... . Concerning the reappearance of Mile. Jane Hading and M. Darnala in Ic Mailre de Forges there is little to be added to what was said when M. Ohnet's rather commonplace but effective piece was presented at the Royalty last winter. On Saturday night the drama did not attract an audience by any means so large as might have been expected, and we fancy that the time has come when the public has ...

... . MR. J. H. MAPLESON'S short summer season of Italian Opera at Covent Garden opened auspiciously last Saturday night with a representation of La Traviata, the part of Violetta being filled by Mme. Adelina Patti, who appeared to be fully restored to her usual health. Her impersonation of the wretched Violetta has been often described, and on this occasion it will be sufficient to say that her ...

... FOR nearly forty years now has MM. Scribe and Legouvé's drama, Adrienne Lecouvreur, held the stage both in France and in this country, nor does there seem to be much chance of its ceasing to prove attractive whenever it is handled by capable players. It is no doubt a play of the stage, stagey; it is in tended to be acted and not to be read, and much of its elaborate intrigue is of the most ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. AT THE PRINCESS'S. Junius; or, the House hold Gods, by the late Lord Lytton, is, I take it, a play which will neither greatly enhance its author's reputation as a dramatist nor materially benefit the treasury of the Prin-- cess's Theatre. There are some fair speeches and some moderate situations, and the in terest is well worked up at the close. But the opening act is weak ...

... VAUDEVILLE THEATBE. THE prompt promotion of the comedy, Loyal Lovers, to the evening programme at the Vaudeville, after its tentative pro duction there at a matinee, would seem to be a judicious move. Last Saturday night, it was a case of standing room only in most parts cf the house, and the piece provides its spectators with a couple of hours of very hearty merriment. Of several previous ...

... . THE seventy-third season of the Philharmonic Society closed last week with a specially interesting concert, the programme in cluding an important orchestral novelty, in the shape of the symphonic poem, Johanna d' Arc, by the celebrated composer, Moritz Moszkowski, who-- on the invitation and at the expense of the society-- came from St. Petersburg expressly to conduct this performance of his ...

... . PEOPLE have been saying of late that what playgoers want nowadays is pieces over which they can laugh-- that the hour has gone by for pocket-handkerchief dramas, and that when life is so serious as it is in these hard times only the lightest form of theatrical distraction can be popular. There may be something in the theory; but the reception of Olivia at the Lyceum on Wednesday night, goes ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. AT AN OPEN HOUSE. I AM constitutionally of a most enthusiastic disposition. I have been assured that the bumps of admiration and ven eration stand out upon my skull like the twin domes of Batchouna Sargha, and I am con tinually open to reproof from my ineradicable habit of viewing all things and all men-- figuratively of course-- through rosy-tinted spectacles. Such ...

... . FIRST assumptions of important parts are not often given in this country by popular actors and actresses elsewhere than in London; and when by chance they are they fail to attract the attention roused by Miss Anderson's debut as Rosalind at Stratford-on- Avon. This performance was attended by the representatives not only of local newspapers but of many of the London dailies and weeklies-- an ...

... . THAT the name of Sims Reeves is one to conjure with was attested on Monday last by the largeness of the attendance at the special concert given at Covent Garden, with his name as the leading attraction. His finished renderings of Tom Bowling (Dibdin) and the Bay of Biscay (Davy) elicited the usual enthusiastic applause, and were models of style. Of course, encores were in each instance ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITia SOME SHOWS IN PICCADILLY. I LIKE Piccadilly. Piccadilly in its pride, I make no doubt, will not trouble itself with this expression of individual opinion. In the supreme and lofty consciousness of its merits and attractiveness, it may possibly scoff at my utterance as egotistic and presumptuous. More probably it will ignore it altogether. Nevertheless, I again venture to ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIO. THE CHURCH AND STAGE GUILD. CURIOSITY, veiled under the name of duty, im pelled me to be present last week at a meeting of that hybrid associa tion, the Church and Stage Guild, held at Neumeyer Hall. The meeting had been con voked to hear a paper on Village Theatres read by its author, the Rev. John P. Wright, rector of Oldbury, Bridgnorth. Numerically considered, the ...