This evening's show at the Lyceum marks the last performance by the Shanghai Opera Company of Sigmund Rombergs popular "Desert Song" which they successfully rendered last night and øn Thursday. Zorich and Kudinoff have the light romantic parts, the latter playing a dual role, that of a French officer's son and the Red Shadow, the phantom leader of the Riffs.
Supporting the principals are Shimansky, Markov, Selivanoff, Stella Duff, Helen Crosnier and V. Panova, as well as a large ballet and augmented chorus. The male Riff and Legionnaire selections are specially well done. Some excellent dancing is interpreted by the Astors, the ljevsky-Saraboon combination and by Alla Nedler.
During the latter part of the month, the company proposes repeating "La Boheme.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.