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Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1686, 16 July 1879, Page 4

I road in a Paris paper a criticism on a young debutante which I should like to hurl at every actress on tho English stage : “Elio rfipond sans avoir dooule.” My countrywomen, who satisfy yourselves and your admirers so easily, you ought to pass under tho critical inspection of tho nnimpassioned Parisian. You all answer without having listened, and the effect is exasperating. Try for once the experiment of disregarding the rontinist who tells you to look at tho audience; look at tho ootor who speaks to you ; listen with your face, with your eyes, and I undertake that you will find ten emphatic and audible appreciates even in a liondon Louse.—“ Atlas” in “The World.”

Those who have not yet studied Mrs Brnssoy’s book will be interested to hoar of the eccnic decorations and acccisorica in a Chinese theatre. Whether tho critics in tho local journals declared that the “ scenery and appointments were in Chang-Hi’s best style, and left nothing to be desired,” we are not told ; but it they did, it must be admitted that they are easily pleased. Tho hero and heroine of the play which Mrs Brassey saw — they were a Tartar general and his wife escaping after a great battle—had to climb together up a high mountain, and this was composed of “ five kitchen chairs arranged in a pyramid on tho top of Hires kitchen tables, held in position by men in their ordinary dress.” To bo able to accept such a structure in the light of n mountain the spectators must be gifted with a singularly cioiuloua mind and a very strong faculty for “ making believe.”

Miss Emily Melville is playing in “Pinafore” at the Standard Theatre, San Francisco, and Miss Amy Shorwin was to appear in the same piece at tho Opera House. The Califor* iiinn papers speak very highly of Miss Sherwin’s debut in “ Traviata.”

Tho Shakespeare Memorial Festival, hold during the last week in April, seems to have fore off with great success. Tho principal eature of tho performances was tho opening piece, “ Mcch Ado About Nothing,” with Mrs Martin (Miss Helen Faucit) as Beatrice, and Mr Barry Sullivan as Benedick. Both wore most enthusiastically received. Tho other pieces played during the Festival wore “Hamlet” and “ As You Like It.”