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mortals and to the delight of their patrons

came out of the ordeal splendidly. A heavy THE WORLD-FAMOUS ZOO OF PERFORMING WILD

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who essays one of the press parts from Trained and Performed by G. Uzz Shakespeare's marvellous gallery, Every theatregoet who has thought about them at all has evolved his own transcription of the characters, has fisted them to the atmos-Man Catherine Clebrated Dancur. --phere of his own imaginings and has De-dial, Comic Sagder.

furnished the staga in accordance with his -own 'desires. So no matter how grest the player it is seldom that he, er the realises for the

the individual patron the many idiosyncracies of thought and action which the Shakespearest stadest has evolved for himself in his private study of he plays. Henry Irving always felt that handicap, so does Hermana Vezin, to aur mind one of the first exponents-of- "Shakespearean character the modern stage has seen and so we suppose do every actor and actress who assay to interpret with endscientious rority the plays of the great

Elizabethan Taking all thie into consideration we have little hesitation in.

Bise Florenes Lush in ber Graceful Equi-

Foise on the Siver Wiro.

Mookerjer, Horizontal Bar Expert.. Miss Vigible. Dashing Equestrienne. Eliott and Komish, Knockabout Clowns.

saying that the performance on Monday

evoning was very satisfactory. Tho whole company acted, with few exceptions, with a Ane restraint, giving life and sctuality to the noble lines: aot mouthing, not gabbling, Dor yet ever falling into the ons rotundo style beloved by Fechter. Siddons and the Victorian school and perpetuated sven down to the closing years of the nineteenth contury in several of the old stock companies. No, the whole porforquance was quiet, diguiñá and infused with thoughtfulness through out. Mr Charles 7400, presented a capital study of the immortal

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Jea, Nover once did he over emphasise his Ax CSPARALLELED EFENT IN THE ANNALS bitter hated of Antonio and his fellow- Christians; never once did he allow his Tage to tear itself to tatters; while bis hopeloss despair and utter breakdown in tho Court scene was one of the most natural manifestations of haffted and defeated hunmnity we have ever seen upon the stage. His exit was perfect.

Next to him in baaring off the honours of

ROYAL,

TO-NIGHT!

the ovening comes Miss, Blanche Forsyth, MAURICE E. BANDMANN PLESENTS HIS

who unde roat attractive Portin

a

From the moment when she began to

show her hopes and fears as Bassinio ad

Tance to make his choice of the caskets,

till this glorious, merry moment when

ing him his ring, she filed the stage when-

she turns the tabley upon him by return-

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-over she appeared upon it As lover, In all the Greatest and Latest Londor

as Chatelaine, as advocate, ne mischievous hummurist, she was almost the Portin of cur dreams. an excellent foil was Miss Helon Baasoll as Nerisen; with her stately pro sence and dignified delivery no wonder she resented Gratino's dubling the masque- rading lawyer's clerk as "a little scrubbed boy."

Jessica, Miss Jean Harcourt, was sweetly

played, though we детег quite forgive her plondering her father to feather a lover's nest. To Mr Henry Dallas fell what has always; appeared tour mind the unsatisfactory part of Antoni We suppose Shakespeare intended him to be the tine flower of the merchant princes of Venice, but to our way of thinking he has not made a success of the character. Of course much must be forgiven Antonio; his great love for Bassanio tempted him to enter into the bond, but then did he not at the moment confidently expect to come out the better of the Jew in the transaction, to get the use of Shylock's money for nothing? Then when he escapes the great hazard of his life through l'ortia's specious pleading and most transparent legul quibbling, he scarcely displays the magnanimity towards Shylook which tho circumstances durand, bo "rubs ib in" tuo much for our liking. But this notwith

atauding, Mr. Dallus made a very notable

Merchant. The light hearted, debonnair. Bassanie, the young fashionable, the bon sirant, the gay spendthrit, purised in the and we hope by the love of noble. Buin, excellently pourtrayed by Mr Douglas Vigos; while as Gratiano, the satey t-nguod, Mr E. Spencer Gesch was capital. We could have, wished him lena exuberant in the trial soelle. "His ear casms world have boon far more effective aa asides, instead of being shouted aloud to the world at large; he should have gone in for rapier play, not bludgeon work, for his Tiotin was already quivering, nay falling,

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The Dramatised Version of Baronous

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For the first time in Hongkong

The Screamingly Humourosa Comedy THE MARRIAGE OF

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Own Orchestra. Prices: $3, 52 & 81. Plan of Seats at MOUTRIE & CO. Doors Open at 8.- Commence at 8.

the Performance,

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minor chaisctars, MrGordan McLeod

the

Vitted with

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made an offective and lover-like Lorenzo and Fans supplied in all Cabins,

Mr. Barry Esmond a sober-paced Tabal; while the clowning of Mr. Harry Neville Launcelot Gubbo, to the excellent pantalooning of Mr. W. Baker ne Gobbo senior, was about the best we have soon Knywhere, Konkanen 200

Greally daring, the Company justified

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ing of The Merchant of Venice" must be MONDAY. WEDNESDAT & FRIDAY.

numbered among their Hongkong tul

umphs Noodles to say the play was well

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od of the best while the celeaty with which the scenes followed one aOOLDRE-WAA

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