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The "fact" of the week is the appearance of Miss Anderton, a young Manchester actress, at the Olympic Theatre. Not only has she made a successful debat in a character of "strong domestic interest," but she has raised an expectation that she will prove an acquisition of permanent value. She speaks well, looks well, moves well ; her grief is natural, her anger forcible, without trick. Whatever she has to do she seems to have quite at her command, and she exercises the command judiciously.
As for the drama in which she appears-a version of the French "drame" Marie Simon-it stands quite in need of her support. It is one of those tales of circumstantial evidence in which a heroine is just on the point of suffering capital punishment for a crime of which she is not guilty, and is then suddenly rescued, to everybody's delight and nobody's astonishment. The details which distinguish it from other pieces of the same sort are somewhat too French in their nature to have a strong hold on English sympathies, but here and there an effective tableau testifies the exertion of French ingenuity.
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