... MR. SYDNEY GRUNDY'S farce in three acts, entitled The Snowball, originally produced at the Strand Theatre some years ago, has been revived at the Globe this week with some success. Its story, which co ...

... THE ROYAL JUBILEE ANTHEM.-- Two musical compositions have been commanded for the Royal Jubilee. One is Mr. W. G. Cusins' Jubilee Cantata, which will be performed in the Queen's presence at a State ...

... MESSRS. WEEKES AND CO.-- Three songs, written and com posed by Cotsford Dick, are pleasing compositions: they are respectively, In a Dream, A Lullaby of Love, and A Caprice; they are all of medi ...

... Messrs. Reid Brothers. Of two songs written and com posed by W. C. Newsam and Claude Melville, Gwendoline and My Boyhood's Love, the former is by far the more pleasing and original it will be a favo ...

... DRAMA. GLOBE THEATRE. A BRIGHT, airy, but very unsubstantial entertainment is that now provided at the Globe with the revival of The Snow ball and Crazed, and the production of a pleasant new comedietta, After Many Days. The pièce de résistance is, of course, Mr. Grundy's comedy, a more or less faithful, and decidedly dexterous version of Oscar; ou, le Mari qui Trompe sa Femme, one of the few ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. DOROTHY. AGAIN this week the pencil has all the best of it, and the pen, to modify Sheridan's well- known example, can do little more than supply a subsidiary rivulet of text to meander around islands of illustration. The subject which my artistic colleague and my self have elected to deal with is one affording him a bet ter chance of dis playing his powers than it ...

... DRAMA. OLYMPIC THEATRE. THE society of young players calling themselves Dramatic Students did something more than a creditable piece of work in their performance last Tuesday of A Woman Killed with Kindness. They afforded the first opportunity enjoyed by playgoers for some two hundred years of making the stage acquaintance of Heywood's beautiful and touching tragedy. Readers of the Elizabethan ...

... . UNCEASING activity appears to be the order of the day under Mr. Mapleson's management at Covent Garden. In addition to the performances of La Traviata and Rigoletto noticed in our columns last week, six operas have been added to the repertory, and several leading artists have made appear ances for the first time this season. Most of them were entirely new to this country, and some criticism ...

... THE revival of Mr. Tom Taylor's Lady Clancarty at the ST JAMES'S Theatre will be memorable as well for the powerful acting of Mrs. Kendal as for the beauty and completeness of the historical setting w ...

... GULES upon Gules is proverbially bad heraldry, and burlesque upon burlesque is obviously not less open to objection, on artistic ground. Ruddigore. at the Savoy, is avowedly designed to burlesque th ...

... . FOR the last fortnight of his stay at the Olympic Mr. Terry revived, on Monday evening, Mr. Pinero's eccentric comedy, In Chancery, following it with My Cousin, a comedietta now given for the first time in London. Mr. Pinero's play, though less finished and neat than some of his other humorous works, and though not so well fitted to Mr. Terry's peculiar method as is The Rocket, is ...

... . AT the thirteenth of these concerts, given on Saturday last, Mr. Ebenezer prout's fourth symphony was performed for the first time in the metropolitan district since the fine performance cf it given last year, under the direction of the composer, at the Covent Garden Promenade Concerts. The work improves on further acquaintance. It is remarkably fresh and clear; the melodies-- especially in ...