Mr. de Wolf Hopper's new comic opera at the Comedy, is an extremely lively piece of work, perhaps not quite so good as BL Capitan, but quite good enough to banish Aull care for the time being, which is what we most need just now, The action takes place, for yo particular reason, in Russia, shut the peasant dresses are very pretty and the scenery everything that could be desired, Tommy Atkins in not forgotten, but it is amusing ut the singe The Good numbers in the oper), is s Grand Duke of all the Russias, a my j dest son it is as he quaintly i founded on a much older one by (sop, the amoral is: that we quarrel with mutton because quail; in these days Eshould say few people do, quail being reserved quite for the favoured few. Miss Nella Bergen, the puna dona of El, Capitan, is again well tered for—her card song is altogether delightful and will Cam sure be one of the pest-liked ditties in the opera.
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