... llttsir WAGNER AT THE OPERA THE week at Covent Garden has been devoted almost exclusively to the music of Wagner, so that the progressive subscribers have enjoyed a suc cession of field nights. Star ...

... Mrs. Alicia Needham was paid the compliment on Saturday of a whole-programme recital of her songs in the Galleries of the Royal Society of British Artists, a performance given by invitat ...

... gufo IJjff&els ARDEN MASSITER AMONG all the novels dealing with present-day Italy, Dr. William Barry's Arden Massiter (T. Fisher Unwin) is by far and away the most powerful. Apart from its vivid pic ...

... our CAPTIOUS critic. nnnWN THEATRE, PECKHAM. TO parody the country gentleman in Handy Andy, they have spoilt Peckham with their-- improvements. It is is only by looking for them now that one can find those pretty little dwellings among trees which, a few years ago, were as much a characteristic of the locality as was the tendency of their tenants to move off without paying their tradesmen. ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE CASINO GIRL. Same old notions, name old twang, Saino old airs that others sang Samo old japes of Noah's crew, Sanio old dances nothing new. Same old costumes great in hats, Samo old voices prono to flats j Same old shuffle all way through, Same bad walkers nothing now. This is not a quotation from Mr. Richard Carle's much applauded ditty in The Casino Girl, but only a ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. SWEET NELL OF OLD DRURY. PRECISELY the same objections which may be urged against English Nell at the Prince of Wales's apply with equal force to Sweet Nell of Old Drury at the Haymarket. We must, indeed, be sadly in need of a type of English woman, or of woman's sweetness, if a creature like Eleanor Gwynne is to be put forward as representative of either. Surely our ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. SOCIETY'S VERDICT. ROYALTY has its drawbacks after all. The Prince of Wales attended the first performance of Society's Verdict, and-- more unfortunate than some of the dramatic critics-- was obliged to sit the representation out. The evening wa a dismal one in every way --there was absolutely no relief. In the depressing auditorium-- darkened as soon as the cur tain rose ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE ALHAMBRA. THE drama, at present gives us few now things which stay long enough with us to be worth noting before they go. The mischief comes, I fear, largely from the actor-manager system. Too many theatres nowadays get into the hands of gentlemen and ladies who consider that the public thinks as highly of them as they, on their side, do of their very mediocre selves. ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. MAGDA, AT THE ROYALTY THEATRE. MRS. PATRICK CAMPBELL is an actress-manager, and Magda is a play which a lady free to choose her own part can scarcely be blamed for selecting. All the glory goes to the heroine, and it is rather easily won glory, coming as it does chiefly from declamation, in which most women who are women can without great effort hold their own. I do not ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER. SAID Johnson, apropos of She Stoops to Conquer, I know of no comedy for many years which has so much exhilarated an audience, that has answered so well the great end of comedy, making an audience merry. How did they then act the only one of Goldsmith's three plays which had a great deal of success with its contemporary public? That we shall never ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE MAN OF FORTY. I SUPPOSE that I shall be accused of affinities more popular than aristocratic when I express the thought that eleven o'clock is quite late enough for a theatrical performance to finish. It is all against the thorough enjoyment of the last half-hour of an entertainment that one's attention should be complicated with anxieties about catching the last ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. fl SELF AND LADY AT THE VAUDEVILLE THE Vaudeville matinée, at which I saw for the first time --and last, I hope-- the new farcical comedy, in three acts entitled Self and Lady, was remarkably well attended especially in the cheaper parts of the theatre. The female element predominated-- in the proportion, I should say, of ten to one-- and even the ladies in the pit ...