Emily Montrose Mrs. Troy. Sarah Jane, maid ofallwork Mrs. Duan, Although drops of rain were falling enough to make the 4 wet—the Lyceum Theatre was quickly filled after the doors were opened on Tuesday evening, no seats whatever being reserved; 8% that the fumilier faces that onw is wont to see at these performances in the front seats and the boxes hid the epportuni'y of discovery what excellent positions for seeing and hearing are te be found in the back rows of the pit. Punctually at the hour named the town i, da under the diceetion of Comu der Vel 1 the overture te Goun Mirella which, like the other selections during the ing, was excellently played and much applauded, This was followed by a comic drama written by Mr. Buckstone some forty yours ago for Miss Fitzwilliam, Good Nothing, a little play in which comedy and pathos are inextricably mixed in the old tuelodramatic way; © one-part piece, the predecessor of the Gue-part comedies which are played round the country by th modern Minnie Palmers and Gracie Pi rela, and lovely and versatile of that type, Madame Reitrop's i tion of Nan, the Good-for-nothing, was admirable in every way, and she held the audience intent on her every word, even in the face of that conventional old device, the inexhaustible bonnet box in which everything that the actress wants to complete her toilet happens by a lucky chance to be found. Madame Reitrop played at gill, with equal skill and certainty, on the Jaraw. So Uncle, it must he ¢mfesced, is Nonru-Cuiva Dairy News, [with which it is so plentifully" spr ready out of and the Byron feannot save it from the charge of dull. accidentally tomy nti uy be of interest of feminine handwriting Me ch jan one: Sny,-—'The appended copy of " tengment
ness. The public for farcical comedies thuse readers who are as yet adays wants co} the mysteries of the mi will not be put aff with the punning obs fascinating yama therein Byron himself used to de-Huded te, which is now engrossing the er is ad tel te attention of the leading men and women this that of High} and learning throughout the eiviised world, Nev fight ayspears to be th Snot phyin nosing 10 upon the " the june Tiddli not to be wondered at that the result was various nay, stances, it is (ur, wx some authorities maintain, Ti winks). but we shall in all probability hardly more than a success Cestime. Tt was, learn ere long that it was known in this however, a thoroughly level performance, country in primeval times like Poker, Jin which if no one Chess, Ronlette (which is but a moditic merliverity, noone fell below it; and xn [tion of the a pass) shaking for Jexception has to be mule rinks, and other aueivnt forms of doing jdebutaute, Mes. Duam, whose your neighbour in the eye, was received with the heurtie se, The folie ving is the fra and wh bly recalled the ever *Dedrest Amy,—You've heard o popular Lottie Venne. In Mes, Dusm winks, haven'tyou? Did you eve the A.D.C. have discovered a veritable dlivwinks patty a prugreasiee Tiddliew sure, Madame Reitrop had no oppor- purty? Oh! itis ariel fun! You can't think! tunity to equal her success of half-anchor You yet lot of little tables to hold four fore in Nan; Mes. Tew, whom we were people, and then you wk " lat of penph ighted to see again on the bards idle-aged and "intellectual if po, Tong absence, had unfortunately a very a have lots of Tittle Emily. As te the counters of diferent clours and deal the kK did all that was 0 pairs—you know how as Paffin; Mr. Temple 0 that two people at one table was agreeably light as Peter Fletcher; play against the other two and exch side Mr. D. Munday was out of his element, has its own colour; and then everybuly did his best to make the has a large counter and tries to make the Jaudience forset the fact. as the over- little counters jump into a bux in the wid-worried nephew; but Mr. H. Merton quite dle of the table, and the side that gets all surpassed "ur expectations, based on what it's in wins, and then you go on to another he tas done previously, as Uncle Bootle. table, and one table isthe winning table, and {He was torta when you get to it and win you ger a prize rhed J and you can have several prizes and——oh rioter ye and metly In 1s. ever ssu Jong—two ai three hours, ain dey way that it is Jure/y? because you can go on playing _As is the rule with the A.D.C., both Tom said at first it was all bosh, but pieces were very well put on the stage, and when he found that you can keep one hand the whole performance did credit to the under the table he seemed to like it better, conscientious work of the stage mat er, even than da
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