The first performance of the pantomime of Cinderela was given on the 3rd of March and the last on the 29th of the same month, and during the whole period covered by these dates Shanghai has thought pantomime and talked pantomime, in the intervals of its attention to the remarkable performance—we are not quite re whether it will turn out to be a comedy, a tragedy, a melodrama, or a farce—that has been Spores in the North. It is too often case that the real authors of great achievements are as much neglected as Virgil was when he startled Rome with his couplet beginning Nocte plait totd; and in the present instance, while those who wore responsible in the public eye for the success of Cinderella have been covered with well-deserved praise, no one has thought of the Committee of the A.D.C. who, keeping modestly in the background, upon themselves the grave responsibility. of incurring the expense of putting on this splendid show, and who, especially the honorary treasurer, Mr. A. K. Craddock, and the honorary secretary, Mr. R. B. Allen, have had endless detail work on their hands, if they had not done which, the smoothness with which the whole performance has gone would have been impossible. The last representation, on nesday night, attracted a very good audience, notwithstanding the very unfavourable weather, and it was an audience that seemed to thoroughly enjoy the show from first to last.
Every section of the community, for the A.D.C. had to enlist a largo number of friends to supplement their own membership, was called upon to fill up the east, and the kindness and cheerful. ness with which the call was responded to, were unexampled. Nothing is more remarkable than the conscientiousness with which all concerned put off all other engagements to attend nine separate performances; and even on the ninth night, While there was a gap or two in the chorus, the ballets and the Forty Thieves" did not show single defection. The A.D.C. and all playgoing Shanghai will never forget their debt to Mile. Ondine, whose dancing was worthy of the Empire or the Alhambra, and whose general assistance in design it dresses and in looking after the ballets, was simply invaluable; to Miss Morton, whose Cinderella was a perfect piece of acting, as delicate and charming as a piece of Dresden China; to Mrs. Douglas Dick, who made. the most -enchanting Fairy Queen and to the sprightly and graceful Colum-
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