Mr. Allan Wilkie and his company opened their short season in Shanghai on Thursday before a house in which there was not a vacant seat; and if the play be a sombre one, the audience certainly had no cause to complain of the playing, and showed its appreciation accordingly.
Sir Arthur Pinero's most famous play is probably familiar to most theatre goers. The story, therefore, of this extraordinarily grim tragedy—from first line to last it is nothing else—need not be repeated. To see it a second time is to feel that its sueers depeatods and must always have depended up-jon its acting The character of Pau: la alone grips one in its pathos and mixture of good and bad. But Pau-of the camps, and proposed to the commander that he should join in an attack which was contemplated on the Arsenal There was evidently a scheme on foot for its capture in the interests other $2.50, and the third $3, the man who took the remainder of the proceeds having absconded.
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