... 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. CHARLES WYNDUAM AND THE I ARGONAUTS. ;e I Mr CharlesWyndhamwas entertained by the members Yof the Argonaut Club at dinner at the Hotel Cecil last ,Sunday. Mr H. A. JONES presided, and there were it also present Miss Mary Moore, Mr Frankfort Moore, e Mrs Beerbohm Tre-, Miss Juliet Nesville, Mr and Mrs e Lewis Waller, Mr Murray Carson, Miss Mabel Lewis, n Miss Helen Mar, Mr and Mr. Carl ...

... THE PROFE&S1ON AND THE WAR. The following subscriptions have been forwarded to the~ Daily Telegraph fund for the widows and orphans of the soldiers killed in the Transvaal :-Sir Squire and Lady Bancroft 1,000s, Mr Ben Davies 200s, Gaiety Theatre Company, Limited, management, artists, principals and chorus, orchestra, staff, &c., 1,400s; Queen's Hall orchestra and staff, per Tambourine, 210a; ...

... (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 ...

... fBY OUR SPECIAL COMMISSIONER.) Mr Sleath, though not greatly familiar to the London public, has had several years experience in the theatri- cal profession both in town and the country, and in undertaking the management of the Adelphi Theatre he began with his eyes open to the enormous responsi- bility before him; for the Adelphi is no easy house to control. It has, perhaps, the most ...

... ALADDIN AT THE PARKHUJRST. (sECOND NOTICE.) Perhaps the jolliest little hero in Christmas enter- tainments is Aladdin, and the extraordinary story of his adventures and his suddenly acquired riches appeals more readily to the hearts of callow youth than many of those chosen for the skeleton of a pantomime plot. The history of the Pekin urchin has been most deftly utilbsed for the Parkhurst, ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE ERA. Sir,-Paragraphs which have appeared recording the pulling down of the old Theatre Rojal, Swansea, seem to me to require correction. Charles Mathews could not have appeared in that theatre in 1795, because it was not opened until 1806. The theatre referred to in Mathews's letter of 179:5 was an earlier house on a totally different site. Mathews did, however, in 1816, ...

... TO THlE EDITOR OF IRE BRA. Sir,-The letters you published last week sufficiently disposed of Mr Thomas's claims to rights in an unauthorised dramatization of For the Term of His Natural Life. As solicitors acting on behalf of Messrs Macmillan, the owners of the copyright in the novel, we have written to Mr Thomas's solicitor, and await his reply. Meanwhile, as Mr Thomas has, through the ...

... e ALONE IN LoNDON. -Theatre Royal, Scarborough. I, AN EVIL LIFs.-Grand Theatre, Maidenbead. is AT DUTT'S CALL.-Royalty Theatre, Llanelly. - AT THE FOOT OF THE ALTAR.-Lyceum T., Newport. I. BANDMANN.PALMSIL MEs.-Pier Pavilion, Lytham. . BATEMAN, FRANK -Surrey Theatre. f BRACE OF PARTRIDGES.-Jubilee Hall, Weymouth. a BRIXTON BURGLARY.-Theatre Royal, York. e BROTHER OFFICBRS.-Weat Cliff Saloon, ...