... LA DANSE DE L'APACHE. (As first given at the Moulin Rouge, Paris, iqo8.) I. TURN up the lights and play the dancers in: How will they dance ?-- -011 tiptoe, poised and trim, Or swathed in gauze and subtle chastity She smiled across the box and asked of him. II. Man, woman here, wayward and plea sure-wan, Yielding an easy life to custom's claws Shrouding by downcast lid or phrase conceit Their ...

... . BY MRS. STEEL. Scene India. Her sitting-room ivith the late afternoon sun sending bars of light and shadow across the floor. A native servant awaiting orders at the open French window, which gives on a verandah set ivith sweet-scented English flowers. She. The drawing-room, did you say Show him in here. \_She rises from the writing-table, goes over to the fireplace, sweeps up the wood ashes, ...

... . T i -\t iv -Early Spring Scene I. The Man's chambers in Dawn Street Piccadilly. On a sofa in front of the f re The Man. idly turning over a heap of unopened letters. .It his elbow a girl, holding a tray. The Man (wearily). Well, what u it, Sallie Saei. IK. Your egg-flip, Sir. The Man. Was it five or ten minutes ago you brought me the beef-tea Sa i.i.ik (resolutely). The doctor said you were ...

... SEVENTH SCENE THE EVENING TARTY Mr. Turlington, Lady Winwood At Home. Wednesday, December i$th.--Tcn o'' clock. DEAREST Natalie,-- As the brute insists, the brute must have the invitation which I enc ...

... . A HEARTY welcome was assured for the enterprise of the young manager who reopened his father's popular little theatre on Monday night. The London playgoing public has a long and loyal memory, and was sure to have a kindly greeting in in store for a son of an old favourite like John Sleeper Clarke, especially if that son's face and method suggest his parentage so unmistakably as did Mr. ...

... ftljc Drama. SATURDAY last was rather a busy night with the critics, who were engaged in a triad of events, the most important of which was the opening, under the management of Mr. J. H. Byron, of Messrs. Spiers and Pond's elegant new theatre, The Criterion, with a new comedy, An American Lady, by the manager, who also sustained one of the lead ing characters, and a new musical extravaganza, ...

... I) RUBY LANE. A NOTE on the playbill of the new melodrama produced at Drury Lane last Monday runs to the effect that in consequence of the number of characters in the play, and for the convenience of the public, the names of the characters are placed in the act in which they make their first appearance. The arrangement is a thoughtful one, for the dramatis personal of A Sailor and His Lass ...

... . WHAT success may be achieved by Mr. Newton's new bur lesque, Giddy Godiva; or, the Lass who was sent to Coventry, remains to be seen. What is already seen is that the perform ance of the piece on its production at Astley's last Saturday gave it little chance of commanding interest or creating amuse ment. Nonsense of this kind, which is largely made up of the parody of cleverly-arranged ...

... LOYES ME, LOVES ME' NOT. Scene. Dick Falkirk's studio, somewhat scantily furnished and very workmanlike a half-finished picture of Plirync before her Judges. Dick, an earnest- looking fcllou-, between Iwcnly-fivc and thirty, working at picture, and occasionally glancing at his watch the door opens, and a girl enters. She is very fragile-looking and vcryprclly rathe shabbily dressed. DICK. ...

... OPERA CO.MIQUE. The Opera Contique is one of the theatres supposed to be unlucky and it was typical of its luck that just before its doors re-opened the other night an explosion of gas in the Strand doorway threatened to prevent the entrance of anv playgoers who might be a-xious to witness the promised entertainment. Fortunately, however, the result of the explosion proved leas serious than ...

... IiAYMARKET THEATRE. UNDER the patronage of the Prince of Wales and Princess Mary of Teck, the matiniée arranged by Major -General Playfair at the Haymarket in aid of the Siddons Home scheme, came off on Monday, with great success. To the nature and merits of this proposed institution we have already more than once drawn attention; and there can be no doubt that if once it were established upon ...

... SHYLOCK v. ANTONIO; OR, HOW THE TRIAL WOULD HAVE RESULTED AT WESTMINSTER HALL. Tin; badness of the law as laid down in the trial Scene of the Merchant of Venice, militating so strongly as it does against the late Lord Campbell's theory that Shakspeare was a lawyer, induces a legal admirer, in these days of improved adaptations of the immortal Bard, to venture to suggest the following ...