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ART AND LITERARY GOSSIP

... has been dramatised by the author. The Vokes family, during many consecutive years a chief support of the pantomime at Drury Lane, will this year appear at Her Majesty's Theatre in a Christmas entertainment entitled ;Little Red Riding Hood. ...

MUSICAL NOTES

... suffered from this oppression in the composition of his opera, I The Canter- bury Pilgrims, which is to be produced at Drury Lane Theatre by Mr. Carl Rosa next week. The writer of the libretto is Mr. Gilbert A'Beckett. The rumour goes that Dvorak has ...

MUSICAL NOTES

... the Troubadour, and now its title is simply The Troubadour. Mr. M ackenzie's opera is to be produced by Mr. Rosa at Drury- lane on the 8th proximo. In the prospectus of his metropolitan season, Mr. Rosa points out that he has in eleven years produced ...

ART AND LITERARY GOSSIP

... death is announced, at an advabced age, I of Brs. Bunn, nee Somerville, the widow of Mr. Alfred Y Buni, .formerly manager of Drury Lane and Covent 14 Garden Theatres. She at one period occupied a promi. r nent position on the stage, sometimes playing with ...

LITERARY SELECTIONS

... Ciloatho, ilk Sergeant TIaliourd'sl1 Ion. After Mr. Hammnoiid'sE bankruptcy, Mr. Macready, in 18-11, bec~ame lesseeoof Drury Lane, and XisIs 1-iolo T'aucit leading lady. Sheoulayodiu Mr. Browning's undriamatic poem, ''1The Blot in the Scuteheun,' anid ...

THE THEATRES

... Comedy Theatre on Monday, and made a distinctly favourable impression. It comes with an eieellent reputation from the Royal, Drury Lane, whero it was produned with special regard to seonic as well as to dramaticeffect. The members of the company intrnsted ...

ART AND LITERARY GOSSIP

... Queene's Majestie, Queens Anne), who, it F says, had recently removed from the Red Bull, Clerken- well, to the Cockpit, Drury Lane. d d STPANGE CONDUCT OF AN ENGLISHMAN IN I PARis.-A young Englishman has been convicted by V the Paris Tribunal of wantonly ...

MUSICAL NOTES

... would have thought that after the recent indication the Queen gave of a desire to encou- rage native art, by nang a box at Drury- lane for the Rosa season, her Majesty would admit native compositions to the programm es of the State concerts and dinners. ...

MUSICAL NOTES

... in constant attendance upon him. At the close of the circular in which he makes known his intentions for his season at Drury- lane, which commenced on Monday, Mr. Rosa says that his enterprise isof national importance, and nobody will dispute its claim ...

CUTTINGS FROM THE COMIC PAPERS

... Two Dicuuts.-Tho rtuie of General Drury Lowe, who is SO distinguishirig hiirirelt in Egypt, iri vitably srmgglsta that of Drury Lane. There is, tir, ii real resetrbrblanc between thorn, for behl the irrer s 9 exhibit- a very fine spectuclo of P/rrcd. ~el ...

ART AND LITERARY GOSSIP

... the last week, and the season, t so far as such a thing exists, is practically at an end tc The re-opening this evening of Drury Lane (an event usually fixed for September), the re-appearance of the Gaiety company on Monday, and the production on the same ...

Cuttings from the Comics

... as for trying to Play off that Old Joke unorn him.- Smart Young Lady (as they take their places': r,Now, I have seen the Drury Lane Pantomime, I've i been to Barnum's Show, we went to Teaby this sum. mer, I've read Besant's last novel, I'm fond of 1 dancing ...