To mark its lust appearance at Lyceum T the A.D.C, been giving away at its eoneludnye performances this week, sou vanir programmes which one can well imagine being kept fr many years, after a close stud be pulled out and looked over again with interest when a few old Shanghailanders get together and talk over old days and doings.
"And So To Bod" was singularly fitting for the title of a last per~ formance production and the beautiful but exhausted gentleman on the cover of the souvenir programme rug less in-place, ave reproduced old programmes of shows given by the Club, together with a short rénumeé of the Club's history. The former make the modern programme seem a serious thing indeed by comparison. Puns of all degrees of wittiness and otherwise appear to have been popular above every other kind of joke, but nevertheless in the assunied names of those taking part and in footnotes and comments no opportunity was lost At the foot of the first entertain iment given by the Club in the first Lyceum Theatre March 1, 1867, there is this warning notice: "The Committee will not be responsible for any debts of their own contracting. Doors open 8 p.m, Performance to commence at Carriages to Persons not sleep in the Theatre on applicat to the Harbour Master. The fee for berth is Tis, 10 and they must find their own gas."
There is a facsimile given also of the programme of an even earlier how, staged before the real founding of the Club, and one or two other besides photographs of actors. in costume, in which the girls indeed ook charming.
Altogether this souvenir program-ime is an excellent piece of work, and the A.D.C. are to be congratulated for producing a souvenir, so worthy of their last play and themselves, to bbe treasured for many years by those: who still live here with a hankering: longing for the "Good old days."
AcconiNe to a report in the! Chinese press, 244 trade marks, including 189 foreign trade marks, were registered with the Kiangst Trade Marks Bureau last month.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.