... feel in the position of an old playgoer. It was my privilege to be present at the first night of that play at the Avenue Theatre fourteen years ago and to have as my guest Mr. Goldwin Smith, who thoroughly appreciated Mr. Shaw's eccentricities, it is ...

... the whole mystery. JDv the way, the first night of Mr. Tree's play at His Majesty's Theatre was the most interest ing literary gathering that 1 have seen in a theatre for many years. Its most attractive element was the devotion of a box to the family ...

... be merely a piece of decoration, leaving us cold so far as our human enthusiasms are concerned. The plan for a Shakspere theatre seems a more sensible one. A nother writer with whom the thoughts of a monument should quicken one's pulse is that to Rousseau ...

... is destined for immor tality. It was my good fortune to be present at the first performance of the revival at the Savoy Theatre the other evening. How every line told. The genius of Sir Arthur Sullivan is, of course, paramount. Melody after melody came ...

... the memorial theatre as the best method of commemorating Shakspere. London wants a subsidised a national theatre, and Mr. Robert Donald of The Daily Chronicle, who was, I believe, the real promoter of the great meeting at the Lyceum Theatre last week, may ...

... slightest doubt but that the old audience, which largely consisted of a church and chapel going public as contrasted with a theatre-going public, would all come back to him in shoals. Mr. Barrie should be delighted to know the anxiety with which the judge ...

... not want it discovered. V\Je have heard much of late of a state-aided theatre. In 1880 Mr. Ruskin wrote: The one thing I have to say mainly is that the idea of making money by a theatre, and making it educational at the same time, is utterly to be got out ...

... because so many young people are not allowed to go to the theatre at all. Even in his preface Sir William manages to become controversial, for he makes merry over the idea of a national theatre. The book, however, is a charming one. The illus trations ...

... has secured some very interesting support for what is called a Coleridge matinee at the Hay- market Theatre. Mr. Frederick Harrison of that theatre has treated these literary enthusiasts with great generosity and has engaged, on his own account, the ...

... a bad cold and an in flammation of the face, which prevented his meeting Charles Kemble at a given time at Covent Garden Theatre, which meeting, had it taken place, would probably have changed the course of his life. \\J riting of Dickens reminds me that ...

... but Strife is a superlatively good play. It was my fortunate lot to be present at its reproduction at the Duke of York's Theatre the other afternoon, and I am not surprised to find that it has been transferred to the evening bill at the Haymarket. Here ...

... Sims that royalty fees should be paid upon Shakspere's plays whenever performed for the benefit of a National Shakspere Theatre. ]\/r r. Whibley desires to extend the term of privilege for the author under a new Copyright Act for the author's life and ...