... King aud the Dame, Prince Racket and the village maiden, take place amid surroundings of great splendour. I am not going to speak of the spectacle first, for, as some one who knew has told us, the play's the thing, and I fear we are inclined to forget ...

... beeste as a kind of small bison, whereas most African hunters and all naturalists know it to be a true antelope. Again he speaks of elands having been killed standing as much as seven feet in height, which seems to be a good deal taller than anything ...

... impossible to regard her as a sympathetic victim either of her unsym pathetic father or more unsympathetic lover. There is, to speak plainly, no one to sympathise with from beginning to end of the production, which must be regarded less as a dramatic work ...

... moved about by a crane. is in compatible with Jin de siicle dramatic illusion. The episode in the burial ground with the speaking monument of a de parted young lady is difficult enough to take seriously but the thundering footsteps of the marble Commander ...

... Rossi's pantomime was more eloquent than any words could have been, and Petite Marcelle was so pretty and so pathetic with her speaking eyes and action that we are sure every woman in the audience must have experienced a desire to hug her Another very fine ...

... course were all for Miss Kllen Terry. Of the beauties of her portraiture of the heroine it would he almost superfluous to speak. They were long ago recognised, and they were recognised once more on Tuesday evening, when the charming actress was called ...

... period so utterly bare as 1899-- 1900 of productions which one has been compelled to run after, whether one wished to or not. I speak with some thing of personal interest in the matter, because I would sooner write kindly than otherwise, and because, moreover ...

... whose wooing by Archie Mackenzie is prominent in the sub plot. I have already spoken generally of the scenery, and cannot speak tco highly of it --there has been nothing more substantial or more effective from a pictorial point of view. I do not care ...

... to prove it. In an unguarded moment, the highly rospectable Mr. James Risby, who has fnlfilled diplomatic duties in Vienna, speaks of the resemblance Mrs. Bane bears to a certain Felicia Hindmarsh, a governess in the Austrian capital, who drove her mistress ...

... in the proportion, I should say, of ten to one-- and even the ladies in the pit would, I doubt not, be offended were I to speak of them as anything but representative of the so called better classes. Of course, no woman who is a woman will except for ...

... example, scarcely any acting at all in the ballet entitled Sea-Side, the piece of the evening, at the Empire, and no plot to speak of-- and yet it is as popular a production as almost the best of its predecessors. I do not think that, on its dramatic merits ...

... of this trifle was splendidly sus tained by Mr. Charles Hawtrey, who for about lialf-au-hour, without any assistance worth speaking of, kept the house thoroughly interested and amused. That he was heartily applauded goes without saying. CHURCH AND STAGE ...