Since I last wrote the most important theatrical production has been The Greek Slave at Daly's. Naturally everyone's first question mas, how does it compare with the 1a? Asa matter of fact, they are too totally different to compare at all—which is perhaps a good thing. The Geisha was very dear to me. I loved the "Gay Tom Tit" and the 'Amorous Gold Fish" and that very Interfering Parrot" and I am fain to confess there is little that is catchy in the Greek Slave, but at the same time it is far more beautiful as 'a play and the scenery might have come from Mr. Alma Tadema's studio so much is it in his style. The principals in the company are mainly the same as the cast of the Geisha but, of course, in their Grecian attire they look totally different. Miss Marie Tempest was charmingly made up as Maia, daughter of Heliodorus, and sang divinely. Letty Lind looked lovely astlris a Greek Stave, and her song A Frog lived in a Bond, O! will soon be well-known though I Hope it may escape the piano organ. Mr. Hayden Coffin as Diomed had some very taking songs, far the best being The Maid of my Heart which reminds one fore'bly of his former success Queen of my Heart. Mr. Huntley Wright was very funny as Heliodorus a Persian soothsayer. He was dressed in rather scanty white robes, which only reached his knees and made him look thinner than ever, a red wig and a long black feather boa—altogether disappearance was comic in the extreme and the feather boa stood him in nearly as good stead as the pigtail of old. His Excellency The Governor (by R. Marshall) which has succeeded Trclawwny of the Wells atthe Court is very smart and would I think be a most successful piece for amateurs. The scene of the story is the vestibule of GovernmentHouse in the Amandaland Islands. The Governor with his Private Secretary and Aide-de-Camp are at breakfast. Some yellow powder is discovered on the table which turns out to be the pollen of a particular kind of alec and whoever inhales it has an epidemic of falling in love. Naturally all three inhale it and unfortunately they all fall in love with the same girl, Ethel, daughter of the Right Hon Henry Carlton, Colonial Secretary, who has come over to the Islands on a tour of inspection frum London, accompanied by his daughter and a widowed sister, The main amusement of the piece lies in the three different kinds of love making adopted by the three men, that of the Private Secretary (Mr. Dion Boucicault) being quite the funniest. So used is he to official notes that he cannot even make love without them and in the midst of an impassioned outburst has to ask the lady if she will mind his pausing for a moment to consult them. Eventually when he finds his chances are nil he makes her a present of them in order that she may seo that he consulted the best authorities." Miss Irene Vanbrugh is most diverting as Stella, "A Variety Artiste," who likewise arrives by the same steamer as the Curltons. She calls at Government House with the intention of asking Sir Montague to patronise a performance she intends givin; on the Island. Finding in him a friend of former days she, to his intense dismay, insists on remaining as his guest. Mr. Carlton (who likewise inhales a little of the dust) cannot resist her charms, and to the great disgust of his sister (who has in the meantime been trying, though vainly, to bewitch the Governor) asks her to be his wife. The piece is full of up-to-date allusions and was received with the greatest enthusiasm. It was preceded b; a monologue by Cotsford Dick entitle Mrs. Rawdon's Rehearsal, in which Miss Lottie Venne showed how delighted the Society Lady of the present day is to have a chance of acting ''for charity" on a real stage with real actors and actresses, and how it does not at all matter how little there. is to say when the opportunity is given for wearing three lovely new French gowns JK
17th June.
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