... THE VAUDEVILLE Theatre re-opened on Saturday last with a new comedy from the pen of Mr. Albery, author of The Two Roses. This gentleman having achieved one great and well-de served succes ...

... THE festival held at Gloucester last week was the 148th meeting of the choirs of the cathedrals of Gloucester, Hereford, and Worcester. Usually an institution numbering a century and a half of y ...

... Just twenty years ago the famous Mr. Barnum imported into England two clever little girls, who were known by the name of the Bateman Children. These infant marvels, aged, as the public we ...

... MILS TO TO-NIGHT, at St. James's Theatre, the Royal National Opera will commence a first series of forty performances, and inaugurate another effort to revive the English lyric stage. The natural an ...

... THE drama entitled Auramania which we lately noticed as performing at the ROYAL ALFRED Theatre, has just been with drawn to make way for a three- act play entitled True as Steel, in which ...

... THE Royal National Opera began its first season at St. James's Theatre on Saturday last, with a performance of Balfe's Rose of Castile. One might have expected the inaugural night to be a nigh ...

... MR. WILKIE COLLINS'S dramatised version of his novel en titled The Woman in White, was produced at the OLYMPIC on Monday, when this theatre re-opened for the winter season. Mr. Collins' ...

... THE Morrices, or the Doubtful Marriage (3 vols., Hurst and Blackett), is well worthy the author of All Round the Kremlin. Its freshness and warmth afford a welcome relief from the conve ...

... MUSLC SINCE our last notice the Royal National Opera has pro duced one work of English origin, and two adaptations from the Italian stage, Maritana having been brought forward on Saturday last, foll ...

... So Very Human, by Alfred Bate Richards (3 vols. Chapman and Hall), is described as a tale of the pre sent day, but its merits could not fairly be gauged by those of any other work of fict ...

... AN experimental concert was given at the Alexandra Palace on Saturday last, the object being to test the acoustics of the place, and its fitness for musical performances on a grand scale. The af ...

... MANY years ago, when Rosherville Gardens were in the first flush of novelty, a performer famous in his day reaped harvests of fame by his skill in dancing hornpipes, not as ordinary dance ...