... 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 ...

... A HAPPY DAY -AT THE GAIETY. A Family Farce, by Richard Henry, Produced on the Evening of Wednesday, October 6th, 1886. Jerrymer Jawkins ?? Mr ARTnuR WiLAANs Mrs Jawkins ?? Miss HARRIET COVRNEr Angelina ?? ?? Miss FLORENcE BHALS Sophonisba ?? s blis TERRISS Edwin ?? Mr B. P. SEARE Kewton ?? ?? Mr J. LE HAY Ethelburga ?? M Miss Rosa SILVESTER Ethelinda ?? ?? Miss FiORFNCE SILVESTER ...

... We have before breathed out condemnation of the efforts of what Messrs Robertson and Thorling are pleased to term their dramatic company. But up till last Saturday evening they had confined themselves to melodrama and farce, and it was not until then that we had an opportunity of seeing them at the Royal Park Lecture Hall, Camden-town, in the legiti- mate. The sublime self-confidence that ...

... GERMAN REEDS ENTERTAINMENT. Mr Corney Grain has been taking holiday at Aix-les- Bains, but having, as is his wont, combined business with pleasure be has prepared for his numerous admirers a new sketch which he calls Taking the Waters. This was presented on Monday night to a crowded audience, whose enjoyment of it was made abundantly manifest by laughter and applause. When Mr Grain travels he ...

... Mir Conquest's pantomime is decidedly one of the most 'legitimate productions of its kind in London, if the traditional notion of this class of entertain- ment be taken as correct. While it affords plenty of instances of gorgeous spectacle and artistic display, it also contains a large amount of downright romping, roaring, side-splitting, practical fun. The youngsters positively screech with ...

... COLLINS'S COMPANY IN THE WORKHOUSE- Mr H]. Sprake, the popular proprietor of Collins's Music Hall, rides a very handsome hobby, and for some years past has found pleasure at Christmas-time in ministering to the enjoyment of the aged inmates of Islington Workhouse. The eagerly looked for treat was given again on Wednesday last, when the members of the company under engagement at the little ...

... Obbo ad (TAIDOO IN a crusade against the nude in art, now going on in Montreal, the authorities are reported to have lodged an action against one of the wealthiest gentle- men in the city for keeping in his house copies of The Venus of Milo, The Venus di Medici, Canova's Venus, Power's Greek Slave, lihe Laoccon, and other works. One very cold night a jolly old fellow, who had ...

... BiR. McLEAN'S GALLERY. -0 'The chief attraction at the gallery of Mr. Thomas McLean, in the Haymarket, is Sir John Everett Uillais's Portia -a new picture of much brilliance, and beauty of expression. It is not, we believe, intended as a portrait of any distinguished impersonator of Shakespeare's heroine, neither may this rendering of Portia's face realise everyone's ideal conception of the ...

... .?iUsw. 4 lii CRSA PE'TA ALA CE, t lie second? ,Saturday afternoon concert of the t icrty -first s eries toolk placeu last wie ek, when t hles pregiamnure wvas rendered tributary to the mem~ory oft telthe rlets Pre iszt by a selection froml ?? works. The visit of' this remarkable comsposer to England last April., andl his death at the e nd ct tlhe followving July, w iil beh fresh~ iai the ...