Ix connexion with the Chinese Prison scandal, the officials who were charged with having received bribes for releasing certain prisoners have appealed to the Supreme Court at Peking against the sentences passed on them by the Soochow High Court of Justice, whereby they were ordered imprisoned for three years. The local District Court sentenced them to four years imprisonment each, but this was reduced when they appealed to the Soochow High Court. donna, og Well as the mannerisms, were h excellent. The ° display of coyness, when meeting the Rev. Thomas. Armstrong during the soiree in the first act, and her show of nervous irritability on her return to her rooms after a farewell performance in New York, were especially true to stage life.
In comparison with the work of Miss Barraclough, the rest of the Company had bud minor parts to fill, principal of which were those of Thomas Armstrong (Mr. Clive Woods) and Cornelius van Tuy (Mr. Perey Baverstock), both of whom did well, but lacked intense ity, and suffered by contrast.
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