On Saturday night the Willard Company provided " bill of fare which for quality and quantity was all that could be desired, 'The first part consisted of a concert, sup: ported by Miss Cissie Denver, Miss 'Alice 'St. John, Miss Vera Patey, Messrs. Fearn-ley, Hall, Wentworth and' Walshe, Mica Denver sang charmingly in "By Killarney's Lakes" and was of course loudly applauded. Miss Sr. Juhn and Mr. Walshe did well in "The Song that reached my Heart" and "Tell her I love her" respectively, while Mr. Hall was very funny in a song deseriptive of the woes of Villikins and his Dinah, Les Trois Chapeau, which followed, was truthfully described on che bill as a sereaming farcical comedy. A man, during the temporary absence of his wife, gets hold of seme one else's hat in mistake for his own, while, as it afterwards turns out, a third person hus unwittingly become concerned in the interchange of headgear, On this apparently frail basis the playwright builds e fearful wud wonderful situations, ing from the efforts of the owners of the three hats to tind their property. There are the usual misunderstandings consequent on the use of the possessive pronoun, and there are the complications with which every student of farcical comedy must be familiar. It would be dreary work tu read such a piece, but it is the kind which, more than avy other, the actor's art endows with life. -Les Tivis? Chapeanor Was admirably played on Saturday... The honours fell to Mr. Hall,. who, as a, wooden-legged and phenomenally plain. professor. of elocution and -ealigraphy,., Bosco. Blithers, caused roars.of Jaughter,. Mr. Willard did. very well as.the harassed husband. They well supported by. Messrs. Saxby, Ve and Wentworth. The female. parts, comparatively insignificant as they. were, were
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