... LS. THE OXFORD. Here' Mr Jennings has provided a wonderfully strong com- pany, and there is not the slightest doubt that all lovers of the sensational will, ere long, be busily engaged in talking of Lur- line, the aquatic marvel, who has recently made her first appearance amongst us. Lurlino has a curious history. It has been made partly by herself and partly by the Oxford manager, who has ...

... At Hastings, on Saturday, the Mayor presided at a meeting held in support of the movement founded by the Prince of Vales for the establishment of a national college of music. Sir Thomas Brassey was unable to attend through pressure of Parliamentary duties, but wrote sympathising with the move- ment. Dr. Groves explained the aims and objects of the school, which he said was not intended only to ...

... PROM1 OUR OWN CORRESPONrDENT. PARIS, THURSDAY.-FrANCAIS.-The most distinguished audience of the season assembled on Monday night at our first theatre to witness the first performance of Alfred de Musset's Barbeine. It was no revival of one of the poet's pieces, as might well be supposed, but its original production. The comedy, as it is styled, is familiar to all readers as, perhaps, the most ...

... DOGGETTS COAT AND TBDGE. An actor who has succeeded in keeping his name before the London public for about one hundred and fifty years may be well remembered as one whose history deserves to be recorded in the columns of The Era. Eltham Church was taken down and rebuilt in 1874, bit only in the register, which dates from 1583, is there any mention of his name in association with the place. A ...

... TEE LONDON PAVILION. Mr EdAwin Villiers offers to the patrons of this popular music hall, who are not to be numbered by any ordinary standard, a programme which it would be difficult to excel ; and he is to be warmly congratulated upon the entertainment pre- aented here, which affords most ample testimony of his enter- prise as a speculator and his tact as a manager. To include in the ...

... INNOCENTS ABROAD. (FROAM OUR LIVERPOOL CORRESPONDENT.) The names of blr J. F. M'Ardle, a popular author in connec- tion with all that is lively and entertaining, and ir WV. R. Jude, a musical composer with more than local fame, were suf- ficent to stir an amount of interest in the first performance of the new operetta entitled Innocents Abroad; or, Going Over to Rome, which has not been ...

... TIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The second cycle of the Nibelungen Ring concludled on TueF- day last at Her Majesty's Theatre with the expected result that the audiences were smaller than at the first series. The prices charged were, in fact, very high, when it is remembered that the performnance could only be regarded as an experiment. There are other works of Wagner which have been already accepted ...

... oil I'liciay, July 4th, for the First Titnc oel any Siagc, il y ?? Opera VELLEDA. Vellidis ?? ., Alivlawc AsDErIlA PATTI l .a Midatle VALLFRIA Even ?? ?? dILe; STAuLI, Una, Doinna tol a a Millse. GlleOTT Una Sacerdotess.. . l Mlle. LONATI Teeter .Signor COTOoNI Sce.nosin gnor DIC ReeEst 11 ?? nobs. DAUPuiIN Un Capo Rcomano . . Signor SAnATER Celio ?? _or NICOLINI A large and brilliant ...

... . An amateur dramatic performance given on Thursday night 20thinst.,atthe ?? an abrupt and very painful conclusion by an incident which came within an ace of entailing consequences far more serious than the mere dispersal of the audience. The local Literary and Dramatic Society on that evening were playing Maddison Morton's farce Whitebait at Greenwich, and Gilbert's three-act comedy On Guard, ...

... As iucideuts of the early earcer of noted actors, such as Mr Irving anud Dlr Tunioo, are much coveted just now (says a corres. ponldellt of a Northern contemporary), I may mention the following rclating to tile first-mnctioned gentleman. When I knew bhit as a stock actor at EdInburghl his efforts were not certainly fully pnmlseciated by the playgoers of modern Athens altholigh I cann]ot agice ...

... FRACA3 IN A MUSIC HALL. At SoutlIwaVr PolicC-court on Friday, Jokn All'Ueian, aged twenty-sight, described as a booliaciler, was charged before Mr Sbla(e with assaulting Police-constable Larkin, 228 L, by strik;ing him oil the face with a broken glass at Gatti's Music I-fall, \xrstmulster-hrulge-road. The comphlainant stated that lie assd1 another constable nalsied North wsst in plain clothes ...

... I The inaugural meeting and entertainment of this new estab- lished society took place on Wednesday evening, at Anderton's Hotel, Fleet-street, and attracted a large gathering. Mr G. J. Rayner opened the ball with a well-played pianoforte solo, and was followed by Air Scott, of the Brooke Dramatic Club, who recited ITHans lretmann's Party. Then came Mr Newton, of the Ariel Club, with the ...