... THE STAGE. LMR. SIMS REEES'S FAREWELL. The following are the lines (written for the occa- sion by Mr. ?? H. Pollock) which Mr. Henry Irving spoke at Mr. Sims Reeves's farewell concert at the Royal Albert Ball, London, on Monday night:- Oft have these ...

... unusuall large audience gathered together in the anticipation of a programme of great attractiveness. Mr. Cross does much to keep alive the popular interest in Handel's mlusic. The choruses of Samson, which move in the massive and melodious manner charateristio ...

... and there a funny scng or bright bit of orahesttation, and once a ohamng change (A scene-the interest is kept alive throughout. M, Hugh Aloss may be cnsplimented for the pretty settin i of the piece as Tauch as Mr. Freeruick.Bowyer and Mr. n W. E. Sprange ...

... through its second reading stage, though after that stage the Central News has eon to believe that ianntes wailbe seed.T Chancellor of the Eachequer is advised that he can aerry the second reading ftage of the Bill, thougi tifme may not permit of it going ...

... ht-foner.a xf series of scones more or lose ele.ly onn-erned if ntile turf, and it may be fairly ad mitted ththat ir- . re;t onee ?? thp aieds suafed it, it thoroughly alive, although 1)y hr -s tiha' arC amore expedient ?? atistie. It is this otsnata o ntt-rest ...

... A STAGE MANAGER ON STAGE COSTUMES. In reply to the Lord Chamberlain'$ elreular, Mr. George J. Vining, lessee and manager of ?? Theatre, has sent a letter to Lord Syduey, in which he says: For some years I have neither produced pantomine nor bur. lesqueat ...

... 'hc Ambassador would lbe a Letter work if it had stronger situations, more of that human interest whbieh keeps the attention rivetted to the stage. There is never even an approach to excitement, for tile end of the little episode of Vivian Beauvedere, ...

... Be THE STAGE. TH - SIR HIENRY lILITING AT THE ROYAL, Sir Henry Irving and his powerful company on c Monday opened the second week of their all too t] brief visit to the Royal with Charles Reades well- A known adaptation of the French melodrama, Le tL ...

... desire(l. not only for the sake of authot of aund manager, but in order that its admitted defects l1s5 of dramatic technique may not keep away the large 1 a number of playgoers who could not fail to find its 1n structural faults moane than compensated for bky ...

... of Shakesapearea plays diould be brought wijeLA rte moans of thie great bulk of the people;,attd we b(N that Mar. Ysanagau. may find himself able to continrrtd' tire path he is treading. ; _Mfacbeth, like its predecessors, is of all-round el, cellente ...

... reception. By the way, it may not be generally known that Dickens intended A Tale of Two Cities for the stage before he published it in book form, and submitted it to a French friend for production on the Parisian stage. The French censor -it was during ...

... Such an en- tirely human and natural crowd has hardly ever before I been seen on any stage. Its naturalness has been drilled into it to the highest perfection of art. Its emotions were swayed this way and that by the elo- quence of Antonius, and were ...