... THE STAGE. DIARY OF ENTERTAINMENTS. Theatre linsat.— Pcsat. ac Calsbrated Priars'a Theatre —Vmtnen Queen's Tbeatre.— Tbe Survivor. (*lusty of Var'etisa—alr. W. J. Ashcroft, Ira Voy. Leclerc'. So., and Variety Company. Alexandra Mune —Powerful ...

... have does To keep the show gem In the most successful way, Though time. was hard, end work was ' • scarce, mid folk were loth to pay. s Pre new retired from active beaus 'pro,' bound to take an is what we call 'the chew'; And rye notioed Mai the moralists ...

... 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, ...

... bankers after boiled-down Shakespeare, twice nightly. is what we may to, for nobody knows to what base cues we may not return. When the inevitable happens, therefore, we may be entertained with somethieg lice three sore of TEN-MINUTE TRAGEDIEfi ...

... Provincial Stage. Formerly the provincial stage served a valuable training ground from which the Londone theatres drew their most capable recruits. To-day the provincial stage, for the most part, is merely a far-away reflection of the stage of the capital ...

... 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 ...

... generally. Here and there a coMpany may a▪ doisg tolerably well; but in tbe mein, things Ldvsptan may be described as horribly Al an instance of how shocking it is possible 1 7 cI L9s11y bad theatrical business to be, even in may tell you that ODO evening last ...

... 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 ...

... LONDON LETTER BY CORRESPONDENTS. Loxdox, Night Cobdenitea and the Shipbuilding ■Bounty. Radical clamour for State bounty to keep alive the Thames shipbuilding industry under artificial conditions has almost entirely died away since the Admiralty made its ...

... 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 ...