... ROUND T H E THEATRE S. A DEAR LITTLE LADY. --One young gentleman, Mr. John D'everell, with a reasonably effective silly ass manner, which might be really funny if it had something to work upon; one gloomy valet, Mr. Reginald Bach, who called up memories of Mr. Alfred Lester Mr. Fred Kerr looking on, and perform ing this rather negative feat with as much humour as he could; and that was about ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, AT THE COURT THEATRE. THERE is not a great deal to be said about the revival of this play at the Court Theatre, because in the main it is a plain, straightforward rendering of the work which does not call for any lengthy com ment. It is true that Mr. Maurice Mosco- vitch, the Jewish actor who appears as fhylock, strikes a new note by not attempt ...

... . The exigencies of fashion regulate the everyday conditions of dress under advanced civilisation. The place and the time of the year come before the weather and the thermometer With a temperature of India we costume ourselves as for Spitzbergen with a blizzard from Alaska we stand attired in a garb which might do duty in the tropics. If we ever grow wise enough to recognise that what we ...

... Qur QffWvs (Jnc on MR. PICKWICK, the Haymarket Theatre. THE present writer is hardly qualified to pass an opinion on Mr. Basil Dean's production of Mr. Pickwick at the Hay market, for the very good reason that as he wants every word of the original book included on the stage, the necessary omission of ninety-five percent, of Dickens's astounding effort projects him into a hopelessly biased ...

... f¥ The Stage or the dayIC By Harris Deans* I HAVE no love for figures, at least of the statistical kind, but a recent list of plays that had run a hundred or more nights drew my respectful attention, for none of these plays was of serious interest. Now any man can produce figures to prove any theory lie chooses to put forward (for, as has been said, there are lies, d-- d lies, and statistics), ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. ARMS AND THE MAN, AT THE DUKE OF YORK'S THEATRE. MR. BERNARD SHAW, in his preface to Arms and the Man, says: To me the tragedy and comedy of life lie in the consequences, sometimes terrible, sometimes ludicrous, of our persistent attempts to found our institutions on the ideals sug gested to our imaginations by our half-satisfied passions, instead of on a genuinely ...

... Our Gr*s rm c j on THE ROOF (The Vaudeville Theatre). IT is interesting to note how well Mr. Galsworthy understands human nature while being blind, in his plays, to life's superficial detail. The action of The Roof takes place in a Paris hotel, which seems to be staffed entirely by one old waiter. The effect of there being an adequate staff on the premises could have been conveyed without ...

... GAIETY THEATRE. THOUGH the withdrawal of that capital Christmas piece, The Gaiety Gulliver, is on some grounds to be regretted, there are not lacking elements of popularity in the entertainment given by Mr. Hollingshead in its place. The burlesque, Robbing Roy, for instance, which deals, in Mr. Burnand's happiest spirit, with a subject excellently fitted for good-humoured caricature, is the ...

... . ON Monday evening last the bright and tuneful operetta, A United Pair, was followed, at St. George's Hall, by a new musical sketch, in which Mr. Corney Grain illustrates some recent experiences' of Aix les Bains. Beginning with the in evitable commencement of a continental holiday, he goes through Paris, I visits a café chantant, and hears the cafe chorus, which varies, but never really ...

... . THE sliglitness of the interest taken by the English public in French plays and performances is well indicated by the poor attendance which has been vouchsafed during the week to the representations of Divorçons and La Cigale at the Gaiety. These are, both of them, extremely witty comedies of the farcical kind, and they have been admirably performed-- especially the latter piece, which has ...

... . WE recently gave a full account of the plot of the grand opera Sigurd, written by MM. Du Locle and Blau, and composed by M Ernest Reyer, since the death of Berlioz musical critic of Le Journal des Débate, Paris. We have now to chronicle the successful production, on Tuesday last, of the Italian adaptation written by Signor Mazzucato, one of the most distinguished of modern Italian literati. ...

... . Lucifer, an oratorio written in Flemish by M. Emanuel Hiel, composed by M. Pierre Léonard Leopold Benoit, and fitted with an English translation by Mrs. Butterfield, was on Wed nesday last produced at the Albert Hall by the Royal Choral Society, under the direction of Mr. Barnby. The composer holds high rank among his musical fellow countrymen, and has for many years persevered in endeavours ...