The Juno Company.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4467, 30 April 1883, Page 2

The Juno Company.

"GREEN BUSHES."

There was a crowded house at the Academy of Music on Saturday night to witness the representation of " Green Bushes "by Miss Eloise Juno and her dramatic troupe. This play is one which depends a great deal on elaborate scenery and effects, and considering the disadvantages under, which they labored, the company may be complimented on the result they produced. There is very little scope for powerful acting in the drama, but what opportunities there were, were fairly taken advantage of. Aa Miami, the huntress, Miss Juno gave the part all the necessary prominence, but there is little in the part to display Miss Juno's accomplishments to any great degree. Her passionate love for the man who deceives her, and who eventually dies at her hands, was well pourtrayed. As the O'Kennedy Mr Gerald Dillon played better than we have yet seen him, but yet a little more life may with advantage be infused into his delineations. Miss Featherstone's pourtrayal of the faithful and affectionate wife Geraldine met with that appreciation at the hands of the audience which it fully merited. Nelly O'Neil was very efficiently played by Miss Greenless, who infused a great deal of spirit into the part of the tender-hearted foster sister, whose plaintive song leads to the.discovery of the lost child. Mr Marshall made a very respectable George O'Kennedy, but a slight tameness in the rendition of the character might be with advantage dispensed with. As Murtogh Mr Russell was only a partial success. His brogue j was correct; but when will actors get it out of their heads that to play the character of an Irishman, they must travel about with a small log of wood in their hands, and roar and bellow at the top of

their voices, intersprising their roaring with a wild wboop, a" begorrn," and such adsurdities? Mr Russell's impersonation was, barring its boisierousness, a fair one, Messrs McGowan and Medus were very amusing as Jack Gong and Muster Grinnidge, would-be importers of the Indians for show purposes. Their make-up was capital. The subsidiary were well filled. To-night Miss Juno appears in " Leah the Forsaken." This impersonation is one that Miss Juno has made one of her most sue cessful representations. The star will be supported by the full strength of the company. ■■■ : -- ..■ ■ ■■. ■■