A Royal Galaxy and Boyaxy of Artists in the play of
AS YOU LIKE IT,
By William Shakespeare, or Lord Bacon.

Cast.

“Alas! unmindful of their doom, the little victims play;
No sense have they of ills to come, or cares beyond to-day.”

Rosalind

The Lady Bell-Pepper. (Her greatestcreation.)

Celia

The Countess Paulina.

Phœbe

The Duchess of Sweet Marjoram.

Audrey

A talented Incognita of the Court.

Orlando

Hennery Irving Salvini Strong. (Latefrom the Blank Theatre, Oil City.)

Adam

Dr. Paul Winship. (By kind permission ofhis manager, Mrs. T. W.)

Banished Duke / Sylvius

Lord John Howard

Lightning Change Artist.

Touchstone / Jacque

Duke of Noble

(N.B.—The Duke of Noble has played the“fool” five million times.)

Oliver

Mr. Scott Burton. (Speciallyengaged.)

Charles the Wrestler

Pancho Muldoon Sullivan. (His firstappearance.)

The Comb Orchestra will play the Music of the Future.

The Usher will pass pop-corn between the Acts. Beds may be ordered at 10.30.

The scene between Adam and Orlando went off with good effect; and when Celia and Rosalind came through the trees in an affectionate attitude, and Celia’s blithe voice broke the stillness with, “I pray thee, Rosalind, sweet my coz, be merry,” there was a hearty burst of applause which almost frightened them into silence.

At the end of the first act everybody was delighted; the stage-manager, carpenter, scene-shifter, costumier, and all the stars were called successively before the curtain.

Hop Yet declared it was “all the same good as China theatre”; and every one agreed to that criticism without a dissenting voice.

To be sure, there was an utter absence of stage-management, and all the “traditions” were remarkable for their absence; but I fancy that the spirits of Siddons and Kemble, Macready and Garrick, looked down with kind approval upon these earnest young actors as they recited the matchless old words, moving to and fro in the quaint setting of trees and moonlight, with an orchestra of cooing doves and murmuring zephyrs.