Show the strategists agdens theatre going joing public has recently had many an opportunity fo for r a good hearty laugh one that convulses your diaphragm and twists tw ests your neck lieck awry but on no occasion was thoro there inore fun to tickle tho the spectators muscles than last evening at the performance of theo II 11 sa sayres res four act fare farcical ical colnai comedy y of if re the strategists tile company had come well recommended but the expectations of the all audience were fulfilled tho tile piece itself is above the average farce but doca does not reach the scale of legitimate comedy there is any ally amount in it but without sufficient internal connection to make it a plot the stratagem adopted by the young lover io to secure the consent of lila sweethearts father isas is as old as the literature of comedies tile disguise business is sometimes carried to it most improbable extreme butau but just t for that reason oil leads to incidents and complications e which are irresistibly ludicrous what redeems the farce from the charge of vapid hess lim id is the excellent acting of the artists by whose subtle mimicry tho tile disguises are brought ro glit out to eo much more surprising ali and lid exhilarating the burden of the strategy falls on oil jack Rutt ruttledge ledgel in whom the vices and virtues virtue sarc are li half alfand and half this difficult role was in the hands B polk who assumed the various various characters of himself hia his progenitor and his prospective father in iii law with m case se ant and A skill air mr harry linden lindell as is major gave the poltroon well espella iy ay on oil his return from mhd club jacks f ather and rev Mild hildman nian have nothing salient hi in their parts but did lid well P peppers c ers was hardly villainous enough impersonation in son ati of the impetuous 1111 hib hibernian cr by mr 31 ALG gal a higher was the source e of the greatest hilarity and motet most unstinted applause hisa flam flain was a true trite irishman while mr L F P howards sergeant was not a consistent stent dutchmen oil only ly spasmodically coming licar to nature distorted in tile mirror of burlesque rendition the ladies hadies miss gilbert as tile arch lover nellie miss carroll as the jealous mrs howard and miss Cu cumming mining as the pert saucy ara araminta minta brought out all the nuni numerous crous good points to best advantage As a whole the audience I which might m have been larger in the tc was well pleased and timid got their moneys worth in fun full and laugh |