... as the reproducers wanted to make out. Compare the Manager from London, with all its suggestion of the tawdriness of the theatre of those far-off days, with the suggestion of the refinement beneath the Bohemianism of the well-known scene of Master Pendennis ...

... pTIOOS CRITIC. 41rHiS OAERICK THEATRE. THE tell me that the theatres generally, and notably the comic ones, are not doing surprisingly well, and perhaps until our war news becomes more cheerful it would seem a little heartless were we particular]y active ...

... ^ttr^CAPTIOUS CRITIC. irg aND THE BEANSTALK AT DRURY JACK A laNe theatre DRURY LANE is justifying its traditions-- drawing full houses in these not very flourishing times for theatres, and making its audiences laugh, not excepting the strong con tingents ...

... %\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 ...

... Visitors to the Haymarket, whicn, from its arrangements in front, is one of the brightest and most com fortable of our London theatres, should be in time for The Bmjle Call, by L. N. Parker and A. Addi son Bright. The plot is not particularly new, but the ...

... great success. There is, of cours), the advantage of concentration that one knows with out much inquiry how to get to one's theatre but it is possible to foresee a drawback in the future from the con gestion of the carriage traffic when one is thinking about ...

... ^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 ...

... novel into a drama; and few writers can be trusted to approach with the necessary want of tenderness for great success at the theatre their works which have proved suc cessful outside of it. In Rupert of Henlzau, at the St. James's, we see this very natural ...

... tion. But this was not to be. The house, draped in its night clothes, except as regards tho stalls, was as dull as an empty theatre can be. The performers were literally letter perfect, tho scenery went as smoothly as the per formance, and the performance ...

... 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 ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. MAGDA, AT THE ROYALTY THEATRE. MRS. PATRICK CAMPBELL is an actress-manager, and Magda is a play which a lady free to choose her own part can scarcely be blamed for selecting. All the glory goes to the heroine, and it is rather easily ...

... Martyn assures us in his criticism of the stage that Dublin audiences have awakened to the insipidity of the modern English theatre. When the big London successes are brought over, the audience comes away wondering how the Londoners could have made it (sic) ...