... will probably not be 'gi'n till II t I next autumn. Dr Stanfordi will -in al pro- is ! bability be the conductor. p - - The Drury Lane m nelodrama will be withdrawn ha t after the present weaL-, as the stage, of course, so is wanted for the heavy rehearsala ...

... tek Saturday afternoons it has been by no means un-a 1897. common to-see the house full boards dis-v 7 'cw!played. The Drury Lane pantomime also has, ' S -1 I understand, done. very well, and A Mid-: i IO sunimer Night's Dream at Her Majesty's -is ...

... productions of the, aie present week include Mr Lumley's play In asteSoup at the Strand on T~uesday,, Sweet at Nell of Drury Lane at the Haymnarket on sn Thursday, and -Mr Grundy's A Debt of Honour at tim St Jam.'a enQ Satwdnu ...

... Stainer's assistant as Inspector of Music in Elementary Schools under the Education Department. Sir Henry Irving's benefit at Drury Lane for the Galveston Fund has resulted in a profit ex- ceteding 1200. How much more will be avail- able will, of course, depend ...

... play gtg N!itocris, whvich, from the pen of the same agt tlever lady author, wvas produced by Sir Augustus as Ha~rris at Drury Lane some timeo ago. The t Globe also will a mnonth hence re-open with a'E mewr play entitled The Nurse, by Miss Graves,: ...

... opening of the theatrical Sr'so'i '-ii.-ls entices a. good- many' oosscir~et lose's awa,'v Irons Queen's 1-loll- In site new Drury' Lane piece certain so- called ''society ladies are, to he a!li'wed to cooss upon the stawge in the sucene oF kiss Fete at the ...

... auction perhaps the most interesting will be -a long series of diaries from 1747 to 1776, con- taming lists of. plays at Drury Lane (the ol 5 theatre which was burnt down, of course, and . not the present house), with notes on the actors F letters from ...

... long ab- sence. Miss Rehan had, it will be recollected, been engaged for the chief part in the last autumn melodrama at Drury Lane, but she begged off owing to the shock she sustained on the sudden death of her manager and friend, I M Nlr Augustin Daly ...

... Lewis. They were supposed to be 1written in competition for a prize offered for an addre;s to be spoken at the opening of Drury Lane Theatre, and, of course, supposed to have been rejveted, Nothing could be more felicitous of their kind, en l they beenle ...

... portfolio most now e so full that MIr Mlanners's piece may not be seen I sfor moe little time. C The production of the new Drury Lane drama a has now definitely been fixed for Saturday week. ?? T have already given some particulars of this) work, which bids ...

... Besides the scenes on the Terrace of the House of Commons and the swell weddiing at St George's, Haniover Square, the new Drury Lane piece will, I learn, reproduce the brilliant scone of a fashionable carnival night at The Niagara Skating Rink. There is ...

... kgcne of the piece takes place in the fourth act in a room at the palace at Whitehall: but the first act is laid outside Drury Lane Theatre at the time when Nell is an orange giri. The second act is in a house in Pall Mall, and the third at the residence ...