Notwithstanding the intense heat, capital audience was gathered at the Lyceum on Friday night to hear the Lilliputians in H.M.S. Pinafore, and they were rewarded by a really excellent performance. It was throughout excellently played and sung and quite adequately put on the stage. It is unnecessary: to say how admirably the principal parts were taken by Masters Goulding and Stewart, and Misses Stewart, Norwood, Ford, and Connie and Ina Pollard, the' smaller parts being all well filled also; while the songs and dances introduced by Miss Annie Moore, Miss Violet Martin, and the fair singer of The Midshipmite brought down the house. The patriotic songs, and indeed all the songs, were most enthusiastically received, and the concluding tableau of Britannia, with Miss Annie Moore's singing of Rule, Britannia was a real triumph.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.