Brough was magnificent. She had saturated herself with the traditional Russian character; the fierceness of the Tartar under the polish of the Russian. She had the audience in her hands from the very first; they accompanied her, excited and breathless, in her agony at the death of her lover in the first act, the soft wiles by which she successfully entraps Ipanoff, her outburst when he confesses that it was ho who killed Vladimir, her revulsion, amounting to actual horror, when she finds that her dead lover deserved his death, her new love for Ipanoff, and her despair, for which dosth is the only remedy, when she finds that she has been the cause of the death of all whom Ipanoff held dear. Not for many years has such a display of tragic intensity, never outstepping the modesty of nature, been seen on our boards; and when the house rose to the actress as the curtain fell, it was the homage to " really great artist of a great, representative, and brilliant audience.
lisa Temple had a delightful rife as the bright, clever, irresponsible young widow, Countess Olga Soukareff. It in her duty to furnish the relief to the tragedy in which Fedora is involved, and she did it to perfeetion, The delicacy of touch with which Miss Temple paints character of this kind is unsarpassable, and the audience recognised it in the frequent applause that followed her vivacious acting and happy speeches. Miss Thynne did all that_was required as Baroness Ockar, Miss Hardy was a most attractive young page, and Miss Harri ton looked well as Marka. A better performance all round," acting, dresses, scenery, and appointments, has never been given in Shanghai.
Fedora is to be repeated to-night for the last time, and the remaining five nights of a season which is nearing its close too Husband. Sowing the Wind, The Importance ichly are to be given up to An Idea!
of being Barnest, Dandy Dick, and A Pair of Spectades, in this order. Mr. Robinson, the musical director, lins got his orchestra into capital order," and the selections he plays every night are always applauded.
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