... the largo audiences assembled at Monday evening's performances why in was that she drew all fashionable London to the variety theatre, and why she has been called the streak of lightning. As usual, the programme is a varied yet well- balanced one, and ...

... TH EMPIRE (CARDIFF). There was- -as is generally the case—a well- filled house at the Queen-street Variety Theatre on Monday evening, and the capitally-balanced programme met with general approval, the items all eliciting applause. Best of the turns was ...

... I SCENE AT THE ALHAMBRA. I A panic has been narrowly averted at the Albambra Variety Theatre, London. A lighted cigarette was accidently dropped from the balcony on to the muslin dress worn by a lady in the grand circle. The material ignited, and to the ...

... SCENES. I ICFN-TFTAL NEWS TELEGBAH, I NEW YORK, Saturday.-Early this morning the Theatre Comique and the Grand Central Variety Theatre, Philadelphia, were both burned to the ground. Great excitement was caustd i the vicinity of the theatres by the con ...

... A LADY WOLF-TAMER I ATTACKED. AN EXCITING SCENE IN A THEATRE. I An exciting scene was witnessed last night at a variety theatre in Bolton. Madame Mathern, professional wolf-trainer, entered the cage in which were-nine wolves which she daily puts through ...

... of its periV.rn'.aoces, and is now- like all the halls with which Mr Stoll ia asso ciated, tit to be classed with any variety theatre in the provinces. Fun, without vulgarity, has been one of Mr Stoll's aims, -and, by com- pelling observance of this, be ...

... three celebrated caterers of amusement with instruction. There will be a double menagerie, a circus, hippodrome, and variety theatre, one charge clearing entrance to all, the usual popular admission prices not being increased. Messrs Bostock, Wombwell ...

... scarcely identify his notion in its newest amplitude, there being now added to the collection a circus, hippodrome, and a variety theatre, under one management. Messrs Bo.tock, Wotnbwell, and Bailey are to be having brought their 4iioiv into the very front ...

... criticise the opening night's performance of the Cardiff Empire at the Panopticon Hall. On Monday next the handsome new variety theatre on the old site in Queen-street will ba opened, and though the seating capacity is largely increased, so great a popalarity ...

... to the season and in which not a single artiste falls below the general high standard distinguishing the ^Queen-street variety theatre from the majority of the provincial halls. Last night huge audiences frequently voiced their appreciation of the numerous ...

... princes of burlesque, and Miss Alice Lethbridge, the premier skirt dancer of the day. Mr Lonnen has oniy appeared in one variety theatre besides outside London, where, at the Gaiety and Lyric Theatres, he has earned his laurels. These talented: artistes enacted ...

... its size. Those fortunate to secure sefets were trinted to a pro- gramme hard to equal and not beaten at any provincial variety theatre. Most appreciated was the expensive turn by Lockhart's elephants, the animals generally proving the possession of remarkable ...