... 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 ...

... . 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 ...

... . ANY work produced by Dr. Stainer merits immediate and respectful attention. He writes little, but always writes well, and has composed admirable music of an ecclesiastical cha racter. He has also distinguised himself, both while organist of Magdalen College, Oxford, and during the fifteen years that he has been organist of St. Paul's Cathedral, by zealous and suc cessful efforts to improve ...

... MUSIC. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. THE year 1887 promises to be a memorable one in the annals of Italian Opera in London. We wrote, last week, the public estimation of Italian Opera will this year be sharply tested by two successive seasons of it at Covent Garden. Since then we have learnt that Mr. Augustus Harris intends to give, immediately after the Carl Rosa opera season at Drury Lane, a Royal ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. A HOME OF REST FOR HORSES. ON this present occa sion the standard head ing to this weekly series of articles is scarcely justifiable save on the broad principle that the flag covers the cargo whatever it may be composed of. For the plain fact is, that I am not going to criticise at all, but simply to appeal. As it happened, I cast about for something whereon to exercise my ...

... Royal Italian Opeba.- Signor Vianesi having failed to arrive here in due course of time, it is probable that Mr. Map'eson will dispense with his services as chief conductor during the current season of opera at Covent Garden. In that case, we are glad to learn, the post of chief conductor is likely to be filled by Signor Bottesini, who is not only the greatest of all violoncellists, but an ...

... , WE doubt very much whether Ruddy George; or, Robin Red breast, the skit upon Ruddigore which was tried on Saturday morning at Toole's, is likely to take its place in the evening programme. There is not, perhaps, more bad taste in the joke than is inevitable whenever mimicry is introduced. There are one or two clever individual performances, and a few satis factory laughs. But Ruddy George, ...

... . AT what was Astley's, and is now Sanger's, there was presented on Saturday night an adaptation of Joshua Haggard, one of Miss Braddon's most dramatic novels. The title of the play, which is by Mr. J. Wilton Jones-- the other Jones-- is oddly enough borrowed from a second fiction. It is Recommended to Mercy. The hero of Miss Braddon's story iB, it will be recollected, a minister at a ...