The pleasurable anticipations with which every one in Shanghai looked forward to the '"Yeomen of the Guard" were certainly not belied by Monday's performance. It suited the genius of the cast better than some of the other Savoy operas, and the immortal numbers of the piece received an ample measure of justice. Particularly was this the case in the famous '"'Merryman and his Maid" duet, the "Tower Tomb" quartette, "When a Wooer Goes a-Wooing" and Fair fax's two songs, the first "Is Life a Boon?" being the better rendered. Mr. Workman wag in his inimitable role of the Jester, bright and sparkling in the earlier stages and a sorry tragic figure at the end, a phase which could not have been bettered. Ag Elsie Maynard Miss Coramewas delightful not only in voice, which wag of the sweetest possible description, but in her acting, which always suggestive of the happy lag the case might have been kl possibilities of her peculiar case. With her, both in singing and acting, was Miss Byrl Waikely, as fine an exponent of Phoebe as we remember having heard. Miss Christine Lorimer was Dame Car~ ruthers, who, however, scarcely made the most of that very fine number "When Our Gallant Norman Foes." Mr. Gordon Crocker made a brave Colonel Fairfax and Mr. Jack Kinson as Sergeant Meryll gave a very fine representation. Mr. Victor Prince set out to give his own interpretation of Shadbolt, the gaoler, and it was not according to Gilbert. Gilbert drew Shadbolt from history, selecting as his prototype one of the most loathsome characters of the Tower, and as played elsewhere this fea~ ture has been reproduced with considerable fidelity. Mr, Prince elected to do it differently, and as an example of his particular art succeeded in convulsing Phoebe while the latter was in the midst
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