... (ILLUSTRATED). MISS EMILY LEVETTEZ. Miss EAILY LEvzTTEz was not born upon the stage, but began her theatrical career at a very early age, playing children's parts and serving her apprenticeship with Mr F. Neebe in stock seasons at Exeter and Bath theatres. She then toured with Mr L. J. Sefton's Pygmalion anid Galatea company, and was for three years with Mr W. Duck's repertoire company, ...

... (BY OUR SPECIAL COMMISSIOfER.) The actors' season is generally understood to be forty weeks at work and twelve weeks at play-that is, as far as London contracts go. But few actors and fewer actor-managers are able to devote as much as three months to holiday-making, but at this season of the year, when only half-a-dozen theatres are open out of thirty, it is very certain that our chief ...

... (FROM SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS,) The Manchester suburban round of wakes began in glorious weather last Saturday at Longsight. The fair ground is in the centre of a vast industrial and mercantile population. The around lessee, Mlr John Whiting, and his capable colleague and re~spnsible manager, Mr R. Dixon, set in magnificent ariav the great contingent of shows, machines, anl I other novelties ...

... (ILLUSTRATED). M11ISS ESME BERINGER. Miss ESMK BEBINGER, the second daughter of Mrs Oscar Beringer, made her first appearance on the stage as a child as Dick theShoeblack, in Little Lord FaunUe- roy. also understudying her sister Vera it. the title- rhle. She also played Amy (Mrs Kendal's part), in The Hard Struggle. After the run of Little Lord Fauntleroy Miss Beringer returned to the school ...

... By LilBUT.-COL. NrWNHAM-DAVIS. London: Grant Richards. The gallant Lieut.-Col., whose name as a humourist is well known to our readers, is one of those cheery optimists that can only he found in the higher regions of Bohemia, which may he described briefly here as a cultured country, bound on the east by the Strand and on the west by Piccadilly. On any subject he must of necessity be ...

... Xl PALWCE OF VARIETIES. e When an audience can be roused to a pitch of enthu- e siasm with the thermometer at ninety degrees in the it shade, there must be something above the ordinary in n the performance. Yet such was the case at the Palace W on Monday night, and the applause conceded the several r artistes was ample testimony to their talent. Shining . with conspicuous brilliance among the ...

... PLAYERS 01' THE PERIOD. IT~~re~ (ILLUSTRATED,) MISS FANNY WRIGHT. Miss FANNY WRIGHT is the daughter of the late Charles Wright, who was the manager of the Haymarket Theatre, London. when the late Mr J. B. Buckstone was lessee of that hoase ; she is also a niece of the well-known Miss Fanny Wright, the dancer. Miss Wright started her professional career at the age of ten, and has been engaged ...

... I vif I PH S. Humphs ' is not exactly a dictionary word, though considering its origin and the meaning of the words, hum and humbug, it might easily have passed into the language. For in truth. like humbug, a humph was '-An imposition under fair pretences something contrived in order to deceive and mislead. Something contrived in order' is like a Websterian pun, a play upon words, ...

... (ILLUSTRATED.) MR. MARK MELFORD. We select this particular time to record the somewhat striking example of steady perseverance and determina- tion that has characterised the career of the prolific author whose name heads this article as appropriate to his return to the scene of his successes at the London Pavilion. After an exceptionally brilliant but brief tour (for Mr Melford is never absent ...

... l The famous black-faced team returned to their habitat at St. James's Hall on Saturday evening, when they presented a carefully-compiled and entertaining selection of new melodies and old in the first part, the second being brightened by an unusual number of novel incidentals. A capital introduction to the programme is found in the lively overture and chorus in Dark- town is out to-night, ...

... I'OPULAR COMPOSERS. (BY OUR SPECIAL CoMMirSSIONER.) HERR MEYER LUTZ. ALTHOUGH of German birth Herr Meyer Lutz has lived and worked in England practically all his life, and a quarter of a century of that life has been devoted not only to the Gaiety of London, but to the Gaiety of Nations. His first visit to this country was paid to Birmingham about 1846, where he conducted a series of concerto. ...

... MOHAWK MINSTRELS, This merry band ot minstrels, after their usual summer tour, returned to the Agricultural Hall for Bank Holiday, when they gave two performances, both of which were well patronised. The popularity of the Mohawks seems to rest upon a firm foundation; and there can be no question that Messrs William Francis and Harry Hunter are determined that no effort shall be wanting on ...