The Eloise Juno Company.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4466, 28 April 1883, Page 2

The Eloise Juno Company.

" EAST LYNNE."

The Academy of Music was literally packed with an appreciative audience last evening to witness the performance by Miss Juno's Company of the time-honored though ever popular " Easfc Lynne." Much had been expected in the production of the piece, and anticipations were fully realised. Interest was closely enchained throughout the evening, and while the stage was occupied by the leading characters the slightest whisper might have been heard all over the hall. Mies Juno, to whom was assigned the principal characters, those of Lady Isabel, and Madam Vine, appeared to throw her whole soul into her work, producing in the most natural and touching manner the successive emotions of the loving iwife, the tempted woman, the deserted dupe, and the penitent and 'heart-broken mother. The pathos with which she inrested the concluding scenes was indescribable, and repeated applications of the cambric might have been seen throughout the house—not; by any means confined to the gentler sex. Mr Kussell, as Archibald Carlyle .was a little stiff, but nevertheless performed his arduous part creditably. •The sisterly Corney found an able representative in Mrs McGowan, her various tantrums creating much amusement. Miss Gieenless as Barbara Hare acquitted herself well, but the rendering of the ballad so inseparably associated with the play was scarcely up to the mark. Sir Francis Levison—the sleek and heartless deceiver—played by Mr Marshall, was very successful, and of the subordinate characters it is necessary to mention Miss Leonard, who as Wilson was the ideal of a pert and officious housemaid, and Miss Featherstone, as the faithful Joyce. With the exception of the slight imperfections we have mentioned, no fault could be found with the performance of the adaptation of Mrs Woods' favorite novel.