Tax large audiences that assembled to see the Dallas and Musgrave troupe in The Harbour Lights thoroughly enjoyed the performances, and it is no light tusk for a travelling company to give an Adelphi melodrama on the stage of our Lyceum, even when they travel with such an extensive stock of scenery and appliances. The acting was all that could be desired, and was constantly applauded. Miss Madge Grey was most graceful, symp touching in the part of Dora Vane; 1 Miss Barbara Fenn''s acting in the difficalt part of Lena Nelson was very pathetic and realistic. As the scheming hi mother-inlaw Miss Any Porter was excelled and Miss Panny 8 Peyay Chi with her tow Four Dosater (Mi D. Mauro), kept the house in roars of laughter when she was on the stage. manliness and naturalness of Mr. Da as the hero, Lieut. Kingsley, R.N., were beyond praise; and we cumot but condole wich Mr. Musgrave for having to perform so realistically the part of the villain Nichols Morland. We have never had a company here to whom melodrama came s0 naturally as it does to this one.
The drama of The Silver King was undeclined by the Dallxs and Musgrave Company for their third selection fur representation at the Lyceum Theatre on Friday night. There was a fairly good audience, who were throughout deeply interested in the numerous scenes of the drama, which some years ago croated a good deal of sensation when first repr ented in London. Tt is a down Adelphi drama, full of situations sentiments that appeal to the gallery, and there was no doubt that the gallery wt the Lyceum fully appreciated the opportuni that were afforded them last night. Phe play is in 5 acts and 13 scenes, so that the shifts are not only numerous but troublesome, therefore it is not ty he wondered at that the sets were at times somewhat incongruous, but yet they did not destroy the interest in the dramatic story full of incident, pathos, and crime hat was gradually unfolded to the audience. The east was a large of and taxed the resources of the compa filled thro "ut thr Grey as his satfering' wife acted with much force effect, neither of them over did the many 4 ing incidents that they had to depict. They were very ably supt ported by the others in the lite cist that the five acts of the fervent a and the drama was repeated on Saturiay night, and drew a fall house, The Dallas-Musyrace troupe had a lane and very appreciative repetition of The Silva and will produe* to: time in Shanghai, Charles Reude's celebrated dram, It's Never Too Late to Mend. The piece fas been justly termed English classic, Written with a defi object, icy to alle the horrors the English convict system, it mot only accomplished that Ghjeet, but was the means of bringing the inhuman gaol governor and doctor to the har of justice. The great charm of the piceeis its absolute truth, The characters depicted are not creatures of fancy, but living, breathing men and women. Me. Dallas has had a lengthened experience of the piece under the Into Sir Augustus Harris, and on one occasion whilst playing at the Theatre Roy al, Birmingham, six miles from where the prison act mistaken, the piece was visited by Mr. William Brown, the warder whose evidence caused the commission to be sent from the Home Office and caused the arrest and conviction of the governor and doctor. We learn that Mr. Brown had the unique pleasure of seeing his counterpart the state in the person of "Evans," and after the performance expressed hiinselt most delighted with all the details in the Prison Scene, which he sai correct in every particular. It's Late to Mend abounds in comedy pathos, the an Australian abo a supreme contempt for the "yalier stone" and a arent desire to possess boxes of matches, fad 2,073 v2, and valued at over 'A sweet love story runs through the pivee, hosing the devotion of a trae English girl to her absent lover. It's Never Too Late to Mend is really one of the finest melodramas in the English language,
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