... 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 ...

... (ILLUSTRATED.) MI/SS CONSTANCE ELGIN. MISS CONSTANCE ELGIN began her dramatic career about flve years ago as a pupil of Edmund Tearle. Then she joined W. S. Hardy's Shakespearian company, and had a round of hard work, playing Celia, Jessica, Lady Anne, the Player Queen. the Gentlewoman, &c. Her next engagement was with the late Miss Alleyn, whom she understudied-playing Juliet in her absence ; ...

... TEE IRVING THEATRE, SEACOMBE. The greatest interest is being shown in the erection and prospective opening of the new theatre at Sea- combe, Cheshire, on the shores of the Mersey, nearly opposite the great seaport of Liverpool. Energy and enterprise have been orought to bear on the erection of a new dramatic centre which is sure to secure the cordial patronage of a large residential population ...

... ? I 1 ?? L : t ; ?? .il? :lj?i , :4 1 SATURDAY, SEPT. 16, 1899. WAGNERIAN PROPERTIES. Travellers tell us that in India there is a certain class of conjurors who perform-or, rather, appear to perform-the most marvellous feats by the aid of mesmerism or hypnotism. They will that the spectators shall see a decapitated boy restored to life, or a man ascend into the air and disappear at the end ...

... The management of this popular house of entertain- ment has provided for this week a bill of more than usual attractiveness; in fact, such a brilliant array of talent in nearly every branch of legitimate variety busi- ness has seldom been brought together in Nottingham. The performance of the Bandurria Troupe created much enthusiasm. They are probably as artistic exponents of the mandoline and ...

... MR. LESLIE STUART. MR LISLIE STUART, generally admitted to be one of the most popular song-writers of the day, his composi- tions being at the present time sung and played as the songs of the day, in every part of the world where English is spoken, was born in Southport just over thirty years ago. He has had a career most varied, a record of which could be made extremely interesting if ...

... DAPHNIS IT CHLOE, Lyrical Comedy, In Three Acts, Words by MM. Jules and Pierre Barbier, Music by M. Henri Mar6chal, produced at the Thiatre Lyrique (Renaissance), Nov. 8th, 1899. Daphnis ?? . H. M. ANDaRMU PbiFMMt . ?? - SOULACROIX ?? ?? K. Bor s Chlo6 ?? Mdlle. J. IZOILaRC La Nymphe Echo ?? Madame FRAIDAZ Msrtale .Madame L RICHARD (FROM OUR OWN CORRxSPONDENT.) PARIS, THURSDAY, NOV. 9.-A ...

... 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 ...

... 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. ...

... 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 ...