... . By Vedette. IF I had been Mr. Arthur Hardy I should have been inclined to postpone my production of the new Vice Versâ until the Christmas holidays, when it would have been sure of filling Mr. Chudleigh's cosy theatre with school boys eager for the fantastic fray of Mr. Anstey's school room farce. But after all this should be a timely triumph merely postponed, since the merry piece of semi ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. HIS OWN MEPHISTOPHELES. MR. CECIL RALEIGH, always worthy of attention as the Shake speare of Drury Lane, resolved to do something all his own, untrammelled by the necessities of spec tacle and the other limi tations for success at the National Theatre. This effort of independence was produced the other day at the Coronet, which is almost to be included ii the theatres ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC, DON CESAR DE BAZAN, AT THE LYRIC THEATRE. IF our girls ever do get a vote, there will be no chance for a candidate against Mr. Lewis Waller. It was in a very frenzy of adoration that the female contingent welcomed his reappearance as Don César de Bazan. It is to be hoped that this enthusiasm was rather for the acting than for the hero, who is anything but an example for ...

... j OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. J COUNT HANNIBAL. AT THE NEW THEATRE. Count Hannibal, with which Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Asche have come back to us, has been drawing big houses to the New Theatre. The play, which I believe has done very well also overseas, was heard of before Mr. Asche and his wife went on their travels, but was not acted in London. I see that the name of Stanley Weyman, the author of the ...

... BOUND THE THEATRES. By Vedette. THE round of the theatres that one makes just now is not, and cannot be, a very extended one, but it is at any rata a good deal longer than any that is generally prac ticable at this time of the year. A far larger proportion of the West End houses than usual is avoiding, or at any rate postponing, the summer clóture, and the country cousin or the American ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. A WOMAN'S WAY, AT THE COMEDY THEATRE. PRODUCTIONS and withdrawals follow one another so rapidly that it is a matter of difficulty to catch them on their way. I gathered from the notices of Mr. Buchanan's play at the Comedy that it was safe for a run. When I saw it myself a little later I thought the piece and the performance very nearly quite good enough to attract fair ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. A SINGLE MAN, AT THE PLAYHOUSE. I HOPE--and think--that Mr. Maude has got another success. A Single Man, by Mr. H. H. Davies--whom we are beginning to know very well--is not at all a bad little play. Its methods are not subtle, its details are not from far afield, and there is nothing of the problem piece about it. On the contrary, we have to be content--and are very ...

... Japan-British Exhibition Awards. In July last an advertisement in this paper announced that J eyes sanitary Compounds, Ltd., were the only recipients of the Grand Prix for disinfectants at this exhibition. The Jeyes Company now learns that within the last few days a similar distinction has been conferred on another firm, and the proprietors ask us to correct what has now become an erroneous ...

... BOUND THE THEATBES. By Vedette. His Lordship's Cure, the new comedy presented for a charity the other day at the Apollo, proved to be one of those amateurishly able dramatic efforts which are just good enough to make one wish they were better. As might have been anticipated from the names of its fair authoresses, Dolf Wyllard and Elliott Page, both of whom have done clever work of other ...

... OUB CAPTIOUS CRITIC PRISCILLA RUNS AWAY, AT THE HAYMARKET THEATRE. PRISCILLA'S FORTNIGHT is a very pretty story, and on reading it from the bookstall one felt sure that it would find its way to the stage. We have it now at the Haymarket-- as adapted by the authoress herself-- and its success, despite the truism that most authors are not to be trusted with the dramatisation of their own ...

... BATE THEATRES. Connais Toi is one of those essentially French plays which, if it be necessary to import them, should be translated and not adapted for the English stage. M. Hervieu's arguments and sentiments and humours when placed by Mr. Kenneth Barnes in the mouths of British officers, their wives, and their wives' lovers, lose any conviction that they may originally have conveyed. They ...

... . By G. Dorset. Hettiemann.) In one of his philosophical works Balzac treats of the successful husband, and no reader can have missed the reflection that the metier is an arduous one, but it becomes child's-play beside the patience, heroism, and martyrdom demanded of this successful wife. Esther Carey was left at the age of fifteen to provide for a family of six. New York must be a ...