... AMATEUJRS AT BOAW. The Byron Dramatic Club inaugurated their season by a private subscription dramatic performance on Monday evening last at the large hall of the Bow and Bromley Institute. There as a very large audience, who seemed highly pleased with the performance of the comedy-drama chosen, Mr Wybert Reeve's Parted, an English love story in four acts, long enough in all conscience, in ...

... 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 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 ...

... 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 ...

... The first regular meeting of the members of this lodge after the successful ?? was held on Tuesday last at the Masonic Hall, Hope-street, Liverpool. Interest in the proceedings of yearly initial meetings is always very prominent in the Dramatic, and on this occasion the brethren must have felt especially gratified in witnessing the highly satisfactory manner in which the new Worshipful ...

... ' An Oriiial Modern Play, in Three Acts, rrittc11 by btiss Wallis and J. W. Boulding Ceilt Trali Lailil:oi .Mltr C. VANDENIIOFF IQ,,icur Zeol? . Mr Louis CALVERT I toester ..tuele ..sltiM Mr C. AirNOID or ,Wi ?? Fairfax .M.. ?? Mr I. H. PENrNINcToN ;ydor ?? . Master GRsrAN - ?? ?? ?? E. A. ELrON a ?? . Mr G. S. STEVENS j.M a ?? iss WALLIS sianriaa ..M ?? MiSS MARIE GLTNNE Mida aznllO. Olga ?? ...

... Dr. Ingleby's recent pamphlet entitled Shakespeare's Bones, in which he advocates the opening of the poet's tomb in Stratford Church, has brought to mind again an article which appeared several years ago in the Argosy, in which it narrated in the most circumstantial manner, and under that title, How Shakespeare's Skull was stolen. Dr. Ingleby admits that but forthe povertyof the ...

... On Wednesday, October 3d, the Romantic Play (translated from the German of Schiller), 'MARY STUART. Mary Stuart.~~Madams ELLmENREIOIO Mary Stuart -i ?? MissLume WLE1..3SBC queen Elizabeth.Miss LOUISE WLL.ES Hannah Kenmedy. Miss ETHEL HOPE Margaret Crl. ?? Miss O'REILLY Sir Edward Mortmer ?? Mr F. H. MACRLIN Dudley .Mr J. A. ResicR ?? ..Mr E. F. EDGAR Cecil ?? ?? Mr A. T. HILTON ?? br PALMER ...

... MR. and MRS. GERMAN REED'S ENTERTAINMENT, On Monday evening there were two novelties introduced at St. George 's Hall for the amusement of a large audience. The first was a new musical sketch by Mr Corney Grain, with the attractive title On the Thames, and the second a new afterpiece entitled A Water Cure. The first part still remains in the programme, and it is one of the most agreeable ...

... Tue ,grince and Princess of Wales witnessed the performance ,f gsnuesa1 at the Lyceum on Saturday evening, his Royal hy;lens expressing the opinion that lie had never seen a more >olgt or a more artistic impersonation than that of tel~elia- Ojn the fall of the curtain Miss Mary Anderson rsrtspecial desire of their Royal Higulnesses presented to ti'cY rinees il tikr Irvinig's room, where they ...

... LA VIE AT THE AVENUE, Operatic Buorlesque, in Three Acts, after M jilhac (,I, (A tbr t antc IvMu ffenare h Written by Mr. H. B. Farnie, LA VIE. Tle Piron VOn (ondiestnarekc ?? Mr LIONEL BaorTon lien. 'loin siiterbarrc ?? HERBERT STANDING ItonG ?? . Mr FORBES DRUMNIOND .odGl~lvr~n.. Mr A. WIIEAT.mAN, stir . , ?? r R. J. WALDERRAVE Iol;obstlCk . M Mr C. HUNT mr miggls . - Mr ERNEST ...