... . Twixt Kith and Kin is the title of a drama adapted from Miss M. E. Braddon's story Cut by the County, by Mr. J. J. Blood, who obtained the express permission of the authoress for his work. The piece was originally produced at the Prince of Wales's Theatre, Birmingham, in August last, and during the past week has been played by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Dacre, at the Grand, Islington, much to the ...

... ELEPHANT A\'li fusiTT.u Tin? A mm? MR. J. A. CAVE, who is about to undertake the management at Covent Garden has been succeeded at the Elephant and Castle Theatre by Mr. Burton Green, and to judge by the applause which greeted lessee and actors at the fall of the curtain on Green Bushes, with which the autumn season has been inaugurated, the Surrey audience are satisfied with their new ...

... JI. MAURICE STRAKOSCH. WE have to deplore the recent death of a skilful musician, upright and honourable man, and amiable friend, Maurice Strakosch, who died last Sunday night, at the age of sixty-three, at Paris. He bad long been ailing, and during his last visit to England with his pupil, Mlle. Arnoldson, he told us that be felt sure he had not much longer to live. A correspondent writes:-- ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE POINTSMAN. HAVE certain views as to the main essential towards suc cessful dramatic writing, which may or may not be correct, but which have remained unshaken for a considerable time past, and have indeed only been confirmed by a long course of playgoing. Chief amongst them stands the theory that interest is better aroused and sustained by progres sive action than by ...

... . At the third of the Saturday Concert series, given on day last at the Crystal Palace, Sir Arthur Sullivan's dwimn cantata, The Golden Legend, was for the second time pcrfo i here, with Mme. Nordica (Elsie), bliss Hilda Wilson (Urf.'! Mr. Ivor McKay (Prince Henry), Mr. Watkin Mills (Jri1 ..{j nnd Mr. Horscroft (Forester) in tho lending parts. j[r, sang well, and Mme. Nordica lias seldom sung ...

... SIJRliEY TI1EATKE. A PASSAGE in a novel-- a very characteristic one-- by 51. Boisgobey, which has already blossomed into a Porte Saint Martin play called Les Estrangleurs de Paris, affords the founda tion of The Stranglers of Paris, a melodrama from the pen of Mr. Arthur Shirley produced last Monday at the Surrey. The Stranglers is rather straggling in plot, but possesses a long series of ...

... . THE red brick building hard by Simpson's Divan in the Strand, which has for some time been slowly approaching completion, was opened on Monday last as Terry's Theatre. Save for the convenience of its position, the site-- which is that of the old Occidental Tavern-- was not a particularly eligible one for a theatre, as it is very cramped, and is, of course, henmed in by adjoining houses. But ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. AT THE CO VENT GARDEN CONCERTS. BY nature I am scarcely disposed, I might indeed almost write fitted, to play the part of a musical critic, though I have done so pretty frequently with more or less success, and trust in all honesty to be able to repeat the performance. Judicious circumlocution, and the adroit annexation of expert opinion, will go a very long way towards ...

... MESSRS. AGATE AND CO.-- I'll Live for Thee, an ultra- romantic song, written and composed by Edward Oxenford and Charles Hoby, will find favour with musical victims to the tender passion.-- Faithf ...

... MESSRS. NOVELLO, EWER, AND Co.-- Part 76, Vol. X. of the Organist's Quarterly Journal inaugurates well the autumn publish ing season. We have had a more than usually long dead time, but there are sign ...

... THE fact that the new burlesque at the GAIETY is written by two authors hitherto unknown to the public, coupled with the absence from the bill of two such established favourites as Mr. Fred Leslie and ...

... . NO season could begin much more prosperously than that commenced on Monday night at the Royalty by Mr. Mayer, who puts forward the most interesting series of French per formances that any autumn has offered for a good many years. One may perhaps doubt whether M. Coquelin, fine comedian though he is within certain limits, will prove quite so popular as a star as he was when a member of a ...