... ELOCUTION AND STA.Q, TRAINING. By MAXwELL RYDnx. Londoni. Thomas Burleigh, Cecil-court, Charing-cross-road. Price, 5s. net. It seems strange that in the dawn of the twentieth century the most earnest students and the staunchest lovers of the English stage are still pleading for a study of elocution; it is even stranger when the critic has to admit that never was there greater necessity for ...

... A CHAT WITH PERCIVAL HYATT. (BY OUR SPECIAL COMMISSIONER.) The variety agent, or, better still, the agent for varieties in the entertainment world, is bound to be a man of parts, and Mr J. F. Percival Hyatt is certainly a man of varied qualities and varied connections. The world of acrobats and mountebanks and the circus, as Messrs Hugues, Le Roux, and Jules Garmier explained so cleverly in ...

... (FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) At Leicester Fair the Collins's combine, with their many attractions, held the premier position. Collins's menagerie, gondolas, galloping horses, and Cinemato- graph show were admired. Mr James Norman with Savage South Africa ' illustrated and the flying ostriches fully maintained his reputation. The switch- back and gondola concerns of Twigdon did good busi- ...

... Sir William P. Treloar, the president of the Annual Pilgrimage of the Whitefriars Club, presented a bronze bust of Shakespeare to the trustees of the Shakespeare Memorial at Stratford-on-Avon on Saturday afternoon, on behalf of the family of the artist of the bust, the late William Page, president of the National Academy at New York. The presentation was made through the Whitefriars Club at ...

... I Mr Beerbohm Tree on Tuesday afternoon distributed the scholarships, medals, prizes, and certificates won by' the students at Charing-cross Hospital Medical School during the last two sessions. Mrs Beerbohm Tree accompanied her husband. Dr. MONTAGUE MURRAY, the Dean, having made his report, Mr TRer, who was received with cheers, said: -Mr Dean, my Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen,-We have it on ...

... SLEEPING BEAEUTY AND iliE BEAST. Drury-lane's pantomime this year will be a composite production and a combination of one of the oldest fairy tales extant with one of somewhat modern growth. For although we are indebted to Madame Perrault for The Sleeping Beauty - La Belle au Bois Dormant -it is undoubtedly based upon the old Norse tale of Brynhild and Sigurd. Briefly, the story is ...

... ?? SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1900. | SHAKESPEARE AND TEMPERANCE. The character of Falstaff is well calculated to cause compunction in playgoers who, like a certain essayist politician, are in trouble about their souls. ' A good deal of sympathy and considera- tion is due to these analysts of their enjoyment. WVhat we laugh at, and whom we laugh with, are extremely important questions. They ...

... On Friday, the 2J inst., Mr C. F. Gill, QO0., applied for a new licence for music and dancing for the Hackney Empire, Oswald-street, Hackney. He said it was a new house built upon the plan of the various other houses of this character which had been erected in various parts of London. Mr Stoll, the proprietor, had spent a con- aiderable sum of money in the purchase of property, and in order to ...

... L The annual session forbhearing applications for Ilicences i to Liverpool theatre:, music-hails, &c., was held on Tuesday at the Police-courts, Dale-street, Liverpool, at Sir Thomas Hughes, chairman of the Licensing Bench, rec' presiding. 1 Air Bremner applied, on behalf of Mir Harold B. Ada Nelson, for the renewal of the theatrical licence at the J. Prince of Wales Theatre, Clayton-square. ...

... ON THE ROAD, NOV. D. A CHINESE HONREtMOOn.-Opera House, Southport. A FAST LIFE.-P. 0. W. Theatre, Salford. ALEXANDER, GEORGE.-Theatre Royal, Cardiff. A LIFE OF PLEASuRE.-Grand 'theatre, Nottingham. A LIFR'S RRVENGE.-T. R., Bolton. A LONDON ARAB-Queen's Theatre, Dublin. A QUEEN'S VENGEANCE.-T. R, ITonypandy. A ROYAL FAMILY.-lheatre Royal, Dublin. A ROYAL DIVORCE-Grand Tneatre, Doncaster. A ...

... ACTOIlls' [1,EN[:WlENT FUND. W ii hI'I,I oow~11- . Ilgh~t Ioiithe' Whiteliall Rloomos eol the Htotel Me'tropoie. Mr t il lls-: ALUXAiN 511F, ,IhO lhad chis1 I thlt st. 'Im'll'. atrl for the eleniirg, soihiln thet corniol,- vimis' r.I1 oveir 2(HI. Thi Followli gi Ilti'it III,1 itcepe'tl 1lil~tatlilo A nkl 01, , Mei Iri Castrell, WVI. Mor'l, il. 11. Aitle, Hor,!ill'itl Oil, cI !ni~ Morgan, ...

... (FROM A SPrCIAL CORRESPONDENT.) The old-fashioned town of Wakefield kept its fair on the 10th and 12th of this month. The fair ground is near the cathedral, and the late bishop of the diocese, the good Dr. Walsham How, was a great lover of shows and showmen. A verv strong contingent of the concerns from Rotherham statutes fair moved on to the cathedral city. The cinematograph shows were Messrs ...