... . ROMANCE is ever welcome on the stage, but when it is brought forward, great care should be taken to prevent a certain kind of reality from looking in to invite to ridi cule. We recognise the romantic when a gay cavalier-- young and handsome, of course stops-- beneath his lady's window, and stands upon his horse's saddle to exchange caresses with her whom he adores, and the romance, of course ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. A WIFE WITHOUT A SMILE, AT WYNDHAM'S THEATRE. Honi soit qui mal y pense, is what the apologists of A Wife Without, a Smile ask us to believe. But I am not one of the believers. I am, to my regret, a sinner who sees much that is unpleasant in Mr. Pinero's piece, and to those who tell us that to the pure all things are pure, I would reply that it is faulty play writing to ...

... . Br Vedette. I THOUGHT it would not be very long before Mr. George Edwardes, who sees as well as most people which way the cat is jumping, followed the fancy of the moment for children's plays. The production which, at any rate in theory, is devised specially for the entertainment of youth ful playgoers, has the advantage of providing an excellent excuse and inducement for afternoon theatre ...

... . Judging from the interest and enjoyment evidently taken on Tuesday afternoon in Mr. Mollison's revival of As You Like It, one cannot help fancying that he would have done better to rely upon it as the principal feature of his season. Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush is not the piece for patrons of the St. James's, whatever may be its unsophisticated merits, whereas there is always an audience ...

... . The Meynell is one of the oldest existing packs, the country being mostly grass, and occupying all of Derbyshire that is huntable west of the Derwent, together with a well- wooded portion of Staffordshire. It is touched on the south by the South Staffordshire the Trent dividing the two it runs over the Trent to meet the Atherstone, and again returns within the river at the fork formed by the ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. NAUGHTY NANCY. THERE is something in the locality and character of a theatre, but not everything; for people will occasionally go a long way to get what they want in the matter of entertain ment, as they did, for example, when, attracted by Emily Soldene, they went from all parts to the old Philharmonic. It was quite a surprise to the prodigiously good folk of Islington, ...

... THE Omniscients, Limited, having expressed their opinion upon the questions at issue between the Garrick Theatre and Printing House-square, it is obvious that no other donkey need any longer bray. I am glad to know this, for, of course, it relieves me personally, and I am not anxious to make myself appear even more stupid than is natural to me, simply because other people choose to do foolish ...

... . TERRY'S THEATRE was reopened on Tuesday evening under the management of Mr. E. H. Bull. The fortunes of the house have not been too brilliant of late, and we fear that success is not likely to be restored by the new and original musical extravaganza in two acts, written by W. H. Risque, furnished with music by Edward Jones, and called The Thirty Thieves. The Thirty are a very fine lot of ...

... DRAMA OF Til 10 YEAR. IT has just been discovered Hint the money lost in theatrical business during the last twenty years would have more than paid the cost of the original Army Corps sent out to South Africa in November, 1899. The discovery is not a very important one, for it might with equal truth he said that the sum lost in a score or so of other different enterprises would have covered ...

... IT would seem, after all, that within a few years the theatrical hub of Western London will be found not far removed from that very Shaftesbury-avenue whose first experiments proved so unpromising. Mr. Lancaster and Mr. D'Oyly Carte were the pioneers, but others are reaping the profit of their pluck and enterprise, for the district has gradually be come recognised by the amusement-seeking ...

... DRAMA OF THE WEEK. MAMMA AT THE CRITERION. The Noble Lord, having finished its career at the Criterion --a career that was attended with more success than was promised on the first night of production-- there was revived on Tuesday Mr. Sydney Grundy's amusing adaptation of MM. Bisson and Mars' farcical comedy, Les Surprises du Divorce, which he called Mamma. This first saw the foot lights ...

... AT the Criterion Theatre last week we once more found ourselves among the nobility-- it is difficult nowadays to go to any theatre and not find oneself among the nobility. It would seem as though actors and actresses-- especially those with a voice in management-- can no longer be happy on the stage without a title. One can but be sorry at their anxiety to represent a class of society in which ...