... (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) GRAND THEATRE. - Managing-DireCtOr, Mr Jto. Hart; General Manager, Mr Fredk. Vioeent.-Me8,es Morell and Mouillot's company is making a welorme return visit here in The Geisha, the popular conic opera having a big reception before a crowded house on Monday night. Miss JessicaLait isO Mimosa San, and her interpretation is a very charming one, whilst she, too lacks ...

... A MUSIC HALL. ARTISTS AGREEMENT. In the Westminster County Court, on Tuesday, at action was brought by Messrs Didcott (Limited), before his Honour Judge Lumley Smitb, Q.C., to recover £11 13s. 4d. commission from Mr Leonard Barrv, for obtaining certain engagements for him. Mr A. H. Cannot was counsel for the plaintiff, and Mr G. 5r. Cohen, instructed by NVm Smith Gufton, of 16, Mlark-lane, E.C ...

... AMMUSEMENTS IN BIRMINGHAM. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) THEATRE ROYAL.-Lessae and Manager, Mr Charles Dornton.-Cinderella is leading a merry existence. What else could be expected, indeed, with a Cinderella so attractive as Miss Lilv B. Sinclair and a Prince of the charms of Miss Vera Patey ? Miss Margaret Ruby is a splendid Quillini and the Dandini of Miss Ada Willoughby is sprightliness ...

... C 0 L I N E T T E. (FROMa OUR NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT.) Colinette,with Miss Julia Marlowe in the title-role, was presented for the first time in this city at the Knicker- bocker Theatre last Monday. and was accorded a very favourable reception. The piece was first performed in Philadelphia last February. Cohinette is a translation by H. a. Carleton from the French of Le No re and Martin. The ...

... ROBESPIERPRE. Volumes could be written about Robespierre, the man of the sea-green complexion, the implacable and impotent, for he has been represented and misrepre- sented by many authors, fascinated by the subject of the First Great Revolution. Carlyle seems to have gone out of his way to vilify him in The French Revolution, for bad as Robespierre was he was not altogether devoid of good ...

... With one consent the project of a farewell compli- mentary benefit to Mr Jolly John Nash was taken up by the heads of the theatrical and variety professions, with the result that the Tivoli was thronged on the afternoon of Monday last by a very large number of the admirers of the doyen comique of the music halls. Mr Nash was in the hey-day of his fame when the world went crazy over the old ...

... I With reference to the eleventh Theatrical Gala, which took place last week on the ground of the Liver- pool Football Club, Anfield, in aid of three local medical charities and three theatrical and musical benevolent schemes, it is announced that the amount taken at the gates was nearly g260, and the floral and sales department, which was conducted by artistes from the local places of ...

... RANA, FOR POSE. That is Mr HEana's trade mark and standing adver- tisement- Hana, for Pose, and the profession are well acquainted with the quality of his works. But, though Mr Hana is ever studious of drama subjects, there is one department in which he stands almost unrivalled, and that is the difficult art of posing and photographing children, of whom be turns out quite the most natural ...

... THE MAN IN THE IRON MA.SK. r A Pomantic Drams, in Five Acts, 1, Suggested by an Episode in a The Vicomte De Bragelonne e of. Alexandre Dunas, If Played for the First Time at the Adelphi Theatre, ,, on March 11th, 1b99. e Louis ?? M OMNras e Philippe Marchiail.. ?? FuRBES S Due De Vermandoi .Miss VALLI VALLI S Cardinal Mazarin ?? Mr CHARLIS SuDENa g Monsieur D'lierblay . . Mr W. H. VzaLeo ...

... i? 1A SEWldAN %OJ RD. - (F'Ro sA PGcrAOOCORESPOENyWT):' - 1 -RBury March Fair,' as the jbanas~hireosh0WiD55 teno it, is intimately. hound up *itchthe observance of ?? or Mothering ' Sunday. -The-modern show- man, whether-he knows it or not, is deeply indebted to these old Church festivals. Bury has been famous, for centuries for its Qbservance of Simnel or Mother- ing Cake Sunday. ...

... Mr Osman Edwards, in a very interesting lecture on the above subject to the Playgoers' Club at the Hotel Cecil on Sunday last, said :-The Japanese stage com- bines with esthetic charm mnore lofty attributes. It has always aspired to instruct and elevate the masses. It teaches history better than the schoolmaster, and morality better than the priest. Its performances for nearly three centuries ...

... A ratirme benefit for the Seaford Convalescent Eo~pital was gi'en at the Coronet Theatre, Notting. hill 'to Monday. and the long and varied pro- gralime attracte i a large audience, all the higher. i.Ie in the house being occupied. In the course r tile afttrtoon the Rlev. Dr. Donald M'Leod, one of ?? ttwirbers of the committee of management, '1ore the curtain and made a statement rioe rlig rhe ...