... Empress bad perforce to leave the shop without them. AN EGOTISTIC DRAMATIST. To-night is the great Baddeley cake function at Drury Lane Theatre. The occasion is an interesting one for people who cannot often fore- gather to meet once during the festive season ...

... unprece- dented. The donor of the £100,000 for a London Con valescent Hospital is a commoner ana a Cayman. It is said that Drury Lane when fuh, at paatu mime time, hold nearly £6,000 a week, The oldest Duke is the Duke of Cleveland-^ ageu 86; the youngest ...

... bis opera on a Scandinavian subject for the Carl Rosa Opera Company, and is ousily engaged in scoring it for pioduction at Drury-lane Theatre, where, we understand, Mr Augustus Harris will produce the work during the forthcoming season. A Cairo correspondent ...

... likely to take a practical form, that a benefit performance for Mrs Blanchard should be given shortly, in all likelihood at Drury-lane, with which the deceased author was so long and intimately associated. Unfortunately, Mr Toole, who was a very attached ...

... naturally a Aoyj 0ne for them, and several of the best es have been closed. Last night there a lenewal of activity. JJ OPERA. AT DRURY-LANE. ^08a°ry'lane reoPene(i f°r a season of Carl IVas ^Pera. Gounod's liomco et Juliette ^%l I.eU ^or the first time in London ...

... Kendall, and other. To Kendall is due the happy .suggestion that Merrick should be taken to see the Christmas PantolIllUW at Drury Lane. She engaged the Royal box she had him brought to the theatre, and took every precaution that no strange eye should soe ...

... THEATRICAL GOSSIP. ...

... necessitate his travel- ling to-merrow to Liverpool, Mr Irving would have taken part in the Blanchard benefit performance at Drury-lane to- morrow, to which I referred in my last letter. He has, however, promised a sub- stantial subscripti, n to the fund. ...

... MU FFRANGCON DAVIES. Mr Fr. ,Davioii's successful debut as the in Lohengrin, at the Drury-lane Iatre a little while ago, bis engagement for Ore important work was merely a question of It now appear* that Mr Davies has been for the principal part in ...

... with a pocketful of mtmey7is returning from Australia to play the lead in Messrs Pettitt and Harris's autumn drama at Drury Lane. The leading lady will be Miss Millward, so tbe representation should not suffer much from lack ot melodramatic experience ...

... have turned the hair of an ordinary bookmaker white. A MILLION OF MONEY.' Next Saturday the legitimate season will open at Drury-lane with the new drama by Mr Henry Pettitt and Mr Augustus Harris, entitled, A Million of Money, There may Ibe millions in ...

... having some- thing to do with the arrangements. Mean- while, rehearsals of A Million of Money are in active progress at Drury-lane. Last night the Daly Company concluded their season at the Lyceum, but, so satisfied is Mr Daly with this visit, that lie ...