... CLAUDIAN.-31R. WILSON BARRETT. The production of a play which is wholly English, which is sound, vigorous, and elevating in sentiment and dramatic pur- pose, and which, moreover, is written in a vein of poetic diction worthy to rank as literature, is a very considerable event in the life of the English stage. Such a play is Claudian. It is usually assumed that a debased stage means a corrupt ...

... The twentieth performance, which this society has given since its institution in 1878, was held on the 20th inst. at St. George's Hall, under the patronage of the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress, and for the sake of the excellent charity in whose cause it was held-the University College Hospital-we are glad to record that it was well attended. The first piece on the programme was Mr Maddison ...

... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Following on the success which attended the production of the Ajax of Sophocles last year, the committee responsible for that performance decided to give the Birds of Aristophanes. The pantomimic effects which necessarily attend a Greek comedy renders its performance in these modern times a some- what hazardous experiment; but those who had their doubts as to the ...

... (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) NOVEMBER 20.-The coming lnternational Show has hitherto caused but very little excitement in the City of Palaces, although we have the large cattle sheds styled the Exhibition building daily growing up in our midst, and the roads and tramways blocked up with huge cases from enterprising foreign exhibitors. But suddenly we are aroused from our apathy, not by an ...

... The approach of the Christmas holiday season is, as usual, indicated by changes in many of the theatrical programmes. Next week will close the career of A Sailor and His Lass at DRURY-LANE, in order to enable the requisite preparations to be made for the forthcoming pantomime. The new comedy of Lords and Commons, produced at the HAYMARKET, has benefited by some judicious compression. In the ...

... I MR. & MIRS. GERMAN REED'S ENTERTAINMENT. On Monday evening a new first part was produced for the admirable entertainment provided by Messrs Alfred Reed and Corney Grain at St. George's Hall. It is the joint production of Mr Arthur Law and Mr Alfred J. Caldicott, the former being responsible for the libretto and the latter gentleman having composed the music. It is entitled A Moss Rose Rent, ...

... TIE DRAMA IN PARIB. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) NANA SAIB. PARIS, TRUH SDAY.-PORTE ST. MARTIN.-The mere title of MI. Jean Richepin's piece suffices to render it repulsive to an English spectator, and I confess it was with no little misgiving, and, perhaps, with a certain loathing, that I looked forward to the necessity which might be forced on me of having to treat as a patriot and a hero ...

... (kustsin OUR OWN CORRrESPONDENT.) After lengthy and arduous preparations, anid a close week for rehearsal, all the Glasgow theatres-the Grand, Gaiety, Royalty, and Princess's-are now presenting their annual pantomimes to large audiences. . Three of the theatres, including M~r S. WV. Charles's establishment, the Royalty, and the Princess's, opened on Saturday last, and the Gaiety on Monday, ...

... (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDINTS,) ABERDEEN. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.-Lessee, Mr W. M'Farland; General Manager, Mr Hodges.-Preparing for the pantomime, Cinderella. M1TARLAND'S Music HALL. -Miss Lizzie Watson, comedy artist; Mons. Vallo, Pedeologist; Wynn Howard, ventriloquist; Sterling Gould, comic; and Pat Rafferty, Irish business, have joined the com- pany here. ACCRINGTON. PRINCE'S THEATRE. ...

... LONDON PAVILION. MR SAm ADAMS's BENEFIT.-The gentleman named above, by his unfailing courtesy and his ever-present geniality, has made for himself a host of friends, and we were by no means surprised to find the hall where he works so well to promote the comfort and enjoyment of the visitors well filled, even at greatly enhanced prices, on the evening of Tuesday last, when he took his annual ...