... 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. ...

... BCuEAu Ec HANGE SPECIALLY RECOMMENDED. HANDS and CO., 16, STRAND, CHARING-CROSS RULWAY STATION, LONDON. W.C. Mrs HANDEL tn6e Fanny Courtenay) Recommen~ds ROBINSON'S PATENT BARLEY ( A FINE POWDER ) ?? : (A FINE POWDER) to her Fellow Artists as the Very Best BABIES' FOOD. BABY CAN BE LEFT IN COMEORT. R OBINSON'S PATENT BARLEY. A FINE POWDER. R OBINSON'S PATENT BARLEY. A FINE POWDER ...

... This handsome and commodious new theatre of varieties, whiwh is to be opened ont Easter Monday, has been erected by the London District Empire Palaces, imited, of which the chairman is Ur H. E. Moss, and the ma aging-director Mr Oswald Stoll. The new building is situated in the Broadway, and consider- ing that there exists no other hail of varieties in Stratford-a district as thickly populated ...

... (FROM OUR OWN CORR MPAnR'lvT (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) THEATRE ROYAL. -Resident Manager, Mr W. F. Mor- ?? a most successful week of grand opera, Mr Morton rings the changes this week with a stirring melodrama from the pen of Ben Landeck, A Soldier i and a -an. The play is very well constructed, and is a notable for a strong and healthy sentiment that pre-s vails. Miss Naomi Neilson and Mr ...

... -ILES TRUANDS, Drama, in Five Acts, in Verse, by Jean Richepin Produced at the OddQn, on Wednesday, March 22d. Robin Costeau ?? M. DECORt Jehan De Conflan ?? CORNAG.LA Thibault ?? M JANvIEa Ifichault ?? ?? M. DORIVAL Estouteville ?? M. CIALIS Marion .. ?? Madame TESSANDIiR, La Mignote ?? dle. LARPARCERIN ?? dle. CHAPRLAS ?? lle. DALTi {FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, THURSDAY, MARCH 23.-M ...

... This handsome and commodious new theatre of varieties, which is to be opened on Easter Monday, has been erected by the London District Empire Palaces, Limited, of which the chairman is Mr H. E. Moss, and the managing-director Mr Oswald Stoll. The new building is situated in the Broadway, and consider- ing that there exists no other ball of varieties in Stratford-a district as thickly populated ...

... Besides the gratifying circumstance that there was an overflowing and enthusiastic audience present at her benefit on Friday week, at the Prince of Wales's Theatre, Liverpool, Miss Vesta Tilley had further proof of her highly artistic services as Dick Whittington in the presentation of several tokens of personal esteem by her many friends. She was assisted on the stage bv several willing ...

... (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) r NEW YORK, FaB. 22.-Lord and Lady Atgy made g an emphatic hit at the Empire Theatre on the 14th r inst., and present indications are that the success it has achieved in London will be fully duplicated on this side. There is also the pleasing fact to record that it e has added materially to the reputation of the two leading members of the Empire ?? Jessie a ...

... -I SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1899. THE STOCK COMPANY CRAZE. The extraordinary attack on provincial actors and provincial managers which was made by Mr FRAN1K CORzoN at the Playgoers' Club meeting on Sunday last hardly deserves serious notice, and his statements were so absurd that his lecture is lecture is not worth printing. It was a mere scurrilous effusion, and the speaker himself had to ...

... MUSIC IALL GOSSIP. v 'L - | Pu t'FWARPS Of 200 gentleman have already sent in their Ti names to be Onl the committee of the Jolly Nash testi- Sa nauI. I All tihe managers, including Sir R. Irving. Flu onoa Wyn Edward Terry, Wilson Barrett, toi Cnhe Brrih, H. r. Brickwell, Arthur Collins, Zo and lrs Laile are on the list. The clergy are also in we enidence ItThe Reverend Professor Shuttleworth ...