... the title of a new and emotional sporting drama in four acts, written by Mr. Sutton Vane and brought out at the Pavilion Theatre on Monday last To those who are familiar with the class of plays to which The Betting Book belongs the title will readily ...

... CRITIC. MERRIE ENGLAND. EIGHT-FIFTEEN is not late enough for the vulgar people who have yet to learn what good manners at the theatre may mean. When the curtain rose on Monday evening for the first act of Merrie England more than one half of the stalls, which ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. TERRY'S THEATRE. DICKENS is in the ascendant at Terry's Theatre, for while Mrs. Beringer opens the bill with an admitted adaptation, Mr. Basil Hood, who comes after her, parallels the great novelist unconsciously. Personally, I am ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. 'FATJST AT THE LYCEUM THEATRE. THE gloom is good gloom at the Lyceum, and when it is broken by lightning, the lightning is good lightning. Seldom too, have we heard better thunder; it is in its own line of roar pre-eminent. Compared ...

... solitaire. Ibsen's first play, Catilina, written in secret, was offered without success to the Director of the Christiania Theatre, and then, to every publisher in the Capital. It was ultimately published, under the pseudonym Brunhiolf Biarme, at the expense ...

... wonder, and the author is strangely self-deluded in fancy ing that he startled all but the strongest-headed of the London theatre critics clean out of the practice of their profession whatever that may mean. As a matter of fact, the performance of the ...

... the Hofburg (Court) Theatre, Vienna, one of whose best performances is as Falstaff. Herr Baumeister has played no less than 6,000 times at the Hofburg and. since 1857 has been court actor, that is, a full member of the Court Theatre with a good pension ...

... Mr. Stephen Phillips' fine poetic play, Paolo and Fran cesco, had its hundredth consecutive performance at the St. James's Theatre, on the 5th inst., the occasion being marked by the presentation to every member of the audience of a handsomely bound and ...

... remembering Mrs Kean's last appearance in the part, and Miss Ellen Terry's debut therein was it not? at the old Prince of Wales's Theatre what has left the strongest impression in each case? The mercy speech of Mrs. Kean remains on the mind after all these years ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE CORONET THEATRE. ONE is always sure of as good a thing at the Coronet as Mr. Saunders can-- according to his judgment-- give, and he does not make many mistakes. The theatre at Notting Hill Gate has, from the first, in fact, done ...

... PLAYS, MUSIC, AND OTHER ENTERTAINMENTS Week by Week. The theatres are quite out of it in their recognition of the coronation, for by a curious irony the praise of the King has been left to the more democratic institution-- the music hall. We have big ...

... CRITERION THEATRE. The St. Vincent Disaster Fund, it is to be feared, will not be very greatly assisted by the proceeds of the matinee given at the Criterion Theatre on the 20th inst., through the initiative of Miss Mathilde Verne, for there were many ...