A very clever aggregation of Russian artists are engaged in giving performances in. the Prench Municipal Hall at regular intervals and ure effecting improvements on anything of the nature which the: Russian community has presented in the past, There was undoubtedly a. number of reasons why ambitious:
ormances in the past should not ed all the support that red. Productions in a full-when for any reason this are only' too it in the manner ively small stage of the old Club "has to a very great extent obviated the dancer of the more apparent crudities and afforded those sponsible, under the leadership] of Mr. L. Roten an opportunity resenting more finished productions. Despite these facts it was with very considerable pleasure that the writer sat through 'a performance Roi amuse" "on Sunday. "night. The scenery was excellent. throughout, "exceptionally colourful and highly original, providing avery ime. background for the charming essen worn by the ladies and Porting "a" general sensation warmth, which had its effect. upon the. audience, "The two leading ladies, outdistanethe men in the matter of acting. Mme. Bitner, whose charmingly ex: pressive use of her hands straps hee for a very real artist with her singing and dancing undoubtedly did much to enhance the success the show. "Mme, Goerz as La Grande "Cogdette was delightfully dressed, especially in the second act and. sang and danced. excellent while Mme." Panova-Richter,—an amateur, did mush inthe way _0f Providing, broad humour in a way Which did her infinite credit "The men did not appear i> such ood effect ax the ladies Mr.
adinof? us King of the Sandwich Islands bent on having a good time in Paris, with the assistance of La Grande Coquette, used his fine voice to good effect, though there appear-oda certain' amount of stiffness shout his work which robbed it of the conviction it' should have had. Mr. 1. Rosen, the cavalryman, also bent on. having a good time, Kent the audience in continual roars of Toughter with "his very" matter-of-fact portrayal of a tough private, and, if. sometimes. his lines were {ust a trifle broader than they shoul have' been, it was all ju good fun! oan by no means unenjoyable. The] small chorus and corps" de baht ied some nice singing and some! delightful dancing and helped to Yound out a. really" good evening entertainment.
ticularly' pleasing as suggesting tha The whole performance was par-now the Russian artists have found theatre admirably adapted—tol their, requirements, they are able give better expression to their art than when they had to: face the anxieties of having to Gill some of the larger houses. It is to be the "Believe it oF not" cartoons,
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