... . Tiie farcical comedy Twins ib now preceded at the Olympic Theatre by Written in Sand, a comedietta from the pen of Mr. P. W. Broughton. If wo remember rightly, this little lever du riileau owes its plot to a three-act piece by the same author, called Light and Shade, which was produced some time ago at the Imperial. It is none the worse for this, since the main inoident of the story from ...

... . THE Promenade Concerts continue to attract large audiences nightly to Covent Garden Theatre, and on Saturday last 5,012 shilling visitors were admitted, in addition to the numbers by whom the balcony, dress circle, and boxes were thronged. At the preceding classical concert the attendance was almost equally large, and the most respectful attention was paid to the splendid Midsummer Night's ...

... . Miss Waixis, whose season at the Olympic Theatre comes to an end this week, presented herself last Saturday as Juliet, a character which every young actress of ambition is bound to attempt at one time or another without much regard to the probability of her sucoess. Miss Wallis is not specially well suited to the part, since her manner is altogether too staid for the natural exposition of ...

... . MM. Sabdott and Najac's comedy Divor^ons, in which Mme. Chaumont scored one of her most popular successes, was essen tially a piece d' occasion, and has lost most of its raison d'etre now that a Divorce Bill is no longer under discussion in France. It will he recollected that its hero, the cynically philosophic M. Des Prunelles, whose wife seems to he in love with her cousin Adhemar, ...

... . Why the management at Toole's Theatre thought it worth while to imperil the success of such a witty little piece as Faust and Loose by thrusting it before the public in an unprepared state we cannot profess to understand. Better a postponement even at the last moment than a performance which gave so bad a first impression as did the premiere of Mr. Burnand's smartly written and cleverly ...

... . The Galley Slaxe, by Mr. Bartley Campbell, which has been played during the week at the Grand Theatre, Islington, is an odd medley of melodrama and comedy, or what is intended for comedy. For educated audiences it is but poorly fitted, nor is it a fair specimen of the robust drama which delights transpon tine and eastern playgoers. Yet it has a certain go and dash, which secure for some of ...

... THE musical season, which opened in January last with a series of Promenade Concerts at Her Majesty's Theatre, closed last Saturday, with the final performance of the short season of Italian Opera at Covent Garden, and the time has come when it may be found interesting and profitable to review the musical history of the seven months which terminate to-day. ...

... MUSIC. CARL ROSA OPERA COMPANY. DURING the past seven days two additions have been made to the repertory of the current operatic season at Her Majesty's Theatre. Respecting Balfe's perennial work, The Bohemian Girl, nothing needs saying, but praise is due to the general ex cellence of the ensemble presented by the Carl Rosa Company. Owing to the absence of Mr. Packard, through indisposition, ...

... . THE seventeenth Metropolitan Horse Show was opened at Islington on Saturday, when, if the total of entries was slightly less than on some previous occasions, the quality of the exhibits, as a whole, was certainly above the average. The hunters' classes were particularly strong and numerous, no less than 100 animals had been entered for competition in this section alone; the park hacks, ...

... . I SUPPOSE everybody was at the Derby last week. I went down at the invitation of Thespis, who had his cart there, and a very nice cart it was. Mrs. Thespis and one of the little Thespises, and a few Thespian friends made the thing exceedingly pleasant. I had intended making a sketch of Thespis and his cartload, but I really lost so much to the glory of St. Sweepstake that I lost heart. I ...

... . ALTHOUGH Forget Me Not is in some ways not so well suited for a small stage as for a largo one, it is a play which when adequately represented commands a hearty welcome anywhere from those capable of appreciating strong and ambitious dramatic work. In default, therefore, of a good new comedy-- and good new comedies are very scarce-- upon the scale best fitted for a bandbox theatre, Mr. Edgar ...

... SIR CHARLES YOUNG'S capital drama Jim the Penman evidently interested Islirgton playgoers very much on its presentation at the Grand the other day. As we pointed out on its original production at the Haymarket, it is a very clever piece of dramatic workmanship, and narrowly misses being one of the great plays of the day. Its great defect lies of course in the failure to illustrate in action ...