... %\xt theatres BY W. MOY TIIOMAS A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM WHILE. Mr. Sidney Lee, in the Nineteenth Century, is com plaining that the feast that Shakespeare's plays offer to the playgoer is regarded as tasteless and colourless unless it be fortified by ...

... ^Ite theatres BY W. MOY THOMAS MRS. JORDAN THE Mrs. Jordan, of stage history, was of a gay and playful nature, but she could hardly have been so unwisely freakish as the heroine of Miss Constance Smedley's play in which Mrs. Patrick Campbell made her ...

... music and graceful dancing, beautiful scenery and brilliant costumes could do to make the new play at the PRINCE OF WALES'S Theatre acceptable, has been done, and if the result has fallen short of Mr. Martin Harvey's expectations, it is fair to remember ...

... three-act farce, The Passport at Terry's Theatre, serves to exhibit the comic powers of Mr. Edward Terry and his excellent company to the best advan tage. The Passport, originally brought out at the same theatre about five years ago, is a very amusing ...

... Htu theatres BY W. MOY THOMAS THE SIGNORA D USE'S PERFORMANCES THE prolonged absence of the Signora Duse from the London stage has evidently not weakened the hold of the great Italian actress upon the affections of English playgoers. Her Magda in Sudermann's ...

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... the glare of the footlights have been rather evaded than overcome by the authors of Becky Sharp at the PRINCE OF WALES'S Theatre. That they have given no adequate representation of the story is at once ap parent, in the facts that Jos Sedley's amorous ...

... of crabbed age and youth, and the old lines certainly find confirmation in Mr. Stuart Ogilvie's new comedy at the Court Theatre. The slowly developed and necessarily abortive attachment of John Durnford, the leader of the advanced Radical party, to the ...

... Hke theatres BY W. MOY THOMAS THE UNDERCURRENT A COMELY, a clever, and, withal, a very amusing personage is the amiable Countess Zechyadi, who, in Mr. Carton's new comedy at the Criterion, devotes her time and talents to befriending needy acquaintances ...

... course, be numerous recitals and other smaller concerts. Madame Fanny Moody's Opera Company are coming to the Kennington Theatre next week, but although there has been issued a sort of manifesto in advance, a six-night experiment in the suburbs c m scarcely ...

... ^lu Theatres BY W. MOY THOMAS IRIS MR. PINERO, it may be remembered, altered the dénoûment of The Profligate on the sugges tion of Mr. Hare, and permitted his peccant hero to marry Leslie Brudenell in defiance of the quaint proverbial rhymes which, ...

... recent revival of The Strange Adventures of Miss Brown at the Court Theatre appears to have been only a stage in the pro gress of converting that house into what is known as a theatre of varieties. Anyway the disappearance of Miss Brown and her associates ...