To the Editor of the Nortu-Cutva Dany New:
Siz—Your critic gave a very adequate and fair account of that admirable ballet, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, which will be shown again at the Lyceum at the end of the week, Yet it is to be regretted that so many people in Shanghai seem to ignore that there is in this city where we are deprived, as a rule, of any artistic or intellectual entertainment, a spectacle of such rare beauty the Russian Ballets.
As a perfectly - impartial person with no axe to grind and with no interest whatsoever in the management of those ballets, I wish to s that it is a pity there is not a better backing on we part of the Shanghai public who, in the circumséince demonstrates the weaker side of the "Shanghai, mind."
The scenery is gorgeous, the costumes worthy of any first class theatre in Europe or America and Miss Audrey King one of the best dancers and actresses I have ever seen. Let it be sai en passant, that while many Japanese have pa tronized the show, Chinese have been conspicuous by their al nce—which is not to their credit Shanghai, Dee. 6
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