... . ASH WEDNESDAY as an institution is about the most unwel come event in the actor's year. His theatre is on this evening closed, his most succulent morsels of talent are laid aside, the voice of praiseful patronage is mute, and he is fully conscious of the fact that one night's salary is, upon this festive occasion, absent. Therefore, being a creature that requires to be enter taining or ...

... nUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. [communicated ARRAH, Mr. Boucicault, darlin,' what the divil do you mane by trying to humbug the English in your old ago with your gingerbread sintiments about the Ould Counthry? Sure they see through ye as clean as if you was Parnell or a pane of glass. At your time av life you ought to know bether. Sure, you've made pliaty av money wid the dramas you've already written ...

... . It would have been surprising indeed had Mr. Alexander Henderson's new campaign at the Folly opened unsuccessfully. There has been an amount of determined liberality, not to say luxurious extravagance, displayed in the entire casting and mount ing of the comedy-bouftés, as they are called, that is almost overpowering. Following a judicious plan, Mr. Henderson has been careful to engage the ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. JILLE. SARAH BERNHARDT. By One who has Neveb Seen Hee. Compiled from Contemporary Criticisms, c. LIKE Mr. Hollingshead, of the Gaiety Theatre, himself, I chose other fields of dramatic exercise than the Comédie Francaise in the Strand, as a matter of study, on Whit-Mon- day, when simultaneously were produced that great moral show, Drink, at the Princess's, and the varied ...

... In common with many well-regulated persons, I have a natural antinathv to attend funerals. Some men of whom T'have cogni sance take to it with all the enthusiasm of amateur mutes. The regularity of their attendance at the obsequies of public men arises, I imagine, less from a desire to pay respect to the dead than from a wish to see their names in the newspapers. I should not think of making ...

... . ALBEIT, I am called upon to write about Actors Out of Doors, I must remark that the subject is a much wider one than can adequately be dealt with in the limited space at my disposal. I can only offer a few general remarks thereanent, merely pre facing that the exercise is somewhat perfunctory. Xn the present day when the actor takes his walks abroad he is forted by the knowledge that his ...

... . THE approach of Easter is a time when, many managers find it not altogether easy to fill the benches of their respective houses with audiences. The result is that a theatrical whip is performed by sagacious acting managers, and the dead heads of the metropolis are called upon to come and dress the house. There is a large portion of the population which is constantly going from theatre ...

... . The champion sculler of England, says the Daily News, was, till quite lately, the champion of Europe, and indeed of the known world. Aspirants from America might challenge a University Four, but no foreign professional was so hardy as to touch the champion sculler's shield. Now the championshship is shorn at tame than the finish, for Higgins' ship was damaged in the foul and he rowed home in ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. MODERN WIVES AT THE ROYALTY. THERE is, amongst what may be styled stock stories, a pretty well known one relating to Murphy, the almanac maker. It sets out that once, when sojourning in the country, he set out one fine morning on an excursion. After proceeding a short distance he came across a farm labourer, with whom he entered into conversation. This man, on learning ...

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... CHESS. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. mini --We are much obliged for your letter and problem. t'p (Tiiwewich). Your prer.ty game is very welcome. J. are glad to hear from you once more, and thank you for three No. 302, by D. L. A. HarroMgate) is correct. S°lution of Problem No. 303 (Mr. II. Jackson's) by E ,L. and Julia fihort is B^U-We have posted a letter to you. Solution op Pkohi.km No. 302. ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE PICKPOCKET. WITH the tricks and the man ners of the feloniously-inclined I can claim an acquaintanceship which I flatter myself is beyond the average. One of the boxes from which I have witnessed many curious and interesting per formances on the stage of life is located in the Bow-street Police Court. Erom it I have perforce studied for hours the peculiar ...