... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC |gf THE ODD SPOT, AT THE VAUDEVILLE. IT is rather an odd spot in which to find a second-rate revue, for the Vaudeville has of late years become the recognised home for first- class ones only. But ships are but boards, sailors but men. so why should not a theatre also spring a leak now and again, and let in a green wave of mediocrity? Re member that the laws of chance ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC H YOICKS AT THE KINGSWAY THEATRE. MR. DONALD CALTHROP keeps pegging away at the task of getting you inside the comfort able little Kingsway Theatre. With Shakespeare and with modern farce he has had little luck, but he very nearly did the trick with Kate, where an impossible book murdered a good and well-sung score. I he cast, however, was probably too expensive to be ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC 11 MIDSUMMER MADNESS, AT THE HAMMERSMITH LYRIC. HOWEVER, much the productions at the Hammersmith Lyric have been over praised (and nothing wins like success, nor does anything else obtain such exaggerated adula tion), it must be admitted that it. is the home of high emprise. Nowhere else in London would capital have been sunk on Abra ham Lincoln, The Beggar's Opera, ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC |fjf THE FARMER'S WIFE, AT THE COURT THEATRE. THE little Court Theatre stands away in the West where the sun goes down, and theories have been advanced that this isolation from the ring of West End playhouses is the cause of its frequent change of programme. But the only theories that keep their ground in this world are those which facts cannot get at, such as that of ...

... fl f]\ y F. J.Sellieks. THE trouble between Middlesex and York shire is not yet at an end, and the issue may not be determined for some days yet. That is satisfactory as far as it goes, since there is still a possibility of a peaceful settlement, which is what all far-seeing lovers of cricket really desire. It is not right that a great game should suffer serious disturbance because here and ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC 11 THE CREAKING CHAIR, AT THE COMEDY. THE authors of this play are most unscrupulous at putting one oft' the scent. If they were the hares in a paper-chase they would never give the hounds a hound's chance. If Ananias and Sapphira were killed for saying nothing, what should be due to Allene Tupper Wilkes and Roland Pertwee for a whole evening of shameless men dacity? We ...

... . Charles Norman de Courcy-Parry is an ad venturer. A Cumbrian of the John Peel type, a keen huntsman, he has travelled after wild pig in Fijian forests. He has tried to trade pearls in an Arab drinking shop in New Cale donia, and finished the experiment with flashing knives and the local calaboose. From this he escaped, and crossed the island to a cargo tramp, where he had to feed inadequate ...