... LONDON is just now not quite so completely denuded of theatrical entertainments as Paris, where, owing to the hot weather and the fire panic, only one theatre, and that a house of the third rank, stil ...

... . IT can hardly be maintained that the performances of Ia Dame aux Camélias and Frou-Frou at the Lyceum have come up to the standard of the rendering of Théodora, with which the French play season commenced here. The company porting Mme. Bernhardt seems much more at home in strongly accentuated melodrama than in romance of a less highly- coloured type: whilst for comedy its capacities are ...

... . IF Miss Violet Melnotte should succeed in her latest venture at the Comedy Theatre it will be in spite of the fact that she has chosen for revival a comedy of exhausted interest, and has presented it at the least attractive time of the year for play- going. We do not in any way underrate the cleverness of Mr Burnand's comedy, The Colonel. It turned to new and excel lent account the framework ...

... . MB. W. FREEMAN THOMAS will open his sixth annual con cert season at Covent Garden on Saturday, August 13, instead of August 6, as at first announced. The theatre will be re decorated, and a large number of fairy lamps of various colours and shapes will be employed in lighting up the front of each tier of boxes. The orchestra, including leading members of the Philharmonic orchestra, will be ...

... . H1NCE tne suceesslul production ot Les iluguenots Mr. Augustus Harris has not made any addition to the repertory of the current opera season at Drury Lane. The great reduction in the prices of admission has drawn large audiences, and they have appreciated the ex eellent performances of standard works by the strong company. On Monday last Aida was given, with Mme. Nordica aB Aida, in which ...

... , SIGNOR LAGO has not been idle, but has, since our last notice of his efforts, produced three additions to the repertory of the current season at Covent Garden. In all instances the remarkably excellent choir, and the equally meritorious orchestra lei by Mr. Carrodus, have been worthy of hearty praise, and the leading artists have maintained their reputa tions. I Puritani, generally found ...

... BOITO's Mefistofile was produced here last week with a tolerably efficient cast, and an attractive mise en scène. Farther rehearsals might have been advantageous, and the orchestra, despite the untiring exertions of Signor Arditi, were often at fault. The title character was represented by Signor Oxilia with greater success than had been attained by him in the Faust of Gounod. Signor Abramoff ...

... MR. AUGUSTUS HARRIS has happily got rid of some leading artists more costly than deserving, but retains an excellent company, qualified to do justice to a copious repertory. His promised production of Les Huguenots in its entirety has been postponed until Monday next, for the take of further rehearsals, and will be produced with a strong cast, including Miles. Nordica, Fabbri, and Eagle, the ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. MRS. JAMES BROWN-POTTER AND COMPANY. MORE brown pottery, remarked Mr. Fred Leslie, as he stumbled over a wine jar in a recent Gaiety burlesque, and he has proved a true if an involuntary prophet. The lady whose name inspired the jest has succeeded him on the stage which witnessed its utterance. The sacred lamp has once more been removed from its pedestal and replaced by ...

... J}, ins and Masters. A Story of School Life. By A. H. Gilkes, m A Master of Duiwion uoiiege. Lionaon Jjongmans, Green and Co. 1887. Mr Gilkes declares that he publishes his story with many o'eivings. He need not have felt any, for it is a very good mrv indeed. His boys act and talk like boys they are Unite natural and not at all priggish, which is precisely the verse of what one usually finds ...

... . THE Covent Garden repertory has been enlarged by the ad- dition of four operas. In La Sonnambula, Mlle. Ella Russell, as Amina, added another to her long list of successes. The music is perfectly suited to her beautiful voice, and she won enthusiastic applause in the opening solo, Come per me sereno, in the finale of Act 2, and still more notably in the finale of Act 3, in which she sang, ...

... . Lohengrin, was produced last week at Drury Lane, with complete success. A splendid mise en scène testified to the good taste and liberality of Mr. Augustus Harris, and the part of Lohengrin exhibited in the most favourable light the ad mirable qualities of M. Jean De Reszke; decidedly the best Lohengrin we have seen in London. His brother Edouard, as King Harry, showed how much may be made ...