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(From Σ Χ Quarterly.)

plays have as much stirring interest and dramatic (or melodramatic) situa­tions as “East Lynne.” It seems never to fail in the way of attraction, and a good audience greeted its return to Edinburgh last Monday evening. The company is a good one, though not particularly strong. Miss Helen Cresswell gave a powerful rendering of Lady Isabel; at no time, in a part severely sensational, dropping into the hysterical. Messrs Courtneidge, Guiness, and Worthing were in every way satisfactory, if never powerful, in their various rôles. Considerable interest was taken in the debut of Miss Brickmann, who appeared in the part of Barbara Hare. Miss Brickmann should have a most successful career before her, if we are to judge from her late appearances. One can scarcely expect as yet the training and ease of the professional actress, but Miss Brickmann possesses a grace and