... CROTCHETS AND QUAVERS. SEQUELS OF OPERAS. BALFE'S three-act opera, The Bohemian Girl has been so long and deservedly popular, that there must be many persons who are likely to be interested in the announcement of an additional act. Their indulgence is requested for THE BOHEMIAN GIRL.-- (Act IV). (Two years later than Act III.) SCENE 1st. (A Gipsy encampment near the Castle of Arnheim. ...

... THE COCKEYED PARTY It. It. Wyndham Ltkw (or. \ii>li(niaiT in llloomshiirv} PROLOGUE EARLY afternoon on a June day of 1950. Outside the London School of Economics. Siesta is over. Clusters of attractive gipsies lounge on the School steps, casting provo cative or insolent glances at the crowd. Others mingle with the populace, passing to and fro with rhythmically-swaying hips. Others are flocking ...

... PETER DICKINSON, bearing in mind the fondness for moderniz ing Shakespeare, here presents Falstaff in a motoring mishap OfCENE: the courtyard oj a wayside inn. O Enter Shallow and Silence. Shallow: Come on, come on, come on; give me your hand, Sir, give me your hand. And how goes the little sports car you bought at Stamford Fair? A quick one, I'll warrant? Silence: Alas, Cousin, a dear bargain ...

... . By Sir Chables L. Youno, Bart. Characters Janie, Willie. Scene The Breakfast Boom. Time End of October. Janie enters with letters in her hand. JANIE. How glad I am that he is home again! And now I have forgotten all the pain, The grief I felt when he was far away, Because he did not write home every day, And tell me how he spent each hour, each minute. This wifely anger-- oh! there's nothing ...

... . IF The Doctor at the Globe is to repeat the popular triumph scored by La Ductoresse at the Gymnase, it will have to live down the unfortunate impression created by an unlucky start A good many things went wrong on the first night of Mr. Burnand's play, as they generally do in the case of new pieces which have had to be postponed. The mere fact, indeed, that a manager has thought it ...

... AN INGENUE. Kate, handsome aged twenty-eight; Mart, pretty aged eighteen. Scene Kate's sitting -room. Kate and Mary seated in low chairs by the fire in peignoirs. Time 1.30 a.m. Mary gazing dreamily at the fire). Yes, it was a charming dance, didn't you think so Kate smiling at the other indulgently). I found it rather tiring, but I 'm glad you liked it. Everything was couleur de rose to you, ...

... . Train at Main Line departure platform. Heads out of every window small croivd to see the heads go off. Engine, knowing it has to leave in ten minutes, is taking a good square meal nf finals. Young Lady on platform). Well, good-bye, 'Arryut. They kiss.) Remember me to all, won't you Harriet (in carriage). I won't forget. Waggishly Give my best love to your friend, Mr. Thing-me-bob, when you ...

... OFF EYDE. SCENE: The deck of the yacht Semiramis. HE (lolling on deck chair). I can't think what you see in that fellow Bourget; I never could read him. Siie without looking up). You should buy a translation. He. Thanks Intrigue at three francs fifty and a death in a convent. I learnt it all with my catechism. She. And I didn't but I 'm making up for lost time. IIe [rolling cigarette). In my ...

... Miss CANDOUR: My dear, you're a fool. Now, don't be offended, because I mean it for your own good. But, really, you're a very silly woman. Mrs. Jackson But, Olivia, how can ...

... THE frequently recurring instances, when the production of new pieces at theatres is marked by unseemly disturbance, made by certain portions of the playgoing public, threaten to grow ...

... The Bystander's Spook Bureau RESUSCITATION OF THE DELPHIC ORACLE DARING NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE BY special arrangement with Julia, we hope shortly to open this transcendental agency for communication with the astral plane. Conversations on the slot system at a shilling per five minutes (bent coins not accepted). Wireless autographs obtained from departed celebrities. Spirit photographs in ...

... CNRRT ON r J c A BYSTANDER WEEKLY REVUE i r ACT III. Scene I. A MASQUERADE DE LUXE Curtain rises and discovers a multitude of smart women disguised as celebrated theatrical j/aw.] Chorus Oh, doesn't it make you feel merry and bright To know that the Suburbs are pleased at the sight Of Society, iety, fol the rol liety. Doing its bit, without shunning the light Oh, it's Art, Art, Art, with a ...