'The theatre' had seating _accommodation for about sixty people, and had curtain, spotlights, and" back~ ground, The performance was advertised for 9.15 pin. August 28. By that time the auditorium was. filed capacity and the show was on and what a surprise it was! The smile of patronizing smugness disappeared from off all faces—here was real talent; "here was something worth coming out even in the rain to see! Songs, ducts, dances, imitations—all in. costume, and excellently done, With the two one-act plays the most Taughable little burlesques on New. Maids it would be possible to imagine. They Kept the audience in rears laughter. And it was with genuine regret that those present saw. the finale.
$200 Collected 'The collection produced well over! two hundred dollars and the names of the young artistes are as follows 'The Misses Jean Tod, Sheila Campbell, Gertrude Campbell, and Irene Philips from Shanghat,' and Miss Alice Husisian from Tientsin. In, this! gonneetion the respective A.D.C:'s of both Shanghai and Tientsin are to be congratulated in having such material to draw upon.
Before concluding, mention must be made of the very appropriate introduetory remarks by Mrs. Horace Jackson, finishing with those frp Lines of Emerson which might have been written but yesterday. instead those many decades ago and which follow:—
England in her Dark Days, "I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well remembering that she has seen dark days before; indeed, with, a kind of instinct that sees a little better in a cloudy day, and that in storm of battle and calamity she has a secret vigour and a pulse like a. cannon. I see her in her old age, not decrepit, but young, and still daring] to believe in her power of endurance and expansion. Seeing this, 1" say, All hail, Mother of Nations, Mother of Heroes, with strength still equal to the time: still wise to entertain and swift to execute the policy which the mind and heart of mankind re: quire"
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