AMUSEMENTS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2117, 6 December 1880, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

ix The approaching advent of Colo' Mamy, moth Show appears to have operated ai a jh complete jcare among the several public ie amusement caterers in this city, it The dramatic company at the Theatre in Boyal have broken up and dispersed, and the others are giving place to the superior olaims of the all abiorbing cirous. At the Lingards* Company performance at the Oddfellows* Hall on Saturday evening, a » " Baby Betsy," a very attractive and en--18 joyable comedy, was submitted, and_ it i 0 ia to be regretted that so sparkling a pieca '• and one, too, so fairly within the scope of the 9 abilities of this small company, should 0 have been reserved to the last, and has '• not been given earlier in the season. r The prinoipal characters were satisfactorily *• represented by Mr and .Mrs Lingard, but the 1 honors of the evening were achieved by the r masterly and effeotive personation of the » character of Alexander St. Paul by Mr 8 Charles Overton, and one is almost at a loss • to understand how an actor of his undoubted ? ebilities should be " busking " about with a 1 scratch company. Mr J. B. Steele was far • too ponderous as Captain O'Manus, and it > would be " flit blasphemy "to say that his > efforts were a success. We notice that Cole's > Circus is announced to open on the ground opposite Coker's Hotel, in Manchester street South, and, if reliance cm be pla.ed on the flattering ■ reports which have appeared in northern newspapers, a rich, and an unusual treat may be confidently explored.