ENTERTAINMENTS, ETC.
THE WILLIAMSON OPERA SEASON. The last performance this season of "A Runaway Girl" <was given at the Opera House on Saturday night, with customary success. The delightful comedy, "San Toy," which achieved a remarkable run at Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne, and recently at the Palace Theatre, Sydney, will be presented this evening. The comedy is at present being played by no less than fourteen distinct companies throughout England. The plot is a simple one. San Toy, the heroine, is the daughter of the Mandarin of PynkaPong, by name Tin How, and the fame of hor beauty having spread to Pekin, the seat of the Imperial Court, her attendance before the Emperor is commanded. In order to circumvent this, Yen How informs the Emperor that his child is ab oy and not a girl, and she, therefore, appears about Pynka-Pong in boys' clolhe9 The machinations of a Chinese student, however, who loves San Toy, result in the disclosure of Yen How's little trick, and San Toy has to go to Pekin, whither she is followed by her English lover, Captain Bobby Preston. In the second act, San Toy is seen at the Provincial Palace, Pekin, as first among the Emperor's many wives, and then Li, the mandarin's secretary, appears, and generally upsets the palace officials. A reception of English functionaries is held by the Emperor, at which Sir Bingo Preston, the British consul at Pynka-Pong, is present, attended by several officers and ladies. Dudley, lady's maid to Sir Bingo's daughter, is also found within the precincts of the palace, and many humorous incidents take place before the Emperor returns, and beneficently hands San Toy to her English lover. The full cast of characters is published. v
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Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 120, 17 November 1902, Page 5
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