"The Geisha" which was produced last night at the Lyceum by Heary Dallas and his company inevitably recalled, incon' eats comparisons are, the representations of it sivan last year, and it was impossible hot to feel what the performance has lest by the absence of Miss de Wa) Miss Norton, and Mr. Hugh Metcalte, and the death of Mr. Ferrell: Miss Curtis and Miss Clark did their best as O Mimost San and Molly Seamore respectively, and looked, acted, and sang very much better than at their previous appearances; Mr. Kinght could not but be good as Lieut. Fair. fax, but it is hardly his line; and M Munro is not up to the former representative of Marquis Imari. The piece was la put on. however, and was undoubledly immensely enjoyed by the lance audience assembled. Miss Curtis gave ler songs very nicely, including "The Amorous Goldtish," "A Geisha's Lift," "The Jewel Of Asis," and the Kissing Duet with Mr. Knight, and was encored in all of them, Miss Clark sang very prettily, more than equalling her success as Susan on Saturday, in "Chen Kina," "The Monkey of the victorious wreaths with which the brows of the winners ate crowned. Filling the expanse of the floor were small table, at which the members of the Club and their friends, all in orthodox. evening iment, the white flannels of activity dix:
carded, sat well provided with tobaces and dark brown beer. At the centre table in front of the stave sut_the Chairman and Captain of the Club, Mr. B, C. Pearce, with the other m inbers of the Com?
mittee, and afew old strokes and neriti "'benchers of ths gallant eight-oar," as pleased to join' inn n aquatic convivium—though it was by no means a water party—as the youngest griffin, Between the chairman's table and the stage was another table covered with silver ware, cups and goblets ud small, a ram's horn curiously aunted, and other trophies, for the dig tribution of the prizes won at the last gramme. regalia was a part of the evening's bron Forthere wasa programme, most attistie, spies of which were freely distributed to the utter confusion "f the precise, for except in the case of the first number not the faintest attempt was it. FI was not. for trammels of any kind. The ced start all right, entertainment did. opened Trio for Piano and Violins by Mess C. Keeaig, E. Bull and H. Buehsing, and thei g would have done honour to. the most classical eoacert that the Pi harmonic Society itself could achieve. Then the Chairman noticed, as the throo performers were disappearing from. the Stagg, that the same three performers were down to open the second part of the concert with another trio.) Hapys thought: let's get it over now," he and it was so." Thenceforward the inde: fatigable secretary, Mr. E. 'T. Byrne, threw the ordered sequence of events ta. the dogs, and anoth r happy thought came into the Chairman's head. "There is nothing much more: tedious," he said, "than a°set coutinwns distribution of Prizes; let us scatter it all over the evening; "and Mr. Winterired came on,
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