... We suppose DMr Robert Reece must be numbered ameong those happy individuals to whose mental vision everything mundane presents a comical side. In burlesque he certainly appears to be facile princeps, and the playgoisag public owe him not a little gratitude for the many provocations to laughter he has introduced to their notice. Of course he has many detractors among those who decry burlesque, ...

... T HE DRAMA IN PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, THURSDAY.-OPERA COMeQOE.-There is little or nothing to be said of a week devoid of dramatic novelties, gucillg which Paris has been plunged prematurely into aln almol1st tropical heat that has caused all our Theatres to be deserted. At the best of tunes the homes in which we house the Drama here are stuffy and over-heated, but in such a ...

... THIE DRAMA IN AUSTRALIA. ,~- m_.- - ^. .. (PROM OUR OWNYN CORRESPONDENT.) MELBOURNE, APRIL 17, 1577.--TnrEATRr , ROYAL.-Lazar's Italian opera company finished here on the 31st ilt. In addition to the operas named in my last they produced Don Giovanni, Lucia di Lammonermoor, Un Ballo in M11aschera, and Normna; but the season, as a whole, notwithstanding a con- siderable reduction in the prices ...

... MIUSICAL FESTIVALS. It seems hardly possible that twenty years have elapsed since the first Handel Festival, yet it was really in 1857 that the first of these remarkable performances took place, and caused at the time a great sensation in musical circles, since nothing on a similar scale hod, taken place since the great commemoration in Westminster Abbey. How much music in England owes to H ...

... When the appearance is noted of Mvidlie. Ti rsiLe at the GAIETY THEATRE, and the alteration of the pr-ogriammne accord- ingly from grave to gay is duily chronicled, there is little to be said about the West-end establishments, where familiar play- bills are still itrosentod. The summer season at the HAYMARIKET will cotnuenee O15 lotiday next, when Mr Joseph Jefferson, who hiss thit week closed ...

... THsE proceeds of the pianoforte recital given by Anton Rubir- stein, at St. James's Hall, last Saturday afternoon, realised the extraordinary sum of 2617. Such an amount, resulting from the efforts of a single artiste, is altogether without pre- eedent ; yet, notwithstanding the fact that Rubinstein's piano- forte playing increases rather than diminishes in attraction, the artiste declares his ...

... THE ALEXANDRA PALACE H-IORSE SHOW. Noticing could be more favourable then the weather on Tesday last for tleI Horse S1ow lat the Alsxaune d a loc1.:te III most out-of door entertailsoents wve are fain to seek the shelter of a friendly room, but on this occasionl it was 'lot shelter, but shade, that was required. Nothing Was wanting to the suiccess of the show on1 Tuesday. There was a brilliant ...

... MR. E. B. CONWAY'S BENEFIT at the GAIETY A large and fashionable audience was present at the Gaiety Theatre on Thursday afternoon (being, by the way, the three hundred and third of these agreenble ?sotinkes) the occasion being the benefit of Mr H. B. Conway, who chose Shakes- peare's Romneo and Juliet, in which he appeared as the hero. Mr Conway had every reason to be satisfied with. his ...

... Madame Puzzi's annual morning concert, as usual, attracted a very large and fashionable audience, St. George's 1-Tall being completely filled in every part on Monlay. Some of the articles were of the highest rank, and amongst these may be named Madame Trebelli-Bettilni, who was in splendid voice, and sang her very best. Miadame Trobelli-Bettini sang Pensa alla patria, from Rossini's opera ...

... ,-- - I (FROM OUR OWN CORRESFONDENT.) VIENNA, JUNE 9, 1877.-The latest novelty of the season at our Imperial Opera House has been Schubert's comic opera Der Haeusliche Krieg (Domestic War), with a new libretto by M. Wilder, the Parisian dramatic author. The season will terminate at the end of this month, and the next one will beain on the lst of September. The great novelty villbe Rlicngold. ...

... THfI1 D)R.MAI.k IN AUSTRALIA. (FRoMf oui OWN coaRaESrOuxt;lr.NT.) MELBOURNE, APRiL I7, 1877.-TOwN llAiL.-Tle prill- cipal event here has been the appearance of the great cornet player Levy, who created af degree of euthusiasoin e ien surate with his genius. The local critics wvent into extacies over his performances, and exhausted the vocabularies of several languages to give expression to ...

... THIEATRICAL ANECDOTAGE. Who are those imaginative geniuses to whom the task of inventing anecdotes about actors and actresses seems to afford a delight that is inexhaustible ? Cur readers will remember the fictitious story of Macreedly resc:uing a child from fire that annoyed the great trntgedia.n so ninelt, following him across the Atlantic and' cropping up at al sorts of times; an imaginary ...