"The Maid of the Mountains"
From the point of view of anyone who had geon the piece in London, "The Maid of the Mountains," as played at the Olympic Theatre on Monday suffered badly through having been treated very harshly with the blue pencil. Far too much of the pretty and funny play had been cut out. However, of the} f several things which made the play the great success it was, perhaps the music was the chief. Therefore, it gave the Bandman Company a great. chance to prove themselves in this line. They succeeded admirably, Miss Dora Dolaro, in the name part and Mr. Eric Masters, as Hoppo, in particular. Mr. Jack Crichton again starred as the comedy man, but there was so much of Laurie de Freece's original part cut out that he did not have anything like the opportunities he might have had. Still, it was in the main a good performance.
Nearty 600 members of the Chinese Labour Corps who served in France returned to Shanghai by the M. M. S. Andre Lebon on Tuesday morning.
Tue many friends of Miss Dorothy Craig, niece of Miss Elizabeth Craig, of Shanghai, will be interested to know that she was married) at St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, last week, to Mr. Dudley de Burgh Newcomb, of Hongkong.
Tue "Shanghai Nichi Nichi? ports the arrest, at Osaka, of the proprietor of a Japanese restaurant in Hongkew who is alleged to have.|been engaged for some months past in the morphia and opium traffic. Quantities of these drugs to the estimated value of Y.20,000.00 are said to have been smuggled into Shanghai since November last, the method generally adopted being the inclusion of two or three small packets in a bale of 100 hemp sacks.
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