Robert MeCire Ttis no slight task to bring a company of some twenty persons up from Woosung, with all the necessary scenery, wardrobe, and properties, and play the same night a four act melodrama, with the knowledge that everything has' to be packed up and put on board the ender to leave for Woosung again at 7 o'clock the next morning. The announcement that the company would be uble quite unexpectedly to give a performance here was received with veneral delight, and short as the notice was, the Lyceum was crowded with an audience that enjoyed every moment of the performance, as their applause showed. "Secret Service" had such a long run in London that it is umecessary to give the plot in detail. Melodrama as it is, it preserves the classical unities of time, place, and action, the actual time consumed by the events in the play being three hours, the story, a most thrilling one, running on without @ break, and the scene being at Richmond, Virginia, when it was besieged by the North-eyn army during the war between the North and South.
All that has been said in praise of the company, as regards its leding members, and as a combination, was completely justified lust night, and it was evident that it would be fully adequate to the rendering of pieces of a much higher class Mr. Daniel Frawley mate a great impression, in the, part of the suppose Cap'ain Thorne. Cal, cool, and dignified, he was careful never to descend to the em-fe roof tradition; and justified his claim to loyment of the arts of the melodramatic be put on the same level with Miss Van Buren, a young actr.ss with a state pres ce, an admirable delivery, great dramati> ability. Se bud no-, i the part of Edi h, te opportunity that was given to Caroline (Miss Stew rt) to captivate the hearts of the "when-e, and we anxiously await te return of the eomjarly next spring, th y see her in roles more worth powers. Mrs. Gardner C-one and convincing as Mrs. Varsey, whi husband made a great success of the disagreeable part of Arrelsford, In fact, the whole play was admirably ¥etel and excellently. stage], the music, written for the piece by William Furst, rendered the tawa band, under the ditectio. Vale Frawley may Sure 4 the reception he met, and the hearty recalls at the fall of the curtain, the playgoers of Sh nghai will be only too well content to see his company here i i il to enjoy They wil doubttes time in Manila, whither they are bound.
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