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"he Merry Wide back to lovers of gaiety in the A.D.C. production on Saturday night at the Lyceum, may be called an entirely an fait production of brilliant proportions, It was on its first night.
particularly luminous undertaking, and an audience, which had deen forewarned of the splendid costumes being prepared for the 206th performance of the A.D.C. were, it is safe to say, entirely un prepared for the glowing scenes which unfolded thmeselvos. Quick to appreciate the efforts of the organization to achieve a noteworthy performance, the audience immedi-rely declared itself in favour of the show by filling the theatre before 9 pin, and upon the tick of the hour the orchestra. launched into the delicious strains of The Merry Widow."
Act 1, with its familiar and colourful' scenes in the Marsovian Embassy in Paris and exhilarating melody, presented practically the whole cast. There was Natalie Popoff, wife of the Marsovian ambassador, played by Mrs, Isherwood in charming voice, and her lover the Vicomte Camille de Jolidon, admirably played by Mr. Brown, whose singing voice ha: unquestioned appeal, if somewhat Tacking in volume. There was the inimitable Mr. Nisch, played by Mr, G. B. Stormes, confidant in general and comedian in particular, and there was Mr. D. J. Donne in the role of Baron Popoff, the Am dor, who made of his part as good one as London and Now York has. lately seen in revivals of "The Merry Widow.
The Widow herself was a romantic reality in the singing and airy candour of Mrs. Isenman, who wore her dazzling gowns to perfection and toyed with the hovering hosts of admirers of the widow's twenty millions in lyric ° melody. Scenes between the Merry Widow and her candid lover, Prince Danilo, were especially effective. Mr. N. C. Macgregor, while retaining to a certain degree the universal air of the Englishman, was a particularly disarming and likeable Marsovian prince in search " of excitement at Maxim's and in doubt as to whether ho might align himself with the widow's dollar-seckers or not, 'The! singing voice of Mr. Macgregor was first introduced in 'Act 1, when he appeared at the Ambassador's reguest at the Embassy, answering his country's call. He' makes an interesting inebriate, with just the right touch of recklessness to add que to the love affair of the Merry Widow and himself. The end of Act 1 ig marked by an excellent finale, which shows the careful chorus training of the cast, necessarily a large one.
Act III opened with a wave of applause from the darkened spaces of the theatre, and small wonder viewing the Marsovian costumes of the guests on the grounds of Sonia Merty. Widow house in Paris. Some pretty dancing and more excellent chorus work heightened this scene, one likely to forget. the
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