... ,,MY COURIER. A Romantic Comedy, in Four Acts, adapted by Miss Jennie Le Terrier, produced at the Comedv Theatre, Manchester, Monday, August 23d, 1896. Mrs Pauline Aroin Bruce ?? Mdlle. Drn GARMO Wilton Stuarts ?? Mr LAURENCE GREY T. Winder Ferrett ?? Mr F. M. STANsLY Herbert Tollemache ?? Mr LIONEL MARSON Tristran Bonisace ?? Mr HARRY CAVE Adolphe ?? ?? Mr HAROLD BaOweise Karl Friedland ?? ...

... A3MUSEMIENTS IN CANADA. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) MONTREAL, OCTOBER 8.-ACADRMY OF MUSIC.- Old comedy in any way adequately performed is a very rare bird on this continent, and Miss Rose Coghlan, being presumably unable to* find a new play suited to her requirements, has very wisely conceived the idea of starring through the country with a repertoire drawn from the works of such master ...

... WE hear by telegraph that the sale of seats in advance for Mr Wilson Barrett's performance in New York for the benefit of the Actors' Fund was enormous. The Princess's company have been playing nightly to splendid business and the booking is almost without parallel. The theatre is filled nightly with audiences drawn from the most cultured classes in New York, and it is not nausual for Mr ...

... MMi7-. Paul Ferrier and Fabrice Carrels New Comic Opera, English Version by C. M. Rae, Music by Victor Roger. Montosol ?? Ar FRANK CELLI Abdatlah . ?? Mr HENRY BEAUMONT Mourzouf ?? Mr LFanv 'ibe Postman .. .. Mr HENDON Alfred Pasha ?? Mr FRAuK WYATT Mladame Dubois ?? . Madame AMADI ?? Miss Eerie1 CLEMSENTS lifine ?? iss MINNIE MARSHALL Adele . ?? Miss F. MELvILLE. Jeannette . ?? Miss ...

... (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) MONTREAL, FEBRUARY 28.-LYcEsiu THEATRE.- A very fair burlesque has held the boards at this place of amusement during the week. Mr W. H. Fuller is about the only native dramatic author Canada possesses; and, although his claims to celebrity rest principally on a political parody, H.M.S. Parliament, which, owing to its local hits, obtained considerable success ...

... A suburban playgoer has just been making complaint concerning the hours at which the performances at some London theatres begin and terminate. These perform- ances, he holds, are given in the interest, mainly, of the late diners-the occupants, for the most part, of the stalls and boxes and drees circle-and to the detriment and annoyance of the less well-to-do patrons of the theatre who occupy ...

... (FROM OUR BRUSSELS CORRESPONDRNT.) Under the auspices of the Dramatic Authors' Federa- tion for the production of Belgian plays, the time has again come round for the appearance of the Union Dra- matique et Philanthropique, which body gave last week at the Alcazar an admirable representation of M. Van Laethem's unpublished comedy, in four acts, entitled LES BATISSEURS. Though this is a ?? d ...

... I_ -1 OrAt . I The members of this society have reason to be proud of the patronage they can command. Of some of it, that is. When, on the evening of Thursday last, they undertook to entertain their friends, the said friends came ap in such tremendous force that there was hardly a seat vacant either in stalls, area, or balcony. We have qualified our first remark because there was one young ...

... CONCERT AT PRINCE'S HiALL. A concert in aid of a fund for the benefit of the widow of the late Signor Nicola Ferri was given at the Prince's Hall, Piccadilly, last Monday afternoon, unde, distinguished patronage. From particulars printed on the programme we learn that Signor Ferri was a composer of high order. At the age of sixteen he composed his first opera, Luigi Rolla, which was so suc- ...

... (FROs OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) pARIS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14.-MI. Alexandre poinsei' new piece at the Renaissance is as gay as his canons 115, Rue Pigalle, to which it bears a strong 'isnily likeness, broad farce and equally broad dialogue ;,iitg amongst its most marked features. But the wit the author of Le Deputd de BEmbiigoac and his talent devising droll situations are again to the fore, so ...

... AFTEIR LONG YEARS' An Original Play, in Three Acts, written by Mr Arthur Law and Mrs Herbert Puors, and produced by bliss De Grey at the Theatre Royal and Opera House Torquay, October 20th, 18S6. Philip Canningham ?? ?? BASSETT ROE Henry Cunningham . . Mr E. NoRWOOD Seilor eicardo . . M r A. T. HILTON Mr Cunningham ?? Mr W. F. STrIRLING Sir Frederick Goodchild * Mr MATTW BRnoDsIE Mrs ...

... A MAAGER IN A NEW ROLE. Incog. in his weekly notes to the Worcestershire Advertiser of the 16th inst., says:- I, like many other people, have had the pleasure of seeing Mr W. Gomersall, the esteemed lessee of the Worcester Theatre Royal, in many good roles; but I venture to think that but few have had the privilege of seeing him pose as an interpreter in a police-court. That privilege was ...