... ELEPHANT AND CASTLE TIIEEATRE. TO THE EDITOR Or TUE ERA. Shir,-My attention has just been called to a letter in your last week's issue, signed John Aubrey, Lessee and Manager, which I feel myself, as the person referred to in such letter, bound to answer, in the first place, by stating that such letter is a complete misrepresentation of facts from beginning to end. The facts ate simply as ...

... The personation of Lady Teazle, observes an intelligent critic, ' has been supposed to be one of extreme delicacy, and although we seldom find an actress of a certain grade who does not thiltk herself fully equal to the task, yet the fastidious lover of good acting is very apt to require a lady of personal attractions, of good judgment, and of elegant manners; and he repudiates the flippant ...

... Mr Walter Gooch must by this time have auided his name to the list of Managers who have learned by dearly bought expe- rience that the revival of old pieces which, having stood the test of public representation anid have not been found wanting, is a far more remunerative game than the production of new works that run the risk of being unceremoniously condemned upon the first night, or of ...

... IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO MEND. TO TIE - DiaITOR OF THE ERA. Sir;,-For three an4d twenty years the public has revered the crhalaclter of Francis Elden, and, therefore, I wlho creatI dmhi mnust be more thnll milortal if I didl nut admtire hita too. The other day someb1oy stated in T/m/fmEo, that this justly revered character was niot original, but taken from ?? MrA Ambrose Shlerwin, as he ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE ERA. Sir,-In your last week's impression Messrs A. and S. Gatti, the present Managers of Covent-garden Theatre, have read with much surprise a letter beaded as above, written by Stella. They have desired me to answer same. The letter contains one tissue of misrepresentations, whether wilfully made or through ignorance of the facts, they know not. The writer states that ...

... CLOSING OF DRURY-LANE THEAITRE. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4TI1, 1375. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ERA. Sir,-My attention having been drawn to a letter concerning the sudden closing of Drury-lane, written by Mr Frederic Yokes, that appeared in your Journal of Saturday last, the 8th inst., it is imperative that I should answer it by a state- ment of facts, strictly truthful. My first knowledge of the monetary ...

... MR. IEpMAN AIERIVALE'S COMPLAINV. Dramatic Authors bave, Ivithoilt doubt, suany grievances the world is not altogether perfect and it would be no easy matter to find out a single indiridnal who was thoroughly and completely contented, hut the objectio containe e ine as lthtr recently quoted in these colfuis ce s-13' the last that could he expected to come from the pen of a playwright. In his ...

... Mr. Sam Elague and his Complimentary Dinner. Some suggestive evidence was given before Lord Justice Thesiger, on Wednesday, in a case which bad Mr Sam Hague, the celebrated Minstrel chief, for defendant, and the Liverpool Adelphi Hotel Company as plaintiffs. The suit arose out of certain doings of the St. James's Club, from which Mr Hague withdrew his countenance because certain members had ...

... -- F II E, R M A8' () N Pt Y. GRAND LODGIE OF MARM ...

... Ounl thoughts have turned Pariswards during the week. And why? The answer is obvious, a Grand Lottery and a new President. Everyone secretly in his own heart thought that his slyly purchased ticket would win a prize. The wife saw in imagination the necklace of diamonds hanging about her maternal neck. A husband longed for a cup of tea poured from the prize tea-service. Every morning when the ...

... In spite of an exception at the present time which may be very truly cited against onr statement, we most unequivocally express our belief that Tragedy never had a, worse chance with audiences than that which seems to await it, in the proximate future. Of course the caprice of public taste, the impersona- tion that attracts by its naturalness and awes by its intensity, such as was witnessed in ...

... F It El E MA A S 0 N .1 ?? ROYAL MASONIC BESNEVOLENT INSTITUTION, The antiqul festival of this Institution was held onl Wed1esday eVeit- fog at Freemasons' Tavern, under the presidency of Br LE GsNURE N. STARKIE, Provincial Gratid Master forl East Lancv.sl~iive. There. was avery larges anseoshlage of Brethren and Grand Officers, among1 Whom were C.olonel Creaton, Sir Heniry' tdidvord, Pros'. G ...