'The announcement' of play readily served to fil ey the Lyceam on Monday night verdict upon the performance, as a whole, most be that it was very good. Excepting for certain curious delusions of bygone time—as for example that America is an undiscovered country from which beaatifal young Puritans! come to lecture English society 0 short-comings—""A Woman of No Importance" shows comparatively few marks of ego. Its epigrams, however well known, are extraordinarily fresh and its only weak point is that, like the "School for Scandal " it is really too brilliant, This feature also served to find out the weakest point of the artistes, whose location was not equal to the tack of bringing home to the audience a half of all the witty things they had to say. What remained, however, allowed a very fair proporable in gesture bat spoke far too low, particularly la the great speech of the a she narrates the story of Mr. Charles Vane was admirable Lord Illingworth; it was not his fault that in the last act he mus! degenerate altogether into the villein of melodrama, Miss Lillian Dondas as; Mrs. Allenby spoke up excellest'y and was appropriately artificial. Miss Blanche Forsythe as Lsdy Hunstanton was not always distinct, bat oa.the whole realized her pa Geach did really well io fbe ex unsympathetic part of the son, and Miss Helea Russell played the prim young America prettily bat spoke distinctly, A. special word of praise must be given for the admirable actiog of Mr. Harry Neville in a small bat most distinctive part. The other characters were adequately sustained and the ensemble was easy and agreeable.
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