"Romance"
On Saturday night the Bandman company produced for the first time in the Far East "Romance," a comedy-drama, with fa setting of the earlier portion of the last century, and are to be congratulated not' only for the fact that there was a full house, stand. ing room only" being the sign displayed shortly after 9 pin., but also upon the merits of their presentation of the play, as well with regard to stage setting and cos tumes as to action by the prin cipal. It is a good story, well written and, by the Bandman Company, well played.
The cast included nearly all the members of the Company with the exception of Messrs. Carl Lawson and Phil Carlton, and all did well, Dut there can be no doubt that the honours of the evening fell decervedly to Miss Beryl Barra-less in course of time th fashion of dwelling houses gives lace to huge PY Det—Sgt. Yorke. In the cir. comparatively meively" small] 2 shot wound, deliberately inflicted smal blocks of buildings something after cumstances Det.-Sgt. Yorke did the style of the Avorkmen's well to shoot him. No blame is dwellings" at Home. though the *ttached. clough, who, as Mme, Cavallini, had a most trying part to sustain, occupying the stage for the greater part of the performance, an {those rendering of broken English as spoken by an Italian prima cost of such buildings might, happily, make them prohibitive.
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