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Scene from "Cymon and Iphigenia", at the Lyceum Theatre, [London], 1850. '...the scene in which Iphigenia is discovered in a bower asleep by Cymon, who falls in love with her, April standing by, and watching the youthful pair...Iphigenia, or Sylvia, was represented by a debutante, Miss Manners, whose appearance is suggestive of promise which we hope to see fulfilled. Mr. Frank Matthews, as her old guardian, Dorcas, was full of his usual drollery, and illustrated deafness to admiration. The scenery and all the appointments of the stage were exquisitely elegant and effective. The dialogue of the piece was wittily pointed at the follies of the time, the application of which was aided by a chorus in the person of Mr. Mathews, armed with innumerable jests and a sufficient commodity of comic songs.' From "Illustrated London News", 1850.