pale The news that Mr. Melton Prior would come and talk about some of his campaigns way no doubt, a very considerable factor in collecting the large audience that greeted the popular Miss Adair at her farewell variety' show at the Lyceum on Saturday. There was a little delay in raising the cwtain, but after two overtures by Mr. Linton, Miss Adair, who was most cordially welcomed, came on wit: Mr. Vanderlip, and acted with great, spirit a pleasant little sketch called The Silent System, which quite delighted the house.
Mr. Vestibule was then down for a comic song, and he came on in character and got along very well for a little while, with the aid of Mr. Vinay at the piano. "Then something went wrong, and though the Gallery urged him on again, he went off. An exhibition of the Vitascope, which is still another name for it, followed. The pictures were rather small, but they were very good, and there was almost a total absence of vibration; in fact, this was a-very successful number. Then Miss Adsir came on and sang no less than four songs in her own inimitable style. Needless to say they were very much enjoyed. After an interval of about a quarter of an hour, Mr. Linton executed another overture, then Mr. Jollyboy sang tastefully a sentimental song, and then Mr. Melton Prior, the artist who in the past twenty-five years has made the readers of the Illustrated London Nets familiar with the features of some twenty-five campaigns in all parts of the world, came on the stage and bevan a very pleasant extempore chat, which lasted about haitan hour, and which his audience would willingly have had him continue till midnight. He told of the Ashanti campaign, his first, and how Lord Wolseley and the donkey helped him out of trouble. He explained how war-sketchers work in the field; how in Servia General Tchernaieff held his horse for him for half-an-hour; the fiery result of a harmless irtation with a fair Bulga he described how he outwitted a Turkish censor, who had for six weeks been impounding his sketches; and then he paid a high} tribute to the courage and conduct of Tommy Atkins in the Tirah campaign, taking for his text a sentence from out j Saturday's leading article, which.some one had read to him without reading him the context. His vindication of Tommy Atkins, which involved a condomination of some of his leaders, and of the interfering ''politicals," was excellently done and very heartily cheered. In concluding Mr. Prior expressed his admiration of Shanghai, and his sense of the welcome he had received here; and the evening closed witha dramatic sketch called The School of Acting, which served sufficiently well to show Miss Adair and Mr. Vanderlip in various character parts, with songs and dances.
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