son a series of excerpts from past successes, fonts closing performance of the present sea-It was a good idea of the A.D.C. to give
for to have given a complete comedy would have been to challenge too audaciously comparison with the Brough Company. The only fault of the performance was that it was too long; most people get tired of @ performance that lasts three hours and a half on @ muggy night in a crowded theatre. An amusing innovation, appro-nate to a Variety Show and recalling the empire or the Alhambra, was the provision at the corners of the proscenium of a couple of standards in which after each "turn" the number of the next one was inserted by two stalwart members of the A.D.C. dressed in the gorgeous liveries of this ancient and honourable Club. To judge by the size of the audience, and by tle fact that it is 10 be repeated, with some rearrangements and excisions, on Monday week, there should be great improvements soon in the interior of the Lyceum.
"The performance began with the familiar overture by Donizetti to The Daughter of the Regiment, and the well-known melodies of which it is full could not but put everyone, even those for whom there was only standing-room, in a good humour. And here we may at once congratulate Mr. V. de Maire, the Musical Director, on the skill with which he handled his orchestra throughout, and the members of the Town Band who composed it on the facility with which they followed his unaccustomed beat. Then the curtain drew up on "Tue Borotar axp tHe Jupcr,"
'A Dramatic Episode, in one Act, F.C. Phitipe ando. E, Brooktield.
Mr. Justice Gyve Mr. Drannek. Parkhurst..... Mr. Wynne, Joe. Mr. G.'L. U. Potts, Mr. Wynne had only a small part in this but his rendering, like all he does, was absolutely true to life, Unfortunately, we cannot say as much for Mr. Drannek and Mr. Potts. There was a want of conviction in their acting. Charley's Aunt is more in the former's line than fr. Justice Gyve, and the latter's voice and bearing were not Mile End enough. The burglar is born, not made. Mr. Birdie followed with a monologue with songs, The Penny Reading," by Sutherland. This ited without permission.
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