LYCEUM, The Lyceum was fairly well filled on Saturday evening, when Miss Elsie Adair assisted by some of our local amateurs, presented a well arranged programme. The performance opened with a one-act comedy, entitled The Decision of the Court, in which a young American wife sues for and obtains a divorce from her aristocratic English husband, hut the pair meeting, the effects of old ties and associations are too strong and a happy reconciliation effected. Miss Adair, as Kitty Stanyhurst, the young and capricious wife, was as charming as ever, and acted the part to the life. Mr. Reginald Bevant, as Algernon Stanyhurst, was excellent, and his rendering of the part, which could easily have descended to the ridiculous, showed the effect of careful study: The part of James, a man-servant, was well sustained by Mr. Vestibule. The next item wasa very well rendered solo, "Star of my soul," by Mr? J. Mann, whic was followed bya banjo solo by Mr. de Basa-Siise Adair was rapturously encored for iti, who received an enthusiastic encore. her songs, and after the interval a comedy-sketch, entitled A Pair of Lunatics, was presented, the characters being well represented by Miss Adair and Mr. J. Mann. Another banjo solo by Mr. de Basayoi followed, the next item being a comic song by Mr. Vestibule, who was excruciatingly funny, his loci! hits being greatly appreciated by the audience The performance ended with the serpentine dance by Miss Adair, which was enthusiastically applauded. Wo have on several previous ocean sions called attention to the defective arrangements for warming the theatre, but on Saturday night they seemed worse than ever. The building was more like a re-friger star than anything else, and it speaks: well for the entertainers that they were able to keep the audience in a good humour, in spite of the discomfort, throughout the evening.
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