... DRAMA. OPERA COMIQUE THEATRE WHERE the performance of old English comedy is concerned, the presence of a fashionable audience cannot make up for the absence of a pit. The players want the sympathy of out spoken playgoers to react upon them. They need hearty laughter rather than languid applause, no matter how dis tinguished be the applauders. Now, Miss Vaughan's patrons at the Opera Comique on ...

... . NO one would think from merely reading a précis of the plot of Jack in the Box that in this piece Messrs. Sims and Scott have provided Miss Fannie Leslie with a variety drama of the approved pattern. The main thread of the story is hung upon a murder committed before the play begins, which murder is supposed to implicate one Edward Moreland, the prodigal son of a rich Australian. Edward ...

... music. NOEDIS A. EVER since this year commenced there has been excitement in musical circles throughout the civilised world respecting the production of Verdi's Otello, produced last Saturday at La Scala, Milan, in presence of an audience gathered from all quarters of the globe. The opera will probably be the crown ing effort of a long and splendid career, but it should not be forgotten that ...

... IT is a hopeful sign of the possible revival of dramatic literature, properly so called, for which all true lovers of the Stage have long sighed, that some of our best-known po ...

... VERDI'S OTELLO.-- We understand that there is little or no chance of a performance in London of Verdi's latest opera for some time to come. No presentation of the work in the English language will p ...

... MESSRS. J. CURWEN AND SONS.-- There is much sterling merit in The Victorian Age, a cantata for the Jubilee of Her Majesty's reign, the libretto by F. C. Weatherly, M.A., the music by J. L. Roeckel. ...

... Two volumes of stories, and those translated from the German of an author whose name, to say the least, will be new to most English readers, suggest unlikely material for the most prominent position i ...