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Show AMUSEMENTS. I.ott a. Ina. The performance of "Ina" by Lotta and her company, at tho theater last night, was a delight from beginning to end. "Ina" is a peculiar play and something d liferent lifer-ent from anything else Lotto- has ever attempted. It is called by A. K. Fulton, in author, "a musical comedy," but at times it approaches the operatic. The plot furnishes the ground work for an interesting story aud some amusing characters, that were well impersonated last night. Ina is a flower girl in tho streets of Paris, where she is discovered and recognized rec-ognized as the long-lost daughter of a wealthy marquis. The latter reclaims his child and is shortly afterwards persecuted per-secuted by the revolutionary government govern-ment of France for indulging his literary liter-ary hobbies, and they have to disguise themselves to remain in the capital. When singing ou the streets, Ina had learned to love Gerard. Hor father ob-I ob-I jocted to thuir marriage, because he I cousidered tho latter below his daughter daugh-ter in birth. Gerard enlists with tho people, determined to win a station worthy of Ina. When reverses come, Ina goes In search of her lover and it is during these travels that Lotta is furnished the best opportunity of displaying her talent. tal-ent. Shu appears In five distinct characters char-acters during the evening, viz: a street singer, an heiress, an oldlady, a waiter boy and a drummer boy. She delineates deline-ates each character with great artistic skill. In the first act, her love-making with Gerard is a pretty piece of work, as were such scenes throughout. In the third act, where Lotta changes her disguise from an old lady to a waiter boy to escape detection liy the police, she captivated the audience. As a drummer boy she overdid the character a little but was charming for all that, Tonight, "Pawn ticket No. 210." |