The at the Lyceum on Thursday evening (16th) Miss Adair's sxe was not quite up to the average of the previous ones. Many of the audience expressed. themselves as being greatly disappointed that the serpentine dance, which was undoubtedly the feature of the other performances, was omitted from the programme.
The first number was a farce entitled Puir, in which Miss Adair and nderlip personated the victims of an ill-assorted marriage, which turned out to be all right in the end. Several passages were loudly applauded, but the farce might with advantage have been little shorter. This was followed by a song by Master Russell, entitled My is the Engineer," for which an encore was demanded. Master Russell possesses a very powerful soprano voice, but it is rather lacking in training and express sion. Madame Jardyne followed with two songs, The little lost child " and "Just tell them that you saw me," illustrated with lantern views. Both songs were very well given and were loudly applauded.
After a few minutes interval Miss Adair and Mr. Vanderlip appeared in what was described as a travesty sketch, the meaning of which was rather difficult to discover, though it was undeniably funny and elicited much laughter from the audience. The entertainment concluded with some excellent ly rendered solos on the viola d'amour" and an extremely clever ventriloquial performance by Mr. Hugh Emmett.
The Lyceum was crowded on Saturday evening by an appreciative audience to witness the performance by Miss Elsie Adair's troupe.
The first item on the programme was an amusing one-act comedy, entitled Confusion, which was loudly applauded. At the conclusion of this number a very graceful com~
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