Some months ago we took a re solution, arid gave natica of that the "North-China Dal Nows" should give up the trad tional habit of heaping indi criminate praise on every A.D.C. production good and bad alike, and that where it thought criticism was needed, criticism it would, to the best of its ability, give. We mover expected this course to be popular and were therefore not at all surprised at an advertisement: in the "Shanghai Mercury" on Saturday, quoting a string of eulogies from all the other Shanghai papers which, as Kipling puts it, appear to have "dredged the die tionary for adjectives," and some sentences in quite a different style from the ''North-China y News," and urging the public to "come and decide for yourselves." (Which of course they will do: so far as that goes our criticism does the "Three Twins" no harm). The quotation from our notice, not fairly, omits several lines which gave full credit for the care and thought expended, for good chorus work and general success of scenic effect. But det that pass. What we implied and what we have no hesitation in saying openly is that the "Three Twins" is a very poor play, not to be compared with numbers of musical comedies that might have been chosen and "utterly unworthy of all the trouble
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