... pTIOOS CRITIC. 41rHiS OAERICK THEATRE. THE tell me that the theatres generally, and notably the comic ones, are not doing surprisingly well, and perhaps until our war news becomes more cheerful it would seem a little heartless were we particular]y active ...

... ^ttr^CAPTIOUS CRITIC. irg aND THE BEANSTALK AT DRURY JACK A laNe theatre DRURY LANE is justifying its traditions-- drawing full houses in these not very flourishing times for theatres, and making its audiences laugh, not excepting the strong con tingents ...

... Visitors to the Haymarket, whicn, from its arrangements in front, is one of the brightest and most com fortable of our London theatres, should be in time for The Bmjle Call, by L. N. Parker and A. Addi son Bright. The plot is not particularly new, but the ...

... great success. There is, of cours), the advantage of concentration that one knows with out much inquiry how to get to one's theatre but it is possible to foresee a drawback in the future from the con gestion of the carriage traffic when one is thinking about ...

... novel into a drama; and few writers can be trusted to approach with the necessary want of tenderness for great success at the theatre their works which have proved suc cessful outside of it. In Rupert of Henlzau, at the St. James's, we see this very natural ...

... tion. But this was not to be. The house, draped in its night clothes, except as regards tho stalls, was as dull as an empty theatre can be. The performers were literally letter perfect, tho scenery went as smoothly as the per formance, and the performance ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. MAGDA, AT THE ROYALTY THEATRE. MRS. PATRICK CAMPBELL is an actress-manager, and Magda is a play which a lady free to choose her own part can scarcely be blamed for selecting. All the glory goes to the heroine, and it is rather easily ...

... unscrupu lous. He subdues his brother scoundrel, the valet Domin ique, with a pistol what a lot of pistols we are using in the theatre up to date but he cannot subdue the noble father. Mr. Edward O'Neill is the flippant and able cracksman valet. Mr. Staveley ...

... hope of making people laugh should be deplorably dismal? Is there not gloom enough already in our lives without going to the theatre to seek more of it under the pretence of amusement? Amusement, forsooth! From Rupert of Hentzau to Don Juan's Last Wager, ...

... on plays and play productions, have been saying concerning Mr. F. R. Benson's latest Shakespearian revival at the Lyceum Theatre that The Tempest, which was put in the programme on the 5th inst., was merely a poet's indulgence in a very beautiful dream ...

... must be well done to command favour on this side of the Channel. A Clown's Christmas, brought out at a matinée at the Lyric Theatre on the 11th inst., was exceedingly well done, and secured the enthusiastic approval of a large and deeply- interested audience ...

... neither the triple bill nor the method of its interpretation was worthy of a continuous clamour of approbation which kept the theatre quivering. I have myself never written of actors and actresses as criminals when they have failed altogether to please me ...