... ToM G. WARRY.-The play bcoeoesfree afterfiorti teo year-.. fromn the first publication, or after seceen years fromto ti anthor's death. whichever ter .shall be the longer. W. PRATT.-Yotr lady fricnd was Mistaken. He hag neeoer appeared in the play mentioned. A. BHatNreGIwAV.-(I) Yes. A copy of every new piece ?? beforwarded for licewce to the lfeawinor .f 1Ptays aene& clear days before ...

... The fourth annual meeting of the Actors' Orphanage Fund was held yesterday at the Haymarket Theatre. Mr GEORGE ALEXANDER presided. The report of the committee showed that last year seven additional children were taken in hand by the Fund, bringing up the total of boys and girls now being cared for by the profession to twenty-eight. The average entire cost of each child, including the working ...

... 'e TO THE EDITOR OF CuE ERA i Sir,-I cannot understand the ?? ot the A.A. to e increase the forty weeks' qualification to eighty. I ,think. if anyone wilt work the matter out, of eighty d weeks' employment they will find it means at least two d years, possibly four or more. Few can count on forty weeks work in a year. It imy sound strange, but I . know a member who was elected who, as far as I ...

... THE TERRIERS' .ULL. lis It was pleasant to note that the annual fancy anll en evening dress ball of the Terriers-tbe tenth functio,, fsa of the kind-not only drew a large crowd of the pr, wce fession to the Trocadero on Thursday evening, but that ret those who came caught the lightsome spirit ot mirth- rot fit companion for Terpsichore-and thoroughly enio ed di themselves. When we find so many ...

... (SPECIALLY REPORTED FOB THE ERA.) The usual weekly meeting of the County Council was held on Tuesday afternoon at the County flail, Spring-gardens, Mr DICKINSON presiding. THE CRYSTAL PALACE. The Theatres and Music Halls Committee reported:- We have considered a plan submitted by Mr H. Gill- man of a temporary stage whichitisproposedtoerectat the Crystal Palace for the cafe chantant ...

... TER B&NCROFT A.D.C. The pleasure derived by a crowded and fashionable audience at St. George's Hlall on Monday evening from a representation of Mr Oscar Wilde's play about a good woman, Lady Windermere's Fan, first given at the St. James's in the February of 1892, was generally and frequently demonstrated. It was the twenty-third invitation performance of the club associated with the ...

... (FROM OUR AMERICAN CORRESPONDENT.) NEW YORK, APRIL 25.-The time is approaching when those who seek indoor amusements will have to depend upon the attractions at Tony Pastor's, Keith's. and Proctor's Palace and Twenty-third-street Theatres. Variety thrives in New York when the drama is shelved, and the desire for its lighter diversions has grown until the continuous to a certain extent over ...

... A plinate reading of JtiU to, the play v i'icl the censor retof-ed to licelnco last week, wvv ?? a%- -i tie Victoria Hall, Uax swater. on Monodsla atrt oi w 'I he joint author' of thel pieceare Mrs MN. 1rtie i tloll, an Americall Witv' , alitl MIr A cton hunt1 at:l ' rw ' tlur frienrils of CI tiiri read th( diftt'riot Is in Il; cast, seate(l oil tie stage of thi Victoria hi!1 ti!er 'a8 well ?? ...

... THE MOHIAWKS AT ST. .JAMESS HALL. I - The Mohawk Minstrels, who have for so many years deligbted audiences with their entertainment at the Agricultural Hall, appeared for the first time at the St. James's Hall. the old home of the Moore and Burgess Minstrels, on Monday. giving performances both after- noon and evening. Messrs William Francis and Harry Hunter, who announce that they have ...

... JiEIMANN VEZIN'S JUBILEE. A complinentatry dinner, under the direction of the llcil of the Glasgow Pen and Pencil Club and others, waC given to lilt Hermasin Vezin, at the Windsor Hotel, Glasgow, on the 11th inst., on the occasion of his jubilee s, en actor. The chair was occupied by the Hon. the LOnD PcOS' (Mlr Samuel Chisbolim). lie Lohi) PuovoST, in proposing the toast of Our oCuet, said ...

... It is to be hoped that the continuous appeals which have been made upon the public on behalf of the absent-minded beggar and those he has left at home will not seriously affect the funds of deserving institutions which are dependent in a more or less degree upon voluntary contributions. Of these public institutions there is none that has stronger claims upon the consideration of the public ...

... BIRTHS, MARIAGES, AND DEATHS. BIRTH. BINGLEY.-Feb. 18th, the wife of Mr J. R. Bingley, musical director, Prince of Wales's fheatre, Great Grimsby, of a son. DEATHS. ALMAR.-Feb. 19th, at the residence of his sister, 10, Sidlan-terrace, Leeds, in his thirty-fourth year, C. Norman Almar, of phthisis, following Medi- terranean fever (contracted in Malta, 1898). For many years advance agent for ...