... THEATRES. An interesting experiment wlas made in,! London vesterdav with a new fireproof curtain fhr theatres. A large model of Drury Lane prosceniiial Und stage was erected in a builder s varid, and burned in presence of several gerll~i-a. mlen Vho hjail been ...

... Last night, for the first time in England, the scene of Walpurgis Night revels in M. Gounod's Faust was introduced at Drury Lane. Thec music is tolerably well known at concerts, but E as it is copyright and as ML. Gounod is t justifiably annoyed that ...

... attained grudged the maaagement the extra time which they had taken. A Drury Lane representationl, a irs Gus Harris, of any stage pieco is always a Hig affair; but a Drury Lane pantonmime, with all its gorgeous spectacular magnificence, is something ...

... far mnre complete mianner thais we have recently seen in opera. Directly after the Drury Lane season closes Mr Harris will beghi the rellearsals F of the newl Drury Lane melodrama 'Pleasure, iui which liisses Alma Murray, Dawson, and Kenward, Mlessrs ...

... Clo .Graves's Nitocris -the latter given only once at a matince, but intes'led in the sring to be :placed in the regular Drury Lane ?? the chief specimens of new works of this class. Among the revivals may be mentioned Lord Byron's Werner, played once ...

... spriug season of Itali'n a opera at Covent Garden between 2March 12 arnd Miay 7. Mr Cati Rosa had an English season at . Drury Lane betzweea April 30 and Jule 11, r Si gnor Lago his regular scason at the 8 Royal Italian Opesa between MIay 24 and July 13 ...

... incidental music will be performed. The readings is expected to last about two and a half hours. After the present week tile Drury Lane pan- !tomime, The Forty Thieves, will be the sole survivor of these entertainments. The Standard pantomime has come to ...

... ; ;it is a fact that Mr Planche actually was locked i up one night in Drury Lane Theatre. He was under the stage looking over soue old scenery (every scene ever painted at Drury Lane is still E in the theatre, and the accumulation is enor. t nmous) when ...

... Glasgow. 7 Mr August Harris has announced the first six oprogrammes of his season of Italian opera, . which will begin at Drury Lane on the 13tb, -Aida, Rigoletto, Norma, Lohea- grin, Carmen, and DonGiovanni, will form the reportory of the first ...

... IMUSIC AND -THE DRAMA. (FRoM our, OWN COerREsPON;DET.) London, Sunday N;ight. Drury Lane Theatre closed last night, and thus the opera season in London finally came to an end. Mr Harris bad intended to continue a week or two longer, but his principal ...

... of Esmeralda at the Gaiety. Boxing G , night will be reserved for the pantomimes a^t D s Drury Lane and Covent Garden. Puss in A [ Boots at Drury Lane will certainly be the most y' t gorgeous pantomime Mr Augustus Harris has L t over produced, ...

... the London Gazette.) I REOEIVINO ORDERS. WN.Vaerselman, Great Tower Street, London, nrovision merchant. - W. J. Badger, Drury Lane, London, mineral water manufacturer. J. Framojee, trading as J. Framiee & Co., New Broad Street, Londono, East India merchant ...