A very pleasing little fanetion took place on Saturday evening wb the members of the Committee of ti Amateur Dramatic Olub gave a farewell dioner at the Palace Hotel to Mr and Mrs, A. D. Brent, who are shortly leaving for Home. Mr. J. H. Teesdale and there were present H. P. Hay, Mr. and Mrs. Barrett, Portier and Messrs. A. M. Os aT. H.U Aldrid, Madame Portier sod Mre Aldridge were unfortunately enable to be resent. The Chairman in proposing the health of the guests of the referred to their long connexion with the C,, and the invaluable services they had rendered, and in particular the fact that no less than eight play had been performed by the ' lab within the last five years which bad never been staged by amateurs before. In many of these plays Mrs. Brent, and in all of then Mr. Brent hed taken beading evening to a clove being done, and the was equally lacking in entbusiseun. It is trae that gymnastic entertainments in all parts of the world usually draw few except those directly interested in the performers, oF old, gymnasts, but the attempt which has been made in Shanghai to stir an interest in' hinese physical training deserved to be crowned with success by the attendance of large numbers of Chinere at the theatre on Satarday, no less than by the accurate performance of certain exercises or avolations.—The young men who been carefully trained by Dr. M. J. Exner, and who have for three months undergone con tipaal exercise for the display on Satarday, must been keenly' Fa disappointed by the extremely eparse attendance. Bot if they felt that the atmosphere was chill they did not Each event was gone through with keenness and smartness. The work on the bars performed by ten young Chinese fally demonstrated the abilities that are! latent in the young men of the Empire who have hitherto considered it 1 disgrace to develop their bodies, The
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