Two mighty Sikhs, vainly endeavouring mot to lose any of thei dignity by smiling, two tremendous excited Chinese constables, in-bulging in a regular orgy of stick-swinging, coolie-walloping and fearsome yelling, and a lone European sergeant of police, amused one minute, very angry the next, yeate day endeavoured to enforce the new trame regulation that, for a fixed period before and after noon, no vehicles shall make a right-handed turn at the Szechuen Road and hho hus been three months under a British non-commissioned officer, with the awkward squad, is ubsolutely certain which right. liliand and which the left: add to this the fact that it is highly improbable more than about one chauffeur in fifty—and certainly no riesha coolie—had read or understood the rexulntion, and the state of affairs can be imagined. Doubtless in time people will become used to the regulation and one sincerely hopes it will not be dropped just when they are getting used to it, as happened to the Iuckless but' excellent "one way" traffic onder. Meanwhile these Tittle happeni all add to the excitement of life and often one hax paid generously to hear professional funny men say or do far less comical things thai happened yesterday at that cone during a wait for one of the 9- minute interval trams that arrived after 22 minutes, "The Mikado"
We are asked to state that at the performances of "The Mikado" the overture will start promptly at 9.15 pam, at which hour the doors of the "theatre will be closed. The overture will Inst probably" seven minutes or so, and in will be included a number of the best known of the "Mikado" airs played as violin solos by Mr. Heyes, Then, when the overture is finished, the theatre doors will be re-opened for wu ple of minutes or so for the niece of late comers, and will again be definitely closed until the conclusion of the first act. It is also announced that on the occasion of the opening night, at any rate, no encores will be given. As regards the first part of thix arrangement, there is no doubt that it will meet with approval from all real love of the Savoy operas. Your true overture interrupted, and it is Savoyard will not even tolerate his
fon record that Sullivan' himself, while seated: unobtrusively in. the house, was irately reprimanded by the man next to him for whistling ithe airs of one of his own operas, Te was, "Sir, I came to. hear Sollivan's brilliant susie, not your feonfounded warbling," or words to that effect. On the' subject of encores it is quite likely that people may disagree, but there is a special reason for this arrangement on the first night at any rate. Being the 200th pr n of the A.D.C. some special kind of ceremony may have to be undertakes, and there ix no desire to keep people up until all hours of the night. But remembering certain delightful performances tone might hope for the rule to be relaxed on subsequent evenings, Tt is probably very selfish, especially when @ man such as Henry Lytton has to take to-sitting down on the stage and refusing point blank to 0 another hand's turn unless the others are allowed to get on with their work, but it is very. human and most enjoyable,
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