... . Mr: provydence' s drawing-room. Bridal rcccotion. Pro fusion of Jloicers. Refreshments and waiters by contract from Blanchieys. LORD CARYON. (Bending over Miss Hygh-Pace.) Don't you think marriages are a mistake in this kind of weather? It's positively tropical. Miss Hygh-Pace. Oh, I don't know Happiness is always in season, isn't it And certainly Lord Camelet looks in the seventh Heaven ...

... DRAMA. FRENCH PLAYS AT HER MAJESTY'S. Thought not precisely inadequate, the representation of Ruy Bias at Her Majesty's did not produce much effect upon the audience. It is inconceivable that in this large theatre, where the bulk of the audience is so far removed from the stage, any dramatic performance can gain that hold on the house which is possible in a smaller space, but in truth Ruy Bias ...

... . Afternoon Tea at Mes. Lightly's. LADY VIÈRE It's a most unfortunate case, of course. She really was a very charming little woman. MISS PASSÉE Oh, I don't know; there was always some thing I didn't care for about her. Lady VirteiiE. {Suavely.) I dare say, my dear; she was extremely pretty, you know. Miss Passer. {With a wry smile.) Of course that was a question of taste. I al ways thought her ...

... . Two Gentlemen of Verona, Mr. Daly's latest Shakespearean revival, is given by him in the same spirit as that which has actutated his previous efforts of classical reproduction. His methods are essentially light and modern; he introduces a musical number whenever he gets the least excuse for doing so; he goes in for very pretty scenery and very picturesque costumes; he provides a weak company ...

... K\)t Drama, THE theatres are being rapidly closed-- four more, viz., Coveilt Garden, Drury Lane, the St. James's and tho Royalty, having to of added to those previously in that position, and in another week or two tho houses then continuing open, may probably be counted on the lingers of one hand. Tho season, at both Italian operas, terminated oil Saturday.-- At Coveilt Garden, as on several ...

... . MR. BYRON has been called in to the Court Theatre, and, to carry out the medical simile, he has administered one of the most familiar articles in his pharmacopoeia. That is to say, he has given Mr. Barrett a play with a shadowy, uninteresting plot, but written in his wildest and most amusing fashion. You laugh all through the piece, and when you get home you wonder what made you do so, while ...

... [Communications for this column must reach the Editor on IV edncsdays. THOSE who are, or at any rate pretend to be, in the know concerning the proposed Hamilton-Caiyll-St. John opera on the bans-Gene subject, seem to think that the project is virtually abandoned. They suggest in the first place that the author of the libretto is carefully abstaining from either seeing or reading Sardou's ...

... . Blanciiard Jeruolu sold farce, Cool as a Cucumber, is now introduced at the Lyceum as the lever du rideau, and The Winter's Tale, accelerate t iu its action, begins rather later in the evening. It can hardly be said tlmt the mantle of the late Charles Blathews exactly tits the broad shoulders on which it has fallen, or rather on which it lias been placed, by tho cheery confidence of BIr. ...

... THE CHARM. By Walter Besant and W. H. Pollock. Dramatis Person.. Gaston, Marquis de Montserrat. Bernard, Chevalier de Saint Aionan. Baoul, Vidame de Chatillon-Cursay. The Baron Alderoran. Colin. Isarelle, Princesse de Chalons. Helene, Duchesse de Perigord. JeanNettb. Place Paris. Time Seventeenth Century. ACT 1. me baton oj the Duchesse de I erigord. Decoration, .Louis Quinze style. Portraits ...

... DRAMATIC DIALOGUES. BY FRANK RICHARDSON. M ...

... A DRAMATIC DIARY B^ ao Fa23S^t=H!gflh^tE:>.!)', Flames and an Undertaker. THE theatrical atmosphere, meta phorically as well as practically, was decidedly warm last week, not to say torrid. There was a horrid suggestion of sulphurous flames about the funny part of The Sin of William Jackson. Mr. Chipps, the unintentionally comic undertaker; handed his business cards to nearly everyone on the ...

... CROTCHETS AND QUAVERS. ON SEQUELS OF OPERAS. Operas and novels enjoy an equal popularity, and in many im portant respects their resemblance is striking. In each, a fictitious story is worked out, and the three acts of the opera correspond to the three volumes of the novel. The opera, like the novel, gene rally concludes with the marriage of its hero and heroine; although, of course, there are ...