... SLEEPING BEAEUTY AND iliE BEAST. Drury-lane's pantomime this year will be a composite production and a combination of one of the oldest fairy tales extant with one of somewhat modern growth. For although we are indebted to Madame Perrault for The Sleeping Beauty - La Belle au Bois Dormant -it is undoubtedly based upon the old Norse tale of Brynhild and Sigurd. Briefly, the story is ...

... ?? SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1900. | SHAKESPEARE AND TEMPERANCE. The character of Falstaff is well calculated to cause compunction in playgoers who, like a certain essayist politician, are in trouble about their souls. ' A good deal of sympathy and considera- tion is due to these analysts of their enjoyment. WVhat we laugh at, and whom we laugh with, are extremely important questions. They ...

... On Friday, the 2J inst., Mr C. F. Gill, QO0., applied for a new licence for music and dancing for the Hackney Empire, Oswald-street, Hackney. He said it was a new house built upon the plan of the various other houses of this character which had been erected in various parts of London. Mr Stoll, the proprietor, had spent a con- aiderable sum of money in the purchase of property, and in order to ...

... TDER VIELGEPRUFTE. Farce, in Three Acts, by W. Meyer-Fbrster, Produced at the Deutsehes, DeC. 91sr, 1899. Bootenmann ?? . Herr ENeeMsi Frau Bookemann ?? Frau VON POrCLNITZ Lilly. Fritulein JuRns0R Eitrchon.. Fritulein EErrTY Rauch ?? ?? Herr VOe WINTERSsRIN Niquet ?? .. Herr KAYsLsR, Der BHirgermeister ?? Herr REINIJARDT ?? Herr VAneursN ?? Herr MARTIa Rumpf ?? ?? Herr ScIawAomi. Blobel ?? . ...

... MISS B&TEMAN'S SCHOOL. Mliss Bateman (Mrs Crowe), who has just recently fiaished her remarkable performance of the aged Queen Elinor in AKrrnJohn, at Her Majesty's, took occasion, on the afternoon of Friday, the 5th inst., to assume another part--that of Lady Bountiful, a r6le with which this estimable lady is very familiar. On this occasion Miss Bateman's pupils gave highly enjoyable ...

... .. - 1-11 . - -, - - ?? ?? - , A i The hall in Villiers .etreet may not he so imposing in appearance as some of its neighbours, hut it continues to receive the steady patronage of those who are not attracted by elaborate decoration but are quite content to spend the evening iln a building which is cosy and comfortable, and where the entertainment provided is always excellent of its kind. ...

... ELOCUTION AND STA.Q, TRAINING. By MAXwELL RYDnx. Londoni. Thomas Burleigh, Cecil-court, Charing-cross-road. Price, 5s. net. It seems strange that in the dawn of the twentieth century the most earnest students and the staunchest lovers of the English stage are still pleading for a study of elocution; it is even stranger when the critic has to admit that never was there greater necessity for ...

... A CHAT WITH PERCIVAL HYATT. (BY OUR SPECIAL COMMISSIONER.) The variety agent, or, better still, the agent for varieties in the entertainment world, is bound to be a man of parts, and Mr J. F. Percival Hyatt is certainly a man of varied qualities and varied connections. The world of acrobats and mountebanks and the circus, as Messrs Hugues, Le Roux, and Jules Garmier explained so cleverly in ...

... (FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) At Leicester Fair the Collins's combine, with their many attractions, held the premier position. Collins's menagerie, gondolas, galloping horses, and Cinemato- graph show were admired. Mr James Norman with Savage South Africa ' illustrated and the flying ostriches fully maintained his reputation. The switch- back and gondola concerns of Twigdon did good busi- ...

... CRYSTAL PAICI U CoM PANY. The half-yearly general irreeting of the Crystal Palace Company was held on Thursday at the Cannon-street Hotel. Mdr ESMST SCiIENi, who presided, observed that there were many reasons which rendered his duty exceptionally unpleasant on that occasion. The burden of responsibility tor the recent reorganisation of the company, the provision of the 100,000 of new capital, ...

... ACTOIlls' [1,EN[:WlENT FUND. W ii hI'I,I oow~11- . Ilgh~t Ioiithe' Whiteliall Rloomos eol the Htotel Me'tropoie. Mr t il lls-: ALUXAiN 511F, ,IhO lhad chis1 I thlt st. 'Im'll'. atrl for the eleniirg, soihiln thet corniol,- vimis' r.I1 oveir 2(HI. Thi Followli gi Ilti'it III,1 itcepe'tl 1lil~tatlilo A nkl 01, , Mei Iri Castrell, WVI. Mor'l, il. 11. Aitle, Hor,!ill'itl Oil, cI !ni~ Morgan, ...

... MESSRS BORWICK AND PLUNKET GREENE S RECITAL. Under thze direction of Mr Adlington the first song and pianoforte recital by Messrs Leonard Borwick and Plunket Greene took place at St. James's Hall on the 9th inst. Mr Borwick commenced with a series of pianoforte works by the elder masters. He played Bach's Fantasie in C minor, Handel's Caprice in G. an Arietta bv Leonardo Leo, a Harpsichord ...