With "Whitebait and Greenwich" and "Faust and Marguerite" the Shanghai Amateur "Dramatle Club Dogan its successful career in 1907 'Therefore the present season which now ending with the clever produ Mon of "Children "to Blass You" marks the seventieth year of the Club's existence. For' this Inst play. the Club has been fortunate enough fo secure the skilled direction of Mrs. Gardner Crane who, with her has delighted "so many productions of "the Players and has most Sportingly put her services at the disposal of the senior organization, with most satisfactory results, This Journal's reviewer has indicated his warm appreciation of the frst performance, but it will be judged from letter published elsewhere that ex= cessive diffidence in the reen Foam seems to have overcome certain sup= Porters of the Club. It is. feared apparently that intelligent readers will not be stficiently seized of the excellence of the play and its. play fers to make the appropriate assault fon the box ofice, Perhaps more exte= ful reading of ihe Indeed veneral "ie ea be. gathered reports ouching tile to Temove apprehensions. which are quite understandable in those whose Iodesty is apt to be accentuated by the emotional crises inseparable from dramatic productions whether ornate our or professional, mnlable re-lewer by his Instance this jour may be added for the bens need of the inform: report solely on the first nights per formance after a careful preliminary study of the play" itself from placed at his disposal. To suggest that his review, avoiding as it rightly did the affront of dndiseri adulation. was" lacking in under st 3 in hyperbole which calmer reflection Would surely reject,
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