lips. The sixth scene consisted in the trying on of the glass slipper, which was one of
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