... the Celestial who assumes a sadly solemn air when amused would laugh at that intensely funny pantomimist Paul Martinetti. He speaks an universal language-that of the features, about the expression of which there is nothingidiomatic ; or hazy. Each gesture ...

... audience that it allayed to a igreat extent any feeling of disappointment at the ;pantomime not being concluded. We are able to speak I in cordial praise of the efforts of the company, the only fault being a tendency to lengthen the comic business of the opening ...

... complete in its effect, and gains the warmest applause. Of Madame Collier. who is responsible for their training, one can speak in terms of nothing but the highest praise. In scene two, the Portrait Corridor of the Baron's Residence, we are introduced ...

... Tm-nt new military spectacle, by AMll. Erckmann- Chatrian, which the Chatelet has produced as a drama, is not, strictly speaking, a piece at all, but merely a series of episodes, rather loosely tacked together, con- nected with Massina's capaign in ...

... may have been very charming once, and no doubt the remembrance of her former charms is what makes bald-headed old men still speak of her as divine. But I am neither old nor bald- headed, nor can I dwell upon my theatrical reminiscences of twenty or thirty ...

... Denise comes foremost, and is also the most remarkable work that saw light, and Antoinette Rigaud was also. comparatively speaking, a successful piece. With Le Prince Zilae, La Doctoresse and Sopho the Gymnaso is entitled, I think, to claim pride of place ...

... of a regular masher -we always thought mashers were irregular-and hardly justified Jonathan's boast that our cousins speak the common language better than we do. Mliss Conway's dance, however, is eloquent of Transatlantic industry and per- severance ...

... that the other music halls in London, such as the Alhambra, Canterbury, Para- gon, Oxford, Metropolitan, and Royal, not to speak of the other fine buildings devoted to the same branch of entertainment as the Pavilion, would have been well known to him; ...

... ion. Few more attractive Fairy Queens have ever been ;een on the Prince's stage than the Bowbelle of Miss E. Kenyon, who speaks her lines wvith point, and sings s'th extraordinary vivacity and refinement.. Miss Nelly Lyons, who plays Captain Shippy Chappie ...

... through he was of opinion that it was an ordinary pantomime, although only one person spoke. By Mr Besley-He heard one person speak, and the other person answered by singing. He had played in the same building under Mr Cave, and it was fitted up as an ordinary ...

... theatre in to-day's Era your remark that I did not speak out on Boxing Night. The fact is that I was suffering from such a severe cold on the chest that it was with great difficulty I managed to speak at all, my voice having completely gone the preceding ...

... truly, FRANK 1. STAN;LEY, January 18th, 1886. MR EDXTOR.-Sir,-In your notice of the Theatre Royal, Sunderland, pantomime you speak of a solo being sung by the Fairy Queen in scene two. It should have been violin solo played by, yours faithfully, DOLLY ...