... Unusual theatrical activity has this year to be noticed in the early weeks of December, and the visitors to the forthcoming Cattle Show will find ample preparations for their reception made by our enterprising managers. The most notable events in the dramatic calendar of the week are the production of the romantic play of Claudian at the PnRNCEss's and the opening of the new ALHAMBRA, ...

... A dramatic performance, under the direction of Miss Kate Osborne, was given on Wednesday evening in the large public hail at Croydon. There was not a large audience, the hall being scarcely half filled; but a small number of faithful adherents cax, if so determined, get up a great deal of enthu- siasm, and there was evidently the disposition to accept the efforts of the performers with all ...

... Only recently, in speaking of the entertainment given at the Egyptian Hall by Messrs Maskelyne and Cooke, we had to tell of a wonderful skeleton, a gibbering thing, all bones, that played antics with its frame, and caused the spectators sitting in the dark to laugh and creep by turns. The wonder- workers named are, however, apparently never tired of search- ing for some new tising wherewith ...

... JUVENILE - ACP, BATS. T- ah,- I T ~ ?? . T v. In the House of Lords on Frdy 3d h Ei SHIAFTESBURY Called the attentlois of thl5 - ?? operation of the Act of 1879- ilittlle vermlent tot Dangerous Performances Act. He sad led Chldre2 dsusthe principle of the Act, that had Ief ';;tetd to naerely to refer to details connlected W-th th mattirer. ?? a bill was passed by the Goermeti theater 1~ilu ...

... On Thursday an arbitration between the Metropolitan Board of Works and Mr Alt, the proprietor of the Canterbury Music Hall, as to structural alterations required to be made in the tall came ?? H. Hunt, C0B., at the Institution of Surveyors, Winsnster. Mr Meadows White, Q.C., appeared for the Board of Works, and Air Pollard for Mr Alt. There were in all eighteen requisitions, nearly all of ...

... Again Miss Braddon tempts the novel reader with one of her pleasant fictions, as usual, readable from first to last, for the accomplished and popular writer does not now depend as of old upon the interweaving of elaborate plot, but her descrip- tions of beautiful scenery, her careful and elaborate studies of character, and the many shrewd and satirical comments on modern society with which she ...

... Sir Charles Young has written some good plays that deserve' to be more widely known, and For Her Child's Sake, which was the first piece given by the above society on Tuesday even-, ing at St. George's Hall, is one of these. This one-act dra- matic episode, as it pleases the author to call it, concerns the love of Aubrey Verechoyle for Geraldine Ormonde, but the interest of the play is ...

... -THE ROYAL. Mr Purkiss, thle popular proprietor of this popular hall, may be congratulated on tile fact that the fine weather we are just now enjoyinig has nlot in any way injuriously affected the patronage given to thle entertainments lie provides. The public seem to'have discovered for themselves that this is a-bout thee coolest of iiidoor places of amusement, the said coolness, of course, ...

... In the exhibition of the Royal Academy this year will be found a portrait of Mrs Kendal in Tenllyson's play The Falcon. It is painted by Mr Val Prinsep, one of the Associates of the Royal Academy, and is a commission from a member of the Garrick Club, who intends to present it to that institution. AWle wish we could say that the portrait in any way did justice to the original, but ...

... THEAT RICAL CT OSSIP. OUIt readers rill he interested in learning that Miss Mary Dick-es, eldest gravidchild of the late Charles Dickens, the irmmiortal novelist, and elaeste daughter of the present Mr Charles Dickens, is ahout to join the theatrical profession. .qiss iDickens, who bis seen nineteen summers, will make her first ayppacaritcU on the stage on the evening of Thiursilay next atithe ...

... THE OLD CHANGE DRIAMATIC CLUB. Whatever is attempted by the above-named amateur dramatic club is always done so carefully and so well that the pro- ceedings at their annual performance, in aid of the Warehouse- men and Clerks' School for Orphans and Necessitous Children, given at the Imperial Theatre on the evening of Friday, the 14th inst., enlisted more than usual interest. As is ...

... LS. VtROm OuIR OIVN CORIRESPONDENTS.) A (7G1INGTON. PRINru'.S THEATRss.-Propriotor, AMr J. B. Ormcrod.-NOssrs Ellis and Pitt's company are here this week with the farcial comedy Mo??ed flfniter'.s; or, Three Blind If ite, in which the austhor, Mir C. Harley, and Mr C. Campell shine, thcir efforts evoking much applause. A~SHTON. PEroL'eSo OPERA HfousB.-Losocs, Messrs WV. Rcvill and Son Manager, ...