Miss Colborne-Baber does not fetch the Sydney critics like she did their brothers of the quill in Melbourne. Thus wrote ope of the former concerning Her performance in “ Girofle : ': —“ Miss Colbopn t e-Baber’s impersonation of the twin sisters is very p6or, She has a good but indexible voice, a cold and careless delivery, and no notion of acting. She evidently thinks that her possession of a good voice absolves her from the necessity of taking any trouble in the delineation of a part, and has sung latterly in|a slovenly fashion ” A movement is afloat to dispose of the properties belonging to the Port Philip Steamship Hotel Company on the tontine system. Take Hop Bitters three times a-day, and you will have no doctors’ bills to pay. That is, if made by American Co. See.
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Evening Star, Issue 7183, 11 April 1887, Page 4
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134Untitled Evening Star, Issue 7183, 11 April 1887, Page 4
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