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Show FLATFOK.M AXI S f A CiK. Uy Autm I i k I iik o 11 , Anthor, New York, 18. A pleasant greeting greet-ing was given to Aona E. Du kmaou, Lid evening, as ebo stepped upon the platform at Cbickering hall, to deliver de-liver her lecture on tha "Platform and Stage." There were very few empty seals, and tho audience was large and liberal in its applause. The speaker, at the outset applied a liltle iiony to the aunouneeinetits that had been made ol her "return lo the platform," and declared Unit uhe could not return re-turn to what she had never abundoUL-d. Ttio hrHtparlol the subject sub-ject was dismis-cd with a few words, iho major porti ju of the lucturo being to an earnebt pica lor th" stage. Blio dwelt on the univereal charm of the theatre, its influence on tha deepest feelings of all f.lire;o, and ridiculed tho etatement ot tho decadence of the-ilrnimi. the-ilrnimi. She closed with au impassion) impas-sion) d plea lor genius, which finds cx-pr cx-pr fusion on the stage and which often cullers from in runt aiid puritanical C.'iiicisiii. |