... THE STAGE. LMR. SIMS REEES'S FAREWELL. The following are the lines (written for the occa- sion by Mr. ?? H. Pollock) which Mr. Henry Irving spoke at Mr. Sims Reeves's farewell concert at the Royal Albert Ball, London, on Monday night:- Oft have these ...

... THE STAGE. 111011 THE FOOTLIGHTS. (From our Cornrow:loll.) WE shall presently to complain of the multitude of our amusements. They are multiplying with peel. Mealy alarming rapidity. y Monday next we shall have two circuses going full time, in addition ...

... is the only thing . you can get from attending one of these functions: As long as costume and spectacle are on the stage a manager may depend on a fair muster In front. The moment a big set is closed in by a front cloth an exodus takes place, and then ...

... unusuall large audience gathered together in the anticipation of a programme of great attractiveness. Mr. Cross does much to keep alive the popular interest in Handel's mlusic. The choruses of Samson, which move in the massive and melodious manner charateristio ...

... and there a funny scng or bright bit of orahesttation, and once a ohamng change (A scene-the interest is kept alive throughout. M, Hugh Aloss may be cnsplimented for the pretty settin i of the piece as Tauch as Mr. Freeruick.Bowyer and Mr. n W. E. Sprange ...

... through its second reading stage, though after that stage the Central News has eon to believe that ianntes wailbe seed.T Chancellor of the Eachequer is advised that he can aerry the second reading ftage of the Bill, thougi tifme may not permit of it going ...

... have alienated and weakened the one gieat Power which chiefly interested in keeping the sick man alive. Once again, as the days immediately preceding the Crimean war, there is urgent need of firmness and decision on the part of the German Powers. ...

... THE STAGE. DIARY OF ENTERTAINMENTS. Theatre linsat.— Pcsat. ac Calsbrated Priars'a Theatre —Vmtnen Queen's Tbeatre.— Tbe Survivor. (*lusty of Var'etisa—alr. W. J. Ashcroft, Ira Voy. Leclerc'. So., and Variety Company. Alexandra Mune —Powerful ...

... ht-foner.a xf series of scones more or lose ele.ly onn-erned if ntile turf, and it may be fairly ad mitted ththat ir- . re;t onee ?? thp aieds suafed it, it thoroughly alive, although 1)y hr -s tiha' arC amore expedient ?? atistie. It is this otsnata o ntt-rest ...

... A STAGE MANAGER ON STAGE COSTUMES. In reply to the Lord Chamberlain'$ elreular, Mr. George J. Vining, lessee and manager of ?? Theatre, has sent a letter to Lord Syduey, in which he says: For some years I have neither produced pantomine nor bur. lesqueat ...

... 'hc Ambassador would lbe a Letter work if it had stronger situations, more of that human interest whbieh keeps the attention rivetted to the stage. There is never even an approach to excitement, for tile end of the little episode of Vivian Beauvedere, ...

... generally. Here and there a coMpany may a▪ doisg tolerably well; but in tbe mein, things Ldvsptan may be described as horribly Al an instance of how shocking it is possible 1 7 cI L9s11y bad theatrical business to be, even in may tell you that ODO evening last ...