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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 199, 11 May 1918, Page 8

An audience of blinded soldiers "saw* a performance of "Inside the Lines'on February 8, the company from tna Apollo theatre, London, making a special visit to St. Dunstan's Hospital for Blind Soldiers and being accorded three cheers at (ho fall of the curtain. It was a capital performance, run through 'it a speed unknown to the theatre, there being no need for the setting sml changing of elaborate scenes. The men greatly enjoyed it. They not only heard the line* and followed the exciting plot, but they saw the moving drama before them, despite their sightless eyes; each .according to the degree in which experience had charged his mind and the .strength of Ins imagination. Scarcely a point, even of stago "business," escaped them. As for the players, they went through their parts with the same punctilious attention to detail that they show in the glnio ot tho footlights, despite the fact that imaginary doors had to 1m shut, an imaginary safe unlocked, an imaginary window looked through, and an imaginary boilquel placed upon a-up, it was a real table Thero was miiuite pathos m ho way 'in which the audience _ faced tlu> stage, eyes open, features strained to attention.' II- was difficult to realise that in reality tho only picture they saw- was that made visible in tho mind s eye. Perhaps it was a nobler setting with which, they clothed the audible words than may bo encompassed by the craftsmen at the Apollo, or any other theatre—who knows? -"Westminster Gazette."

For the first time the peninsula of Labrador has been traversed from south to north by an. exploring party. Previous attempts have failed. The latest returns show that there are 4,662,000 enemy aliens in the United States; among them about DM,OOO w*a over 20 years of ago,