... DRURY LANE. Tel brille au second rang gui s'eclipse au premier is a sentiment which finds but little favour with our modern aspirants to Thespian renown. They will go in for first- class business, or else eschew the sock and buskin alto- gether, ...

... DRURY LANE. The Hypocrite, acted on Saturday night, belongi to a olass of comedy which, after its original run of favour, should have bean consigned to oblivion. The chief character (Dector Cantwell) is a falsa portraiture, and never did exist in this ...

... DRURY LANE. TLe Christmas pantomime at Diary Live Theatre, always cogcily looked forward to r.3 one of the greatest spectacular entertainments of the se.ason, will on this ccoision fully realise the most highly wrought expocta- tieiif. Mr. Augustus Harris ...

... DRURY LANE OPERA. • A good all-round performance of M Carmen took place on Wednesday. Miss Pauline Jo ran scored a decided success as the heroine. She has the phi/sique for the part, and altogether presented a more than adequate histrionic impersonation ...

... DRURY LANE THEATRE. -•» . The chief interest in the performance of **M_ritao%» last evening was centred in the appearance of Mr Ben Davies and Miss Lucile Hill in the two chief characters It „ needless to say that they both acquitted themsl vts s2b J* ...

... DRURY LANE THEATRE. Fifty years have elapsed since Balfe's Bohemian Girl was produced for the first time, and a performance was given yesterday to celebrate the event. That this work has retained a hold upon the affections of the public was evidenced ...

... DRURY LANE THEATRE. —^- HEARTS ARE TRUMPS. The Drury Lane entertainment presented on Saturday evening to a full and delighted house is as magnificent as Drury Lane entertainments pro- fess to be. It is in many respects a «ood specimen of its kind, though ...

... DRURY LANE THEATRE. Fletcher's comedy of The Elder Brother was restored lat night to the mode, n stige; certain omissions and altera- tions h-.virg been made to suit the taste of the pre- sent >tate of society. This comedy is less objee-ionab'e, upon ...

... DRURY LANE THEATRE. The enterprise of Sir Augustus Harris placed last night within the reach of Metropolitan playgoers a performance, in the original German, of that essentially German play Heimath, of which French and Italian versions had already ...

... DRURY LANE THEATRE. The new five-act drama by Messrs. Henry Hamilton and Augustus Harris, entitled The Royal Oak, is in some respects a new departure. For some time Mr. Han is has had the conviction that it would be possible to introduce at the National ...

... DRURY LANE THEATRE. It waa rather in the costume than in the character of Othello that Mr. John M'Cullough appeared ma this theatre on Saturday evening. Regarded simply aa a matter of dress tbe impersonation waa something more than could bave been desired ...

... DRURY LANE THEATRE. Macbeth, which Signer Rossi has chosen for the third of bis Shaksperian delineations, is better suited to him than either Hamlet or Lear. Accepting an old scholastic definition we may say that, while Hamlet presents being and Lear ...