... (FROs1 OUR, OWN CORRESPONDENT.) CAPE TOWN, NOVEMBER 24, 1886. - THEATRE ROYAL.-Madame Pearmain, whose successful running of the Diplomacy company up country was duly- chronicled in these columns at the beginning of the present year, has just returned from England with new artists and new pieces, and opened here, for a short season, on Monday night, previous to her departure for the Diamond ...

... The benefits of the popular actual and responsible manageress of the Britannia Theatre, Hoxton, may correctly be described as unique celebrations. It is like going into another country and enjoying an interesting and amusing study of its inhabitants to be present at one of these functions, and to witness the hearty and effusive enthusiasm of the vast audience asnd its original modes of ...

... On Friday afternoon last, by kind permission of Mr J. L. Toole, who had granteda the use of his theatre for the occasion, an amateur performance was given in aid of the funds now being raised to provide new head- quarters for the Volunteer Medical Staff Corps. The entertainment was very well attended, the little theatre in King William-street being well filled with an excep- tionally, not to ...

... MARSHALL A ND SNELGROVE'S ENTERTAINMENT. On the evening of Saturday last there was a very large audience assembled at St. George's Hall, Langham place, to assist at the 27th annual entertainment given by the employds of the eminent firm of Messrs Marshall and Snelgrove on behalf of the funds of the Middlesex Hospital Time was when the gentlemen kept all the business upon the stage to them. ...

... A large number of those present at the last SiMn Reeves concert of the year, held in the Connaught Hall, Albert Palace, on Saturday, evinced more interest in the second or ballad portion of the programme than in the first, which consisted entirely of silections from the works of Carl Maria Von Weber, whose centenary was honoured thereby. Yet Weber's muwic is certainly not caviare to the ...

... THE L.ONDON THEATRES. What is popularly known as Cattle Show week brings a number of provincial visitors to town, and their general tendency to widely extend a round of sight- seeing has once more greatly helped to augment the attendance at most of the places of metropolitan amnuse- ment. The French opera season at HER MiAJESTY' is announced to terminate next week. The very suocessful career ...

... TIHE LONDON THEATRES. THE ROYALTY. On Tuesday, Decrember 22d, for the First Time, a Christmas Number. in One Act, by Marlk telford. entitled TlIE COlMlNG CLOWN. Teddy Macovey .. M. Mr WiLnIe EnDuit Tommlny M `coerc . . Miss. MiS AwiiC ArVi ervTON Mrs Macovey , ?? Mis Eli Yis Dowros Nellie .l.. . ?? ,liss itosli. LAURelI Mir Matleck I.Ar EDWARID TnIRLIY Borrows.A..i.r .ree..I is CsrAFFiRY ...

... An Ori'inal Play, in Three Acts, by Louis N. Parker, performed for the First Time at the Digby Hotel Assembly Room, Sherborne, on Friday, December Sd. Maris ?? Mr Louis CALVERT Stella ?? ?? Miss LILIAN HOBAN Pietro Casslla ?? Mr LEsLiE NORMAN Fejix ?? ?? MissRosE RoBBERs Graf von Friedeberg ?? Mr T. W. CONWAY A Buried Talent was performed for the first time on Friday evening, the 3d inst, ...

... TiE DRAMA IN PARDIS. EG'MUN'T, Lyric drama, in four acts, libretto by MM. Albert Wolff and Albert Millaud, music by M. Gaston Salvayre, produced at the Opdra-Comique, Decemnber 0th, 1886. Le conite ?? ?? Al. TALAZAC Braekemnbourg ?? Al. TASKIN Ledue ?? ?? Al. FolIUXSVI8 Ferdinand ?? ?? it. SOUIACOiX Vausen ?? ?? iA I1 BOT Zetter .Al. ?? Mendez ?? . . .. lussa Un hdraut ?? JIALbSQUF. Uil ...

... MR. FELIX I3IORRIS'S MATINEE. On Tuesday, December 21st, 1880, a New and Original Farce entitled LORD MACNINNY. Lord Macninny ?? Mr FELIX MOurIs Vernon Macninny ?? Mr J. NElsoN Grace Fautillion ?? Miss GRACE ARNOLD SoZen ?? ?? Miss FLORENCE WeOD Simpson ?? Mr CoeIrces CourTs Mr Felix Morris did not choose wisely when he selected Christmas week for the commencement of that series of matinees ...

... An Original Four-Act Drama, produced on December 3d, 1886, at the Theatre Royal, West Bromwich. Jasper Onslow . M ?? Mr {. TuRsN Ernest Dormer .. i. r FRANK AsnIA Ricirdo ?? ?? Mr Hss5LEGRAVB Joshua Spriggins ?? Mr ARMOUR Mr Hardman ?? Mr CsiLuE: Doris Carlton ?? Miss CARLOTTA YossOs Muriel ?? iss CECILE ANSON Sarah Spriggins ?? Miss H. Yossos (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONiDENT.) The first act of ...

... LA BELLE ITALIE. fluonedy vaudeville, in three acts, by MM. Jules irtiel and Alfred Erny, producedattheOlunyTheatre, Ke'y eimber 27th, 1886. . islaroe .. ?? M. DoRGAT ..uc. ?? ?? If. RZONARD ,eellguio ?? .M LUBEAU 'jorsisli ?? S. :. ALLAART Pietro Pictrini ?? M. GurnFOy Oarlo ?? ?? M. PAULET Iheobaoldo ?? M. CorTs Jenny ?? Madame ACIANA ?? Mdile. HaNRioT J r .e.stile ?? dlle. MARTIAL ala ?? ?? ...