... couple of other thorough fares. It seemed to me that the carol-singers hoped to reap a harvest from people homeward bound from theatres and dinner parties and clubs rather than from the households they serenaded. This is no doubt progressive, but it is not ...

... like a description of an ordinary musical comedy, and perhaps I ought to add that a few more recruits from the Edwardesian theatre would have been useful, for at times it lacked the quality suggested by that shibboleth word entrain. The illus trious trio ...

... llNTOW^I Ax I) OlT^ The Aftermath. LIFE at the moment is a matter chiefly of bills, and London, were it not for the innumerable theatres, all of which are going strong, would be a somewhat dull and distinctly de pressing city. Royalty is conspicuous chiefly ...

... three arts are not at all exclusive. Sculpture, a sub-heading, is tucked away under the coloured wing of Paint ing while the Theatre affords many members besides actors Sir Arthur Pinero, who looks like one, is there; and Mr. Alfred Sutro never looks uneasy ...

... had been booked at the last minute at three times their usual value. But that's a usual occurrence on Christmas Eve all the theatres and music-halls are packed. At the Opera the bookings amounted to over 20,000 francs. a P veryone was very gay indeed, I ...

... Robert Hichens's novel, Bella Donna, has been produced with so much success by Sir George Alexander at the St. James's Theatre Pym ...

... Criterion Theatre. The success of Man and Super man possesses that characteristic of obsti nacy which is so agreeable in a play if you are the manager and so unpleasant in the home if you can't get away from it. Every performance sees the theatre packed ...

... Miss Gertie Millar and Mr. Robert Evett during the rehearsal of The Merry Widow, four days before it was produced at Daly's Theatre, rehearsed this kiss. Miss Millar, of course, regarded the kiss merely as a part of the acting, and critics were agreed that ...

... HOP 0' MY THUMB, AT DRURY LANE THEATRE. Miss Tunny It rough us the Baroness Chicot. Mr. Ernest Longford as Datas, Mr. Barry Lupino as Smilo, and Miss Rente Mayer as Hop. M iss Maudie Thornton as Mirabelle. I For other illustrations of this pantomime ...

... HUP 0' MY THUMB, BY GEORGE R. SIMS AND OTHERS, AT DRURY LANE THEATRE. Miss Violet Loraine as Hilario. Miss Rente Mayer as Hop, and Mr. Austin Meljord as the Woodcutter. Mr. Will Evans as Potterini. Mr. George Graces as the King oj Mnemonica. Mr. Frederick ...

... will be immediately attended to. On Monday last Miss Lillah McCarthy transferred her manage ment from the Little Theatre to the Kingsway Theatre, where she is joined in partnership by Mr. Granville Barker. Fanny's First Flay, with the entire cast, was moved ...

... 4. MRS. PATRICK CAMPBELL AS MRS. CHEPSTOW, The fair temptress in Bella Donna, at the St. James's Theatre. 5. THE GREAT GAY ROAD, AT COURT THEATRE. Miss Christie Laws as Nancy Sylvain, Mr. Owen A ares as Rodney Foster, a cold lover, Mr. Arthur Phillips ...