... An orchestral and choral concert of considerable importance and interest was given last Saturday afternoon by the students and members of the Guildhall School of Music. Mr Weist Hill conducted, and some of the more advanced pupils dis- played an amount of ability in the highest degree creditable to their own industry and talents, and reflecting lustre also upon the professors who have had the ...

... IVANHOE DR.AMATIC CLUB. Under the patronage of some influential civie personages and attended by a very numerous andaparticularly enthuo siastic audience, the members of the above-named amateur dramatic society gave what they described as a drawing.rosr entertainment at the City of London College, Moorgate-street, on the evening of Friday, the 6th instant. Weako Weieozav Pr Henry J. ...

... M{R. W. A. STANLEY'S RECITA-L. Ol Monday evening last Mr WV. A. Stanley gate a dramatic and humorous recital of selected pieces from Shakespeare aid some of the modern poets and dramatists at the New Room, St. James's Hall. The weather was inimical to a large attendance, and it was unfortunate that the rasm was barely half full. Those few who were present, however, listenedwith evident ...

... Warm weather has naturally affected the attendance at many establishments during the past week, and several managers seem now disposed to shorten their seasons before the close of the month. The ITALIAN OPERA, Covent-garden, is chiefly relying on the attractions of Madame Albani and Madame Adelina Patti. At DISURY-LANE Youth will be played for the last times next week, but Mr Augustus Harris ...

... The formal opening of the Royal College of Music tcok place on Monday, at the college buildings Kensington-gore. The Prince and Princess of Wales, accompanied by the Princes Albert Victor and George, Princess Christian, and the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, and attended by their suite, arrived at the college buildings at Kensington-gore shortly after noon, and were received by Lord Charles ...

... Signs of theatrical activity are now accumulating. The COVENT-GARDEN Promenade Concerts continue to be well patronised, and next week the vocal strength of the programme will be considerably increased. DRURY-LANE has been closed during the entire week, in consequence of the extent of the mechanism required for the new drama of A Sailor and His Lass, which is scow postponed till next Monday. ...

... THE NEW GRAND THE.TRE, BIRM1INGI mm. ~ T.. - -1- o - - H Ti (FhOZ O1~A;, ONV - coRESONDEuNT. i rue spendid trutre erected for Mr A.~ -Melvill in Cor- poration-street, Birmingham, has at leothrot eivt t ing touches, and was oPenei' ge~jreie t finisir. nigt, under the pat~ronage ?? - Cuneda belain, President of the Board of Tr'ade, tl a it,0tlie, Icha of the 6/itc Of thle town and ilioi inbod ...

... Captain Honl. Felix Flapper, R.N.. Mr T. SQUIRE Sir .^lillci Lane, ?? ?? ARTnuR WILLIAMS SuBs]] Taylor . ?? .. . ?? Mr ARNOLD BI)RESOX Christopher Cr~ab ?? Mr J. J. DALLAS ?? IV. WAPrD Ben Barnacle ?? Mr WILLIAM ELTON Arabella Lane ?? Miss ALICE AYsenir Coor Eliza Dabsey ?? ?? Miss HAasUr CONFBSv Susan ?? ?? Miss PEDLEY Phlebe rairleigh ?? ?? Miss LUCILLE MZasoIrrs A generally excellent ...

... THE DRAMA 1N PARIS. , . .. . (FROM 01-UR OWN COntlESrONDENT.) PARIS, THDRSDAY.-GYMNASE.-The noise made about 4utour du M1arifage, the new five-act comedy at this house, has culminated in a somewhat ignominious flash-in-the-pan. The piece is hollow and superficial, without plot or interest, and the dialogue proved far from brilliant. The first night's audience was frigid, and those that have ...

... rticle in this journal a few weeks since we corn- cripd uon the difference in the treatment w. hich l'.;,ill t3 e ricfc, in tie dramatic and the literary ?? l-tlliA ?? our roimarks as regards ele ?? i system of selection in use among many we are induced by a love of flair play to add A~, tv h rtonls en the other side of the question. 'n the arst place it must be sorrowfully admitted that re is ...

... ANOMALIES DRA.MATIC CLUB. The members of the above amateur dramatic club have been devoting such histrionic talent as Heaven hath blessed them with to the entertainment of the nurses of Guy's Hospital. In the governor's court-room-a very handsome apartment in connection with the treasurer's house-which, by the way, was kindly thrown open for the convenience of the players and the guests-a ...

... FIsREN('H DBIAMATIC CRITICS. (Bor PAiISIiAN.) It is seldom that in the same man the various elements which combined together will make a good dramatic critic are to be found. To our idea, that raraa vis must notbe by profession either a poet, a novelist, a journalist, a financier, or a historian; in a word, he must not be a specialist ; he should be at the same time everybody and nobody, an ...