... wife to boot. Another character who figures most amusingly in more than one of these stories is Mrs. Gudrun of the Sceptre Theatre, a lady whose acquaintance is worth making. F. H. Two Art Books 'The war has caused but little diminution in the fine succes- ...

... really lives for us in its pages, with her irascible Irish mother, her shiftless stepfather, her multitude of friends of the theatre. I find that her marriage first with Thomas Coutts, the banker, and afterwards with the young Duke of St. Albans, more readable ...

... with much inside knowledge, yet we hope wildly exaggerated. The Honey- Pot is intended to typify the chorus of a popu lar theatre where musical comedy obtains, and the flies are the golden youths who flutter round the said chorus. T? ranees Cornford has ...

... idiosyncrasies. Little, however, has been written about a perfectly charming play that he once wrote for the St. James's Theatre, Guy Doinville, in which Miss Marion Terry appeared and charmed us all. The play was a failure. It was too good for the public ...

... Sidney Lee. derived very considerable pleasure from Mr. Louis N. Parker's play, Disraeli now being presented at the Royalty Theatre, Mr. Dennis Eadie impersonating Disraeli. It is a curious experience seeing upon the stage a man long deceased whom you have ...

... the Babylon Theatre, and she marries a handsome but notorious young theatre manager and owner, Oliver Gray, and remains with him for a month, as previously agreed, in consideration of having been given the desired position in his theatre. After many ...

... volume. This is A Tribute to the Genius of William Shakf.spearf. being the i f( Programme of a Performance at Drury Lane Theatre on May 2, 1916, the Tercentenary of his Death Humbly Offered by the Players and their Fellow-workers in the Kindred Aits of ...

... in evidence in the stalls of theatres at matinees. The day performances at theatres are growing, and will continue to grow, but there is a distinct set back in the matinee hat nuisance. The other day I was at a theatre when a well-known woman with German ...

... surprise when I reached the theatre door to find the following notice being distributed To the patrons of the Abbey Theatre. The players regret having to disappoint their public this week, as they will not appear at the theatre under the present manager ...

... Music-lovers are once more under a deep debt of gratitude to Sir Thomas Beecham. He opened his new season at the Aldwych Theatre with such well-tried favourites as Tristan, Otello, Madame Butterfly, and Bohême. Then on Thursday last he gave a delightful ...

... Gill Son; Ltd., 1906. (4) When the Dawn is Come a Tragedy in Three Acts, by Thomas MacDonagh. Being Vol. X of The Abbey Theatre Series. Dublin Maunsel Co., Ltd., 1908. (In brown paper cover with illustration on wrapper.) (5) Songs of Myself, by Thomas ...

... You will never teach some parents, however, any more than you will teach some women voluntarily to remove their hats in theatres. It is a matter for the police, I suppose. C. K. S. A list of books received by The Sphere will be found on the second i>citie ...