... already completed three acts of the new opera which he has been commissioned to write for the ensuing Carl Rosa season at Drury Lane. The libretto, which is from the pen of Mr. Joseph Bennett, deals with a characteristic Scandinavian sub- ject, and is founded ...

... being as brilliant as scenic art and lavish expei diture could provide. Mr. Oharles Harris, whose rank as stage- manager at Drury Lane and the Gaiety well fitted him to undertake the task, has organised the processions and dances in excellent fashion; and ...

... great autocrat; Augustus Harris, who holds the magnetiser's wand to draw people to his house, stands first upon the list. Drury Lane isfilled every night, although people have to grope their way through the darkness to the doo. . The benefit of the noise ...

... in e tthe legitimate drama. Mr. War-ner has received an offer fr fom Mjr. Augutu Harris to return home and reappear at Drury Lane in the October drama of 1880; but ab present his movements are undecided, as he contemulates as athird return visit to Melbourne ...

... con- tinued to act, playing in his o-wn theatres and also accepting egemns at others He played with GustavuseBrook-a a.11t Drury Lane, and after- wards, in conjunction with the late Walter Mont- gomery, became lessee of the Haymnarket Theatre, I in London ...

... was fifty-four years of age, had had a very adventurous life. When about seventeen years old he joined Smith's Circus from Drury Lane, which was visit- ing Chelmsford, and at Ranisgate he got an en.agement as bottom densman at Wombwell's No. 2 Menagerie ...

... - -: ~GLEANINGS. Calais was lost 332 years ago on Monday. It is said thab Drury Lane Theatre, when ,fill at pantoiie tune, holds nearly £56,000. per week. A Reuter's telegram from Las Palmas, Canaries, states that the British training squadron has sailed ...

... all know, is illegal. Still, ir. Augustus Harris defies the lawr and exhibits every evening until further notice, at Drury Lane Theatre, a cock-fight of the most amusing kind, one of the best things in an excellent piece. There are no artificial spurs ...

... salaries r were £1,500. ; and the names of the director s (Mr. LEsTsu) and the stage manager (MEE. CasnLSs If HAraIs, late of Drury Lane), should be a sufficient h guarantee for the excellence of the management. r In spite of these many advantages, unfortunately ...

... Berlin. The concert will be held in the Sheldonian Theatre. Lord Mayor Isaacs will be installed as Worshipful Master of the Drury Lane Lodge of Freemasons next Tuesday, upon which occasion a new anthem, specially composed by Mr. Alfred J. Caldicott, the organist ...

... instances ill theatrical history of strange ups and downs in actors' lives, but there has seldom been a stranger instance than Drury Lane is new affording. A gentleman who many years ago took the leading part at this theatre for two successive seasons is now ...

... and Broadway was sold by auction on Friday, and was knocked down for £200,000. The pecuniary result of the performance at Drury Lane on Friday for the benefit of the es-employds of Her ?? Theatre is roughly estimated, the Era says, at £P350. At Birmingham ...