... THE OXFORD. A holiday season coming, be it in winter or be it in summer, never finds Mr J. H. Jennings napping. Like other weary mortals, we presume, he is occasionally inclined, with a certain Sancho Panza, to cry blessings on the man who first invented sleep; but when business is to be done he is always very much wide-awake, and he gets the reward of his watchfulness and energy in liberal ...

... THE Gaiety burlesque Buy Blos and the Blasd Bouereached its hundredth night on Thursday last, the house being crowded from floor to ceiling with a most enthusiastic audience. Ar. odd incident was the sudden extinction of the electric light at half-past nine o'clock, and gas had to be used for the rest of the evening, in spite of which the sacred lamp of burlesque continued to burn during the ...

... ?? SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1890. STAGE ACCIDENTS. The truth of the moral contained in the fable of the boy who cried Wolf ! has been exemplified by the feeling with which we first read the announcement of Madame SARAH BEcRNHARDT'S accident at the Porte-St.-Martin Theatre last Sun- day night. Madame BERNHARDT, who was rehearsing in the new play Jeanne dAre, had to ascend a funeral pyre, which ...

... Miss Millward, who is now distinguished in the United States bv her Christian name, Jessie, recently suffered sadly from the resentment of an unscrupulous and inventive New York interviewer. In a paper published in that city the following appeared in an imaginary interview with the actress. As a matter of fact, Miss Millward had refused to see the would-be interviewer, who thereupon concocted ...

... A Stamped Enveloye, plainly addrcssed, muet be enclosed with appliiation for each Letter. Letters, after tying at thie Office for One Month, are forwarded to the Postal Authorit ee, to be dealt with in the ordinary course. No Circoulars admitted to this List. Abrihams, Miss Kate Knox and Attwell Albert, Miss MattiO Lambert, MifS Blanche Albert, Mr James Langtrv, Madame Almo, Mr Jake Lanner, ...

... The activity of the past musical year has been great, although there has not been much striking novelty presented. The most prominent feature was the revival of Italian opera-or opera in Italian- at Covent-garden under Mr Augustus Harris's able control. The operas now supplied on the Italian stage come from all the countries of Europe, and have long ceased to be exclusively Italian. There was ...

... At the recent ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the New Prince of Vales's Theatre of Varie- ties (late Paul's), at Leicester, by Mrs Lovejoy, there were present Mr Lovejoy, Bliss E. Lovejoy, Master Walter Lovejoy, Horace A. Lovejoy, E. Winifred Low-joy, Letty Lovejoy, Mr and Mrs Ingham, solicitor H Percival, architect, and Mrs Percival, and numerous friends and neigbbours. The stone ...

... ALLEYN-BERNARD.-Wrexham. ALONE IN LONDON.-St. James's Theatre, Manchester. A MAD PASSION.-Theatre Royal, Blyth. A NOBLE BROTHER.-Her Majesty's T., Aberdeen. ARABIAN NIGHTS.-Theatre Royal, Grantham. ARABIAN NIGHTS-Drill Hall, Nuneaton. BACK FOM THE GRAVE-Alexandra Theatre, Widnes. BANDMANN.PALMER.-Theatre Royal, Dumfries. BEATRICE CO.-Theatre Royal, Ipswich. BELLS OF HASLEMERE.-Winter Gardens, ...

... TIHE DRAMATIC YEAR. As usual, with the close of the old year and the beginning of the new, we look back through the months that have passed away, and, taking stock, are glad to be able to say we find little cause for discouragement and much cause for con- gratulation. From the pens of well-known writers and from the lips of influential patrons of the stage has recently gone forth the cry ...

... THEE TIVOLI, LIMITED. The first annual general meeting of the shareholders was held at Whitehall Rooms, Hotel M1tropole, on Monday last, Mr HENRY J. LESLIE presiding. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, congratulated the shareholders upon the fact that all difficulties had been surmounted, that there was no ground for further anxiety, but every justification for hoping that the ...

... ALLEYN-BEENAaD.-Derby. ALONE IN LONDON.-Blyth. A MAN'S SHADOW.-Her Majesty's, Aberdeen. A NOBLE BROTHrER.-Winter Gardens, Southport. ARABIAN NIGBTS.-Theatre Royal, Gsoole. BACK FROM THE GRAVE.-Theatre Royal, Oldham. BALLOON, THE.-Theatre Royal, Colchester. BANDMANN PALMER.-Theatre Royal, Belfast. BEATRICE Co.-Theatre Royal, Kings Lynn. BELLS OF HASLEMEIE.-T. B., Ashton-under-Lyne. BISHOP OF ...

... % SATURDAY, JAN. 11, 1890. LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY. A most interesting correspondence, if it can be I called a correspondence in which the communica- i, tion is all on one side, has been appearing for some months past in the St. James's Gazette, F with respect to the originality of the story of Mrs HOD GSON BURNETT s novel Little lord Faunt- leroy. It seems that some years before its ...