On Satarday night " The Marriage of Kitty" was staged at the Lyceum before s crowded house. The play in question, adapted from the serelle" in which Mme. Réj great moees some seven years ago, and showing strong traces of its French origin, is an amusing trifle, ton impossible properly to be called a comedy and frequently verging on broad farce. To defeat the terms of the will, which has beea specially framed to prevent marriage with " certain Peravian widow (Miss Blanche Forsythe), Sir Reginald Belsize (Mr. Douglas Vigors) contracts nominal marriage with Kitty (Miss Lucy Beaumont); a divorce is to be obtained @ year or eighteen months after the marriage, and Sir Reginald will then be free to marry the widow. Of course he lives to discover that Kitty i the first woman in the world for him and Mme, de Semiano, the Peravian widow, the last, and Kitty's marriage ends in a blaze of triumph. That the play was well received, with abundant merriment, was probably due rather to ite intrinsic power to amuse than to the manner of its presentation, Apart from the John Travers of Mr, Henry Dallas, who gave a very fair picture of the conventional lawyer of light comedy, it must be confessed that the principal characters were not well supported. The acting showed ploaty of vigour, but no attempt to realize the manner in which people of the dosa involved in tory would aatorally behave. There was a complete absence of all finer ade, with a proportionate increase of mere commonness of the hoydenish order. Miss Joan Harcourt made sympathetic little French maid, although hor broken English could certainly lay claim to French descent, The conventional comic footman was adequately played by Mr. Spencer Geach,
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