... 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 ...

... A BOOK FOR ORATORS AND SINGERS. - THOUGH there must by this time be in existence almost as many hand- books for singers and speakers as a fast reader could skip through in a lifetime or so, publishers still find them safe investments. Young people who are born into that fringe of the musical and theatrical professions from which we draw our great stock of deadheads are generally much at a loss ...

... BROTHER JONATHAN INTERVIEV'WED. IN PrLA9TONr TO OUR TRANSATLANTIC VISITOCR. Who of all creation stands First and foremost preacher ? Guess, a rhyme suggests the man- Henry W. Beecher. As a spout-drip to our Falls, Or bison to a barker, As Yosemite to Wales, So to Beecher, Pzrker! 111. What's your Thames to Mississip ? What's a sprat to sturgeon ? Wellington to Washington ? That to Beecher, ...

... THE PALL MALL LIST OF ENTERTAINMENTS, ?? nflt'-T ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA., COVENT GARDEN. EXTRA PERFORMANCE, TO-NIGHT (Monday,.rJ for the COMPLIMENTARY BENEFt of the Director, Signor, LAGO. In consequence of its great success Rossini's opera IL RARBiRE D SI VIGLIA WVill be given, commencinlg at 8.30. Mdlle. Ella Russell, .Mdllc. Florensa; Signori Dr Falco, Carbone, Pinto, Ughetti Fille, and M. ...

... _ETURE IiMIGijATIOY. 501igration as a blessing which Begadlfel happiness and plenty on many 9coterred audition here appeared well janilies %N lss5 it is not difficult to find 1h 00Pe fope aid from the State. But the ?? 1n n has to be prepared, and ¶O7t a thed out, troubles and anxieties irll E. Glanville, in his handbook, 650. *6d /m1rigration, and Wrild Sport in r State-aeColonly (Emzpire ...

... Au interesting address on the Theatrical History ol Exeter was recently delivered by Mr Alderman Cotton, J.P., at the laying of the foundation stone of the Ness Theatre Royal. He ?? is not generally know thal the cityof Exeter, precisely 300 yearsago, acquired an evi notoriety as being the scene of an incident which wai specially and supernaturally devised as a warniag anc terror to all play ...

... I~ ~ TtIE new burlesque, liene the burneer, with whichi f Stephens andl Yardlay, in the double characters of managers and dramatists, have opened TOOLE'S Theatre for a summer season, is a production of the usual extravagant and somewhat aimless pattern: but it is bright and merry with scenery, costumes, dances, and tuneful music. It affords Mr. Arthur Williams, moreover, oppor- tunity for a ...

... THEATIMMAL LITIGATION. In the Court of Quecr's Bench, on the 25th ult., before Mr Justice A. L. Smith, without a jury, was heard the action Spong v. Melnotte. This was an action to recover the sum of 35, balance of an account for painting an act-drop and three scenes for the defendant. Mr Waddy, Q.C., and Mr Holmnes Poulter were for the plaintiff; Mr Cock, Q.C., and Mr Lawson Walton for the ...

... THE COST OF PAINTING A PICTURE, THE comi1c story once told of a moneyed man who went to an artist's studio and asked the limner how much he would charge for a picture eight feet by six, if the purchaser found the materials, is not quite as comic in reality as it was intended to be. At any rate, some of the humour of the situation disappears when the actual cost of painting a work of those ...

... THE noble collection of pictures so celebrated in the art annals of this country, and so long the glory of the magnificent palace with which the nation commemorated and' rewarded the services of the Great Duke of Marlborough, is now brought to the verge of its final dispersion. - The beautiful pictures that adorned the palace of Blenheim are to-day*' on the walls of the auction-room, once more ...

... PRINICESS'S THEATRE. In his coming tear in America Mr. Wilson Barrett could not do better than open with Claeittian, for of all the plays he has pro- duced it has made the most lasting impres- sion, and, still more to the point, shown Mr. Barrett himself to the best advantage. Its revival, as the first of a series of farewell performances, naturally gives it an important place. On Monday it ...

... THEIATRICAL TRIBUNALS. The suggestion contained in the letter from Mr JOHN HOLLINGSHEAD, concerning a recent thea- trical action, which we published on July 17th, to the effect that outside people do not understand the rules and customs pertaining to the stage, and that, therefore, disputes between actors and managers had better be submitted to professional arbitrators, bears the usual ...