... The performance at SMr Lowrey's Star Music F1fl d Dublin, last Tuesday night was interrupted by an e ordinary and startling incident. A manl, named NVilla a a Kenny suddenly jumped from the top gallera anl i.; Y with great force onl a member of the orche tra MII s George Kennedy, cortnet player. Both untaihied s1-r injuries, the musician being the more sc iouslv Iilt o: k the two. The ...

... NEW PLJAYS OF THE MONTH. e LonDoN. e JULY 2. The World Against Her, drama, in five acts, t by Frank Harvey (first produced at Theatre 1 Royal, Preston, Jan. 11th, 1887)-Surrey. . 3. A Handsome Apology, comedietta, by Andrew .1 Longmuir-lrince of Wales's. e ,, 3. A L'Essai, French comedietta, by MA. A. - Cahen and G. Sujol-Prince of Wales's. I ,, (. The Worship of Plutus; or, Roscs, play, by ...

... TIRAVELUNG DRESS. If 'aevrwe~ may reckon on suntshine in this most versaltile of climastes it is dulring the month ?? many Thousands of Londoners , are now preparing to get away from the beat d and dust of the great cityr to seaside r'esorts or to Continental lakces, rivers, anld mountains, t Tihe bad weather hus by nO means aonfined its sx depressing influences to England, but has At ...

... USI1C. BAND REHEARALS FOR BIRMINGHAM. The orchestral rehearsals for the Birmingham Festival began yesterday morning at St. George's Hall, i and will be continued there daily till Thursday even- ing, the whole party resuming the practices with the chorus at Birmingham itself on Saturday morning, and concluding them on Monday; and the Festival itself beginning on Taesday. Thus-altogether apart ...

... LYCUUM. Mr. Richard Mansfield, a comparatively young actbr-who, after acquiring some theatrical experi. ence in this country and successfully playing in America the characters in the Gilbert-Sullivar operas identified with the quaint method of Mr. George Grossmith, found enviable reputation await ing him in a dramatic version of Mr. R. L. Steven- son's weirdly poverful story, * The Strange ...

... AMoNG other victims of cold- hearted rapacity, the literary hack, or devil, or ghost, is beginning to complain that he is sweated. It is not easy to know how much trath there is in his complaints, He avows that he is paid too little, but that sounds rather as if his work were not worth very much. It cannot be too generally known of all men and women who meddle with letters that ...

... 2?IIE THEATR?. m. BR[IL&ERD ANSFIEIW AT XlIE LYCIEUM Aft er nnuch mtan couvring and c ounter -mnanocea- v'ring, Mr. Richard Mansfield has succeeded in I out-distancing his rival, Mr. ]3sndmtann, anda has presented himself to the English pubhoc in c a version of tho Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll o and Mr. EHydo a good forty-eight hours before I anybody else. This effort, whbich for a moment o ...

... TEE CORONER. A Drama, in a Prologue and Four Acts, by J. W. Hemming and Cyril Harrison, played for the First Time at the Theatre Royal, Bath, on Saturday, Aug. 4th, 18s8. CHARACTERS IN THE PRooeLOU. Daddy Goodman ?? Mr WALTER PRESCOTT Mike Redford ?? Mr J. E. DANIELS Charlie Redford ?? Mr E. HEMlINe Gerald Grey, Esq ?? ?? PERCY GwYaNN Maude Grey ?? Miss MAY ROWERMAN CHARACrTRS IN THE DRAMA. ...

... PRINOEBS'S THEATR1? Tlho-engine-housel ocene in Act iiu,, says the Hs programme of the now American play entitled The pfi Still Alarm, wbich was performed for the firt timo of beforeoan English audience at the Princess's Theatre atn last night, lean correot copy of the Central Fire Station th in Nev York City, and the harnessing of the horses to olh the engine and departuro for the 'dre is ...

... THE DRAMIA IN PAR.IS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, THURs'DAY, AUG. 2.-An announcement was lmade urbi et orbi a few months ago that the adminis. e trator of the Comedie-Frantaise intended reducing the forces of the establishment considerably, and that several of the young troop, the pensionna irces, were to be struck off the roll. Whether such a measure be really called for is a ...

... (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, THURSDAY, AUG. 16.-We have reached the utter stillness of midsummer stagnation, and as the sun reappeared during the week, bringing with him a very CO sultry temperature, the theatres have been next to hr deserted. A continuation of the d~huts of two young actresses at the Franqais offered the only approach to in novelty or interest. Mdllie. Rachel Boyer is ...

... TWO PASTO 'RAL PLAYS. -4- Dl. ThL-sdore de Banville's one-act comedy Le Baiter after first seeing the light upon the boards of the TIbdtre Libre, au amateur theatre in Paris, was, onl May lit) last, given a hearing at the Th&Atre Franqais, with DL C qteiinx cadet as Pierrot and Mdiie. Reichem- berg as the Fairy Urgble. On Tuesday afternoon last Lady Arcblcit~d Campbell tried the experiment of ...