... PAPRISIAN MUSIC HALL GOSSIP. LAST week being the Grand Prix de Paris week, every manager was on his mettle, and one may say the Parisian music halls are in full swing. The best turns have been retained on meat of the programmes, and the least important have been replaced by more attractive shows. THE Nouveau Cirque has not altered its first-rate programme, the foremost numbers being the ...

... DICK WHITTINGTON at the PAValION. (SECOND NOTICE.) ?? isaac Cohen, after all the anxiety, work, arid worry ittendant upon tite production of a moderii pan- tominie, is to some axtent recompensed hy the know- ledge that Dirk lvhfdigtt eii is an unquestionable sAuccess, and that business at the Mile-end house is remarkably brisk. On making a secood ?? to the Pavilion one evening this '.eek we ...

... TEE ERA LETTER-BOX. AStamnp I Envelope, plaiinly addresse~d, mu~st Ile enclosed | nh application for each Letter. Letters, after lying at this 0//tee for One Morth, aro forwardeod to the Postat Authorities, to be retired to the Senaers. ho Circulars admrtted to this List. Addersly, Mr F. Ames, Mr Percy Ando, Mr H. Andree and Golden Ardel, Mr Tommie Arnelli, Madame Arnette, Mr Walter Athos ...

... The annual general meeting of the Terriers' Associa- tion was held at the Three Stags, 69, Kenniigton-road, on Thursdav afternoon, when Mr HEN RY BARNARD Was voted to the chair. After making some preliminary remarks, he called upon Mr CECIL MtErRric, the secretary, to read the minutes of the past few meetings-which were Dassed-and the receipts and expenditure account, From thit statement of ...

... 0I TO THE EDITOR OF' THE EllA. S wir- am afraid that, in a wealthy country, the ef which has overtaken the Plavgoers' Club, and mn which you lament, Fooner or later overtakes all such s enterprises. 'Tis true, 'tis pity ; pity 'tie 'tis true. 5 Art and Bohemianism (I use the latter word in its a agreeable and not its mere vagabond meaning) need not rs starve in a garret and be out at elbows ...

... H ?? - I - ?? - ?? - I SATURDAY, SEPI'EMBER 2'd, 100. A(TIE$SE8 SALARIES. A curious correspondence has been carried on recentlv in the coluisns of a contemporary respect- inn the salaries of actresses. Thc opinions expressed arc, as migit be expected, various. ( )ne correspondent, K. ?? B. states that 'pretty barmaids who know as mucih about acting as they dlo aboit (Ireek can -ct engagements ...

... After being closed for some three months for reno- vation and repairs the Royal Court Theatre, Bacup, was once more opened to the public on the 50th ult., and everyone present expressed admiration of the beautiful interior. The house was crowded, and there is little doubt that the enterprise displayed by Mr Charles Darrell, the present lessee and mana- ger, will meet with a fitting reward. The ...

... (FROM A SPEOUAL CORRESPONDENT.) There is but one record from the fair grounds of Great Britain this Bank Holiday-spoiltbeyondremedy bythe rain. ?? at Longsight last week, with but a few exceptions, were found this week at the ancient Blockley Wakes (one of the Manchester suburbs). The aggregation of talent and enterprise included the well-known Whiting combina- tion, Hursts, Halliday, Dyer, ...

... ' WVALL- STREET; OR, THE MAKING OF A PRE9IDENT. A Tragedy, in Four Acts. By D. T. CALILAHAN, M.D. New York: Cambridge Encyclopedia Co. Dr. Callahan calls his play a tragedy, but there iq nothing more tragic in it than the purloining of ani important document by an adventuress, and its subse- quent recovery by the lover of the girl to whose father the stolen paper belongs. rhe author s ...

... les MURRAY CARSON AS JULIUS C -S:'AtR. ., - ,Le Sir __ TO THEP EDITOR OF T11E ER. .0 Sir,-I notice this week some critical r l ae to the phyeical fitness of Mr Carson for to_, i ' e' Julius Ciesar, as well as some compiri.ws i ![Vs! ae between this actor's make up ' for the pt I ' well known bust in the British Mus, :, . comparisons and remarks are most lpertinentoi! g, strike anyone ...

... (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) THEATRE ROYAL.-Proprietor and Manager, Mr H. J. Worswick.-Messrs Dottridgetand Longden's com- panies always receive hearty welcomes here, and this week has proved no exception to the rule, for the house has been well filled nightly to witness the excellent pro- duction of The Terror of Paris. Mr Forbes Knowles makes the most of M. Dumont. whilst Mr E. W. Bretton ...

... (ILLUSTRATED. MR. W. J. ANDREWS. At the Belfast Theatre Royal as well as at the Grand Opera House the reins of acting-management are in the hands of Mr W. J. Andrews, and to successfully fill that position in two first-class provincial theatres speaks well for the excellent business qualities of the subject of this sketch. Mr Andrews has never had serious aspirations to becume an actor, ...