... PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Mr. Booth closes his engagement with a surprise and a disappointment. The disappointment we find in his Shylock, of which we were led to expect great things after his magnificent performance of Lear. As with all this gifted actor's ...

... OPERA COMIQUE. This theatre was opened on Monday last with Miss Lila Clay's company of lady performers. The merits of the entertainment are not inconsiderable, and the novelty of the idea will probably fill the theatre for some little time to come. Upon ...

... Oulton's History of the Theatres, vol. iii., pp. 177 to 180, and also to E. W. Brayley's history, pp. 42 and 43. The new theatre was opened on Saturday, June 15th, 1816, with an appropriate piece the one with which the old theatre opened its doors Up all ...

... concluded the good fortune of himself and the Lyceum Theatre for a great many years. Between 1830 and 1834 no Lyceum Theatre existed at all, but the Company performed at the Adelphi and one or two other theatres for short seasons. Arnold had a hard time of it ...

... LONDON THEATRES. THE LYRIC. On Monday evening, Deo. 17, 1888, this new theatre, situate in Shuftesbury-avenue, of which Mr. Henry J. Leslie is the solo proprietor and lessee, was opened to the public with the 817th consecutive performance of the successful ...

... LANE THEATRE. We last week promised to return more fully to the consideration of Mr. Augustus Harris's latest triumph, Babes in the Wood, and Robin Hood and His Merry Men and Harlequin Who Killed Cock Ro .in. A pantomime at the national theatre that did ...

... LONDON THEATRES. THE VAUDEVILLE. On Friday evening-, January 4, 1839, was produced here a new one-act oomedy, written by Fred. W. Broughton, entitled The Poet. The Hon. Arthur Fdne Mr. Cyril Maude Harry May ton Mr.Gillmore Mark Ferriby Mr. F. Thome Ki'tv ...

... LONDON THEATRES. THE PRINCE OF WALES. On Saturday evening, January 12, 1889, was produced here a now three-act opera comique, music by Planqaette, words by H. B. Farnie, entitled Paul Jones. Taul Jones Miss Agnes Huntington HuAmo de Martinez Mr. Teiupler ...

... LONDON THEATRES. THE CRITERION. Still Waters Run Deep is an old play as time goes in the theatres--a play from a hand accustomed to the looser technique that still obtained in dramatic authorship thirty-four years ago. But, though old and hackneyed, this ...

... LONDON THEATRES. THE STRAND. On Wednesday evening February 6, 1889, was produce! at this theatre the farcical three-act comedy, written by J. H. Darnley and G. Manville Fenn, entitled The Balloon. Dr. Oljnn Mr. Oco. Giddcns Captain Cameron Mr. Forbes ...

... LONDON THEATRES. THE HAYMARKET. Shakespeare's comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor, so successfully tried at several matinees by Mr. H. Beerbohm-Tree, was on Saturday, February 9, placed in the evening bill of the Haymarket Theatre, where, if we may judge ...

... LONDON THEATRES. THE ROYALTY. Continuing the high level of excellence which has marked his present season of French plays from the reginning, M. Mayer has, thia week, revived La Doctoresse. This piece waa tho rage in Paris four years ago, and was soon ...