... know. If ghosts can speak we don't see why they are all to speak like bassi profonde. We occasionally have read stage directions in plays, laughs like a fiend ; according to present practice there should be a stage direction, speaks like a ghost. Heaven ...

... Gloucester festival, La Drance Afusicale gives us a curious example of French inability to spell English names. O r contemporary speaks of Sines Reeves, Lewis Thomer, Santluy, and Dr Wesley. The opening spectacle at the Th6atre Lyrique will, it is expected, ...

... reprinted a rare pamphlet, first pub- lished in 1605, entitled I La Chemise sanglante de Henry le Grand,' in which the dead king speaks to Louis XIII like the ghost in Hamlet, and reproaches his son for not having avenged his death. He, too, points his words ...

... only in their sweet voices and good training; but in their being actors who could sing as well as act, and singers who could speak as welL as chant. We cannot say as much for all our coun- trymen and women who take part in opera. If a stranger to the composition ...

... as we cannot compare their enter- tainments with those not yet seen, it will not be fair to say much of them until we can speak of all impartially. Let it be enough then now to say that the D3uRiY LANE pantomime of Sindbad the Sailor is a capital children's ...

... phrase, to give fair scope to the ability of an actress whose quick iervous perception animates more or less every word she speaks. It needs a series of such plays for the fair development of all her powers. Miss Terry has some of the finest qualities of ...

... difficulty to be contended with that a stage ghost never knows how to speak. There needs either the special qualification Booth is said to have had, or an actor as good as the best Hamlet, to speak the ghost's part perfectly. It is no sign of Shakespeare having ...

... through the galleries picking up sound knowledge at every step. As probably there was no choice in the matter, we do not speak of it as a fault, but as a fact, that the collection, which undoubtedly includes a large number of portraits of the very highest ...

... fitting eloquence of form; here and there perhaps a word lives, but not every word, not any line throughout. When Mr Phelps speaks we hear Byron thinking; when Mr Ryder answers we hear him very ably reciting Byron's verse. The sense of this differ- ence ...

... promise, he argued, was implied in his, and he should break his word, in the spirit if not in the letter, if he suffered her to speak for him; besides she, too, -was bound to be both tender and heroic. This sort of story is so worked out, with help of a plotting ...

... week speak of it fully. Din orah also has been acted at this house, with aille. Patti as the heroine, and the usual rap- tures of dramatic criticism waited upon her performance. r With all deference to our enthusiastic neighbours, we must speak as we ...

... Arthur and Bertrand, who appeared in an independent performance on Christmas eve at the A-DELPHI, it will be most convenient to speak next week, when we can give our own opinion upon Panto- mimes and Burlesques that were produced last night for the first time ...