piece is a worthy successor to Dorothy, Marjorie, and Paul Jones.  As Captain Therese, Miss ATTALLIE CLAIRE reminds mature playgoers of that “such a little Admiral” that was irresistible many years ago.  She is bright, clever, and, above all, refined.  Miss PHYLLIS BROUGHTON makes up for rather a weak voice by great strength in dancing, and Mr. HARRY MONKHOUSE is genuinely comic.  Mr. HENRY ASHLEY, always conscientious even in his mirth, at the end of the Second Act, is suggestive of the Astley’s of the Westminster Road.  Like the piece, he is very well mounted.  Madame AMADI is also excellent, a genuine lady-comedian—­or should it be comedienne?  Then there is Mr. JOSEPH TAPLEY, a capital tenor, and Mr. HAYDEN COFFIN, silver-voiced and graceful, the beau ideal of the hero of a Light Opera company.  For the rest, the chorus and band could not be better, and the production is worthy of DRURIOLANUS, or, rather, CHARLES, his brother, and also his friend.  So Messrs. BISSON and PLANQUETTE, and their English collaborateur, may toast one another, happy in the knowledge that the entente cordiale has once more received hearty confirmation at the hands of the London public; they may cry, with reason, Vive la France! and Hip, hip, BRITANNIA! feeling sure that, by their joint exertions, they have obtained for the Anglo-Saxon race that blessing to the public in general, and Theatrical Managers in particular, a lasting piece.

[Illustration:  “‘Ashley’s’ Revived!”]

[Illustration:  “Flagging Energy.”]

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“WEDDED TO THE MOOR.”

  The sportive M.P., when the Session is done,
  Is off like a shot, with his eye on a gun. 
  He’s like Mr. Toots in the Session’s hard press,
  Finding rest “of no consequence.”  Could he take less? 
  But when all the long windy shindy is o’er,
  He, like Oliver Twist, is found “asking for Moor!”

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JOTS AND TITLES.—­The busy persons who, in a recent Mansion House list, had found quite “a Mayor’s nest” in the highly important question of a Cardinal’s precedence, have recently started another scare on discovering that the Ex-Empress’s Chaplain at Chislehurst has described himself, or has been described, on a memorial tablet which he had put up in his own church, as a “Rector.”  Evidently a mistake.  If he erected the Memorial, he should have been described as “The Erector.”

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