... while addressing personages on the stage, keep their eyes fixed upon the audience in front, so that they are in reality speaking to the other characters of the play with their backs turned towards them. This old-fashioned guide to the stage has much ...

... course, they do and should. What we contend is that neither want of knowledge of the time, nor unexpectedness, and, so to speak, unreasonableness in the action, nor loftiness in the motive, in the least repel an English audience if eonly in addition to ...

... standard favourite, awhile his surroundings are equally interesting. Of the transformation scene it is scarcely necessary to speak in detail. As on former occasiens, Mr Brunton avoids conventionality. There is no tinsel. Having conceived a poetic idea, be ...

... prominent ornament of the lyric stage. Or Mdlle. Marsy's d6but at the Frangais in the ?? of Celimhne in Le ?? I am not disposed to speak so well. The young lady carried off the first prize ic Comedy at last summer's Conservatoire contests, after a stay of only ...

... at all times be a sure draw. Changes il the company since the first visit have been but few, and of these we arc sabde to speak most favourably. Alir A. Bucklaw proves himself a most able representative of the cool, calculating, gentlemanly scoundrel ...

... and during the muggy and unseasonable weather of the week just past crowds ot holiday folk have thronged the building. In speaking of the Aquarimf the name of Mr Farmis naturally comes uppermost. We have from tilno to time readily recognised this ?? enterprise ...

... proposition let one suffice :-what would be thought of the fate of a new piece should any of the actors concerned venture to speak the tag at a rehearsal ? All who are intimate with matters dramatic can supply the answer at once and there be many shining ...

... found his Royal Academy diploma, lent by Air Henry Graves. Sir Joshua Reynolds was buried ic St. Paul's Cathedral, but it speaks well for the enduring quality of his work that about two hundred of his paintings are considered a sufficient attraction for ...

... good service in the past year, will shortly commence operations for the coining season. Of con- certs we shall not attempt to speak. It was impossible to chronicle such an immense number. If few novelties were given, the vocal and instrumental talent displayed ...

... emotions of her sex. Thus, the best features of her performance were those in which the deceived woman and not the actress speaks. If not the most applauded scene, the incident of the second act, in. which Mistress Woffissgton during the entertain- ment ...

... libretto. The former, who acted the part at the Casimo, was well made up, sang well, and was much applauded. Mr Adolphi, who speaks withi a very strong German accent, is all amusing personage, and his rendering of the serenade to the moon stamps him a first-rate ...

... Aelym ucsa ts iyo hihllarliey im' sil ill extelleilt stle. MISS Emilly Fothergill ais Prince ?? ?? aild eliarliliic, land speaks her hiues elemurly' m,ad( disthiuctly. MlISS Floren01ce Fotlergill ?? Oiunces ill a Style that is very~ sti'prilillg in 1 ...