... wife of the Societaire of the Theatre-Franqais. Such performances will prove sensational, no doubt, but the true artist should have higher aims. The Princess's. The proposed continuous entertainment at the Princess's Theatre, alas for the poor house scene ...

... DRAMA OF THE WEEK. MR. CHARLES WYNDHAM, who brought his eight months' season at his new and elegant theatre in the Charing-cross road to a conclusion on the evening of Friday, July 20th, makes the gratifying announcement that each week's business has ...

... their absence. But now it is not like that. A run suspended or a per formance stopped from mid- July to September means a theatre closed, and the off season for the drama is at last a fact indeed. There ought to be enough play goers among those of our ...

... its brief period of success. He was, I well remember, a conspicuous figure at the performance of the Cenci, at the Grand Theatre, Islington, and even more in evidence at the musical performance of Hellas, an evening so dreary as to be calculated to kill ...

... carriage with a first-class ticket, I came back to town. Tho theatres, having taken the lato lioat wave too seriously, are mostly closod, which 110 doubt tlioy now regret. The greater variety theatres I am afraid of on Bank Holiday, the smaller ones are even ...

... called. He was taking his annual holiday-- all the while, we may be sure, wishing that he was back. The first to arrive at the theatre and the last to leave, this grand old manager of eighty-one is certainly not the least wonderful feature of his own show. ...

... formances only because one of the actors left the company. Now I saw Strafford performed some fifty years later at the Strand Theatre, and I am quite satis fied in my own mind that only enthusiasm for Brown ing's great work in poetry made the play tolerable ...

... our CAPTIOUS critic. nnnWN THEATRE, PECKHAM. TO parody the country gentleman in Handy Andy, they have spoilt Peckham with their-- improvements. It is is only by looking for them now that one can find those pretty little dwellings among trees which ...

... become familiar with it? Is Shakspere any the worse to us because he is recited in every schoolroom and in every provincial theatre? Mr. Lang, as a very anti-democratic person, would say yes. In any case, this desire to hear no more of FitzGerald's Omar ...

... Mr. Tree's credit be it said that he has cleverly and judiciously taken a middle course. Nowhere outside of Her Majesty's Theatre has Shakespeare luid more liberal and beauteous mounting, but nowhere has he been treated with greater reverence.. The popular ...

... in them consistently. It is, of course, quite true that all London will rush to a particular theatre to see a dramatic or histrionic sensation but the theatre which, like the Gaiety for example, can disregard counter attractions through good times and ...

... Justice, Rochester, and the rival ladies, and makes the king laugh. Charles asks her to stay after they have gone but the theatre calls her away, and she goes, parting tenderly. There are some happy moments in Miss Neilson's performance of the title part ...