... ROUND THE T H E A T R E S. KULTUR AT HOME.-- Here, you must know, Mr. Rudolf Besier and Mrs. Sybil Spottiswoode show us German officers as they are. At any rate, I suppose we must take it so. The only German household I ever entered contained no officer, and it happened some twenty years ago, before culture had developd to its present intensity. Conse quently, I am in no position to say ...

... ROUND the t h e a t r e s. QUEEN AT SEVENTEEN.-- It was at the Prince's Theatre last Saturday evening. You may perhaps have a rough idea of the kind of thing that happens at the Prince's Theatre. It is a sort of annexe of the Lyceum: not on this occasion under the Melville management, but under a management which takes the Melville's as its model. Polite words are spoken in the papers about ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE 13th CHAIR, AT THE DUKE OF YORK'S THEATRE. WHEN Mr. Bayard Veiller wrote Within the Law, he wrote an at tractive but unconvincing play. At least, it was not a play calculated to induce any great number of people to take up the parti cular form of swindling it demonstrated while so many easier ones remained extant. Now that he has written a spiritualistic play. The ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE BING GIRLS ARE THERE, AT THE ALHAMBRA. ALTHOUGH you must not expect to find The Bing Girls as good as The Boys recently were at the Alhambra Theatre, you will witness a lively and bustling entertainment enough, even if it must be admitted that at times the racket and clatter seem to be kept at fever heat for fear a pause should reveal a weakness. For instance, no ...

... . COOK, BY JEROME K. JEROME, AT THE KING, SWAY THEATRE. IT is supposed to be the dream of every woman to marry a man who has never previ ously loved, but if that man has reached the ago of forty be sure it is dangerous to become his wife. Such an unnatural creature is certain to quickly return to the de tached, sexless state which is his natural con dition, and to forget that he is married. ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. VERONIQUE, AT THE ADELPHI THEATRE. THE Germans must be a stupid nation. They cry out, Gott strafe England! and yet they let Mr. George Edwardes escape their clutches and get back home, not realising that to have kept him in durance vile would have been a serious punishment to this country. As it is, here he is again, brighten ing us up with his musical comedies, and by ...

... THE LIBRARY. THE SOUTH DOWNS. THE London Brighton Railway Company is to be congratulated on the excellent handbook for the South Down country which they have just issued. This hand book. which is far in advance of the ordinary type of literature of this kind, is written by one who veils his identity under the pseudonym of The Tramp. The author is manifestly in love with the glorious country ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. DADDY LONG-LEGS, AT THE DUKE OF YORK'S THEATRE. ON the stage, American humour has always been more popular with the English public than American drama, which lacks subtlety and imagination, or American sentiment, which is sentimentality. You feel that the humour of Americans is their own, whereas their seriousness, except in business affairs, is a copy of that of older ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE CARL ROSA OPERA COMPANY. SNATCHING a night off from comedies and banal revues my artist col league and I found ourselves listening to exalted opera (the most expensive noise in the world), the other day at the Garrick Theatre, shortly before the Carl Rosa Company folded their tents and departed carolling to the Shaftesbury, their present aviary. I cannot write of ...

... 'HIE NEW VERSION OF 5064 GERRARD, THE REVUE AT THE ALHAMBRA. I SEEM to remember that the title (if this enter tainment was chosen from the various suggestions sent in by the public to the Alhambra at the suggestion of the manage ment of that theatre. If this is so, then either our pub lic is barren of imagination, or the wrong title w a s selected for any name more easy to overrooic or ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THOSE WHO SIT IN JUDGMENT, AT THE ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. AND so those who sit in judgment on playwrights and actors have turned their thumbs and their noses up at this new play by Michael Orme (Mrs. J. T. Grein), for that lady's drama folds its tents at the end of this week and steals away to make room for a revival of an old St. James's success, His House in Order The ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. FOLLOW THE CROWD, AT THE EMPIRE THEATRE. THE Empire set itself a very hard standard to live up to when it staged the revue, Watch Your Step, in the month of May, 1915, and, ap parently realising this, the management, when the time came at last to make a change, did the best thing possible by following up their success with another revue by the same com poser, Irving ...