Pollard's Lilliputians wore sweleomed back to Shanghai on Monday night audience which packed the Lyceum from floor to ceiling and received the well. Worn but. ever acceptable numbers of "The Belle of Now York" as though they were the newest thing out of the West. It was surprising indeed to discover how much freshness the little people were able to infuse into songs and business alike; the piece rarely "gone" with greater spirit than it did at this representation, Since it was here last season the company has undergone some important changes, but several who were prime favourites here before were recognised with pleasure and appreciation as. they took up their former reles. Little Mise Daphne Pollard has grown,—that couldn't be helped—but she is still as whimsically old-fashioned in her ways, and her "savoir faire" is still as. strikingly amusing as it is clever. Miss Myrle, who was the "dot" of the party in the Spring has developed into a charming little maid, who fills the role of Mamie with singular charm. Jack Pollard as Ichabod Bronson, Willie Thomas as the Polite Lunatic, and Teddie Macnamara, who now plays Blinky Bill, were some of the others we wore glad te see back with ripened experience, Of the Rewcomers the Misses Eva and Olive Moore are decided acquisitions. Miss Eva Moore was the "Belle"; her voice was evidently not at its best last night indeed several of the children were handicapped by colds—but she was as sweet and demure as the most exacting could require. Of Miss Olive Movro it is high praise to say that she fills adequate.
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