... . For a week previous to its production at the Olympic Theatre an Irish drama described as new and modern, and ominously entitled The Eviction, has been produced at the Messrs. Douglass's large and handsome theatre. The Eviction, which has, we believe, won considerable success in the South of Ireland, is by Mr. Hubert O' Grady, who, with his wife, takes an important share in the ...

... . No one could say that it was very rude to describe the Mastodon Minstrels as the biggest placards in the world. Certainly, in dear, happy England we have never had such an eruption of many-coloured wall posters of enormous growth, and of a highly; artistic workmanship. The walls of London have been resolved into a huge Ethiopian picture gallery, and like most exhibitions of a pictorial kind ...

... . THE performance of Mignon at Her Majesty's Theatre this evening will bring to a close the London season of the Carl Rosa Opera Company, and if-- as it is announced-- Mr. Carl Rosa conducts the closing representation of the season, its ter mination will be more cheerful than its commencement. At the beginning of the season, and indeed until a very recent date, there seemed to be little ...

... MUSIC. HER MAJESTY'S OBERA. During the last fortnight only two additions have been made to the repertory of the season at Her Majesty's Opera. In the title-character of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia Mine. Zacchi made a decided advance in public favour, both as vocalist and actress. Ressini's comic masterpiece, II Barbiere di Siviglia, intro duced Mile. Elisa Widmar, as Rosina. Signor Aldighieri, ...

... . Plain English. by Johx Hollingshead. London Chatto Windus, Piccadilly, 1880. JOHN HOLLINGSHEAD, theatrical manager and ex-journalist, has for the nonce returned to his former calling, and under the simple and appropriate title, Plain English, gives to the world the results of his effort. Most of the papers which make up the present volume have been seen before in various periodicals, but ...

... . Mr. Charles Holland, who controls the fortunes of the Surrey during its summer season, has gone in for a form of entertain ment not very usual at theatres such as this. As a rule, bur lesque does not seem to flourish much except amongst the frivo lous playgoers of the West-end. It is looked upon with dis trust by the serious-minded patrons of a drama in which battle and murder and sudden ...

... . With a somewhat sudden wrench the attention of the patrons of Sadler's Wells Theatre is now diverted from the dramatic and vocal melange, entitled Otto the German to the famous comedy, She Stoops to Conquer. It is wholly unnecessary to point out how decidedly the change is for the better many contemporary productions, indeed, which are far more pretentious than Otto would he advantageously ...

... . Tiie revival at the Surrey Theatre of Messrs. Pettitt and Conquest's Grecian sensational drama, The Royal Pardon cr i/le House on the Cliff, is tho occasion for the first appearance here of a player described as the great Australian actor. This gentleman proves to be a Mr. Alfred Dampier, of whom we had not before board. He is a good actor of his class is well up in his business, and ...

... . I hough there is perhaps room for regret that Mr. and Mrs. Bancroft have not begun their new season at the Haymarket with a new production, it is easy to understand that School should yet retain its place on the programme. The charm of that nineteenth century fairy story has by no means faded. The scene in the woodland glade where the girls sing their chorus, the sportsmen eat their luncheon ...

... DRAMA. SADLER'S WELLS THEATRE. It is not easy for a manager whose object is to give a perpe tually varied entertainment at his theatre to keep up to any thing like a level average merit in his productions. The difficulty of accomplishing this is now experienced by Mrs. Bateman, who cannot he conscientiously congratulated upon following up her interesting presentation of The Midsummer Night's ...

... Alhaaibra.- Mme. Katti Lanner's six young lady pupils who made such a great success in America and at Her Majesty's Theatre in Signor Arditi's valse Pes Belles Viennoise, are engaged to appear at the Alhambra, commencing on Saturday next, July 17th. The Dramatic College. On the 22nd inst. Messrs. Fare- brother, Lye, and Palmer will sell by auction, at Tokenhouse- yard, the freehold of the ...

... . The only recent inoident worthy of note in connection with the Royal Italian Opera was the production, on Saturday last, of Fstella, an Italian version of Les Bleuets, a French comic opera by M. Jules Cohen. The original work, produced several years ago at the Theatre Lyrique, Paris, never became popular in France the Italian adaptation is little likely to become popular in this country, and ...