just now there are several new pieces. I think I mentioned the White Heather and Miss Francis" of Yale and The Liars, which are still drawing large audiences at their various houses, but I went a few nights ago to see The Children of the King at the Court, which has been entirely re-decorated and made most smart. The piece is to my mind charming, though opinions vary about it very much. It is an old German fairy story of a wicked witch and a charming girl over whom she casts 9. spell—prince in disguise falls in love with her—though she is only a goose girl—but because of the spell she cannot fly with him as he wishes. A minstrel comes along and having a stronger will than the Prince he persuades the maiden to leave the place and seek her lover, which she does. The two meet, but being attired as beggars the; _are turned out of their kingdom an neatly die of starvation, only again the minstrel finds them and all ends happily. Miss Cissie Loftus is charming as the goose girl and Mr. Dion Boucicault makes a good minstrel. Mr. Martin Harvey makes a very dreamy-looking prince. Miss Hilda Spong, a clever Australian who was seen to such advantage in the Two Little Vagabonds, has but a small part in the inukeeper's daughter. Like all true artistes, however, she makes the most of it, and I hear that soon she will be seen again to more advantage.
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