EAST LYNNE.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXIII, Issue 6604, 8 May 1890, Page 2

EAST LYNNE.

I'IHKRS was, a fair altendaoce at I he Academy .of Music, in spile of the downpour last, night, to see the Vivian Como'any in East Lynne. The interest in the .pieoo" centred in Miss Vivian's aotins se Lady, Isabel, and later as Madame Vine, Allied whs of hiiirionia ability, put.: loulnflyja.lli? li*ier.o!ia-aotif. Her act* iiiij throughout was worthy of tho fluent ifeoolvad \,\w gootnfttl ra< pulst* .of hor beltaycp, lici'.rombrea, and the mm ,at tho donth of hoc child and hor owq, \yere admirably {wfonned and very

affeoiing. Mr Flahaven made a very good Archibald Oarlyle; but was too stiff at the deathbed of Lady Isabel, his Vepenlant wife. Arthur Vivian was capital as Sir Francis Levison, the murderer and roue. •Mr Ford made a good Lord Mount 9evern. Miss Haalewood deserved great credit for her part as Bnrbata Hare, in which alio was natunl and self possessed. Miss Violet Andrew as. the snnsterCornolia Oarlyle was Tory amusing, perhnps a little overdone, Miss Gordon,as Joyce, and Mr Voss, as tho constable carried ouf their pnrls auoeeasfully, whilst little Rose Andre'iy as Willie waa oharming, and got through the ordeal of dying in upproved fashion with great credit. The performance concluded with the Hilent Woman, a sparkliogMiUle farce in which the fun was keptup till tho end. "Mr Vivian wab remarkably good in the son?, "Run for the Doctor, Charlie dear," The Company should have a good house to-night.