... AN AMATEUR'S FAREWELL. Mr Percy F. Marshall, one of the most prominent members of the Roscius Dramatic Club, and connected with it since its foundation in 1877, took his farewell of the amateur stage on Monday evening last at the Ladbroke Hall, previous ...

... AMATEURS AT BLACKHEATH. The Fifth Kent Artillery Volunteers may be complimented upon the histrionic talent of their dramatic club, which gave this week three performances at the Alexandra Hall, Black- heath, the attendance being good, and the dramatic ...

... tile professional man i has to aim at something different fromn the aim or the amateur, for one is tbe servant whiie tile other is the master, or his sitters. Pile amateur can choose his sittershjis time, and his conditions, while tile profes- sional ...

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... CHARITABLE AMATEURS. Many absurd things are done under the cloak of charity, and frequently, as we know, ridiculous amateur performances take place under the pretence of doing good while the real object is simply to give amateur actors an opportunity ...

... The Thespian Amateurs, Tkb q 'A I toe gentlemanly comedians connected with the abovs-named Club gave a performance at the Polygraphic Hall on Wednesday last to a fashionable circle of friend and acquaintances and the business of the evening began withs ...

... AN AMATEUR DEALER.* So thin a line of demarcation divides the professional from the amateur, that any one may be forgiven for an occasional trespass from one side to the other; but Mr. Hazlitt appears from his confessions to have been a kind of bibli ...

... Conqguer. In this the amateurs had been well coached by Mr IV. H. Desny-lhiu- self a member of the Club-and matters proceeded with very commendable smoothness. This ?? progress was due in no small measure to the fact that the amateurs had been wise enough ...

... has been said that everything the amateur attempts is bad, whether it be pie-crust making, portrait painting or play-acting. The dogma is a sweeping one, and we hesitate to accept it. Heaven knows, however, that amateur acting as a rule is bad enough. Its ...

... AMATEURS AT BEALING. The members of the Acton Football Club, assisted by the Lotus ?? gave a performance at the Lyric Hall, ling, cu Wednesday evening. The programme consisted of a new and original farce, by Mr T. Murray Forde, entitled T/se S7lctort ...

... I _ AMATEUR THEATRICAS Last evening a very interesting performnauce amateurs tookl place in the Gaiety Theatre. The attendance, as might have been expected, Was e,. tremely large. No doubt the season was sufficient to account for the absence of a very ...

... AMATEURS AT HAJMMERSMITH. At the Iffley Hall, Hammersmith, on the evening of the 6th inst, an amateur performance of Mr Edward Rose's adaptation of Le Gendre de Monsieur Poirter, entitled Equals, and the first representation of a new comedietta by Mr ...