... 'p 0 p s Y. A Comedietta, by Dr. G. H. R. Dabbs, Produced at the Institute, Shanklin, IIe of Wight, on Friday, April 13th, 1388. Colonel Mauleverer . o ?? Mr H. BROOsE Solitary Jim ?? Mr SrAlNFonrT ?? aster H. SeeBy LowNDes Miss Virsinia Duck ?? iss a LICe NUNN Penny Wise ?? Miss COWPER COLcS Lorna ?? Mrs R. SErLY LoNDwss Popsy was written for a child actor. There is only one scene, ...

... On Saturday. March 31st, 1888, a New Romantic Play, in Four Acts, by W. H. Wills and Sydney Grundy, entitled THE POMPADOUR. Louis XV ?? Mr H. ASrLEY Due de Choiseul ?? M r ROYCE CARLETON Manpeau ?? Mr E. HARRIsoN Conmte Du Barri ?? M r F Rv.9FsLL Marquis De Silbouet ?? Mr GOReEc HONEY c Abbd ?? Mr F. JARRARD Eugene Lahbert ?? Mr FRED. TERRY voltairc ?? Mr CHARLEs BRooRFIELD t Grimm . ?? fr ...

... [ DRAWING-ROOM_ COMEDIES. The company formed by Messrs Poel and Berlyn to give dramatic performances in private houses, or in balls where only society may congregate, and where no common people could by any possibility be admitted, appeared on the afternoon of Wednesday last before a very fashionable audience at Willis's Rooms and submitted a programme that, in addition to the comedietta ...

... (FROM OUR OWN CORtESPONDS;rr) BRUSSELS, APRIL 18.-Except GiOconda., which wa heard at Brussels for the first time out of Italy, the only new production of any importance this season by the Dupont-Lapissida management of the Reina'ie has been Jocelyn, an opera, like fllanon, between grand and comic, by Benjamin Godard, to the libretto of Arrnanl Silvestre and Victor Capoul, after Larnartine's ...

... The performances of the Strolling Players Orchestra appear to increase in interest, and the attendance at St. James'ss Hall on Saturday last was very large. A better selection of music could hardly have been made than that given, under the direction of Mr Norfolk Megone, by the orchestra, and, considering that so large a pro- portion of the instrumentalists were amateurs, it was in the highest ...

... AMUSEMENTS IN NOTTINGHAEJ. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPOND NIX.) THIEATRE ROYAL.-Manager. Mr Thomas W. Charles.-Tt is so long a time since Lights o' London was played in Nottingham that its reproduction during the present week is wonderfully walcome, and, judgicig fromi the oscadiny, night, is likely to be as wonderfully attractive. The house wa., crammed, and hundreds were turned from the doors. ...

... ROBERT AND BERTRAM; OR, THE VOLATILE VAGRANTS. A Drollery in Four Acts, Adapted from the German of Gustav Rmader by Mr S. G. Horton, R.A., and played for the First Time in England at the Royal Artillery Theatre, Woolwich, on the Evening of Easter Monday, April 2d, iS I. Bobert ?? ?? Serg. R. GRIFFITH, R.A. Bertram ?? Gunner H. LEE, R.A. Strambach .. ?? AIr J. C. FRANCIS Michel ?? ?? Corp. H ...

... A comedy, in three acts, entitled Sang Bleu, ?? Chun (Major Yeldham), was produced at the Theatre Royal, Ryde, on Tuesday last. The plot is as follows:- Gloriana, Countess of P&vensey, is the mother of George Blueblood, Earl of Pevensey, and of the Hon. Reginald Blueblood. The Countess is a haughty aristocrat. The Hon. Reginald takes a pleasure trip to Australia, and there marries the daughter ...

... NEW THEATRE ROYAL T I -. . I I . The special sub-committee of the corpora approved the plans of Mr Frank Matchan, for the n5 have to be erected by Mr J. F. Elliston on the site O tho nwtht 4ne which was burnt down in (Churchgmate Th beau' entirely different in arrangenment froni the obuildinh ciii i into pit (and possibly pit stolls), dress.cirole huio' cdeu gallery, and the whole auditoriona ...

... (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.) ABERDEEN Hint MAJESTY's THnATRE.-Lessee, Mr W. M'Farland; Gene- ral Manager, Mr John Cavanah -Mr J. Pitt Hardacre and his Current Cash company are winning warm approbation from the popular portions of our theatre this week. Current Cash is well acted, the burden of the work falling on Misses Kate Reid, Rita Warne, and Ivy Baldwin; Messrs Pitt Hardacre, Milne ...

... TlHlEAT RIC AlL GOSSIP. Tire: Hon. Lewis WVingfield has taken in hand the ill prpois.ed benefit for that excellent actress and estimable t! lady MIrs Leigh 31urray, and it promises now to result F in a Iery gratifying success. Tire date fixed is Wed- 1 nesday morning, May 9th, and the scene is to be the h- Haymarket The.atr, thle use of which has been kindly n l given by Air B1erhohlm-Tree. ...

... THE OXFORD. Mfr Jennings, unlike many other managers, has retained most of the principal attractions of his Easter programme for some time after the holiday fever is past, and in consequence has presented during the week a well-arranged and entertaining bill. He is ever on the look-out for something in the way of music hall entertainment that will astonish or amuse, or both; and, though the ...