The Theatres
... THE fashion of performing plays by companies composed entirely of ladies-- whereby the Elizabethan custom of assigning both male and female parts to men is exactly reversed-- appears to be spreading w ...
... THE fashion of performing plays by companies composed entirely of ladies-- whereby the Elizabethan custom of assigning both male and female parts to men is exactly reversed-- appears to be spreading w ...
... jVovelk! WE learn that An Old Man's Love (2 vols.: Blackwood and Sons) is the very last novel that will appear from the pen of Anthony Trollope. Regret on that score has been so often expressed, tha ...
... Lady Betty is a beauty of tender years and a Duke's daughter. Naturally she is a great catch as a guest for an enterprising American woman, who aspires to the smartest ...
... Allen Raine's new story, Queen of the Rushes (Hutchinson and Co.), is not only romantically conceived and picturesquely seen, but it has a larger merit. The characters appear to ...
... The Shakespearean revivals at the Lyceum, under the direction of Mr. Irving, have all been remarkable for the care bestowed upon the scenery and accessories but hitherto no one has equalled the beauty ...
... lie to flhsu MESSRS. B00SEY AND CO. Hope Temple is at her best in two songs, for which she has composed the music for the one, You Called to Me John Muir has w ritten the pathetic poetry for the other ...
... NEW NOVELS NOEMI MR. BARING-GOULD has travelled out of his usual lines of country and of period in his story of Noemi (1 vol.: Methuen and Co.). His stage is the Valley of the Dordogne, about Domme ...
... Ilu liElutTtrcs MUSIC AT THE MATINEE THEATRE ST. GEORGE'S HALL, so long known as the home of the German Reeds (though it has also in its day housed an Italian opera com pany and a Christy Minstrel tro ...
... THE dramatic event of next week will, of course, be the produc tion on Thursday of Lord Lytton's posthumous play Junius; or, the Household Gods, at the PRINCESS'S, with Mr. Wilson Barrett in the chara ...
... At the Theatre: Do All-Star 9 Casts Make a Good Play? We have now had the last of the series of revivals which have marked the present season, and, as it is the most important of all, I should like t ...
... SIGNA, by Ouida (3 vols.: Chapman and Hall).-- Ouida has this time got hold of a singularly effective situation, and tells two-thirds of her story in a vivid and life-like style, and with no small ...
... MESSRS. S. SPRAGUE AND Co.-- A clever and well-written song of medium compass is Who Can Say? written and com posed by Edward Oxenford and J. H. Gower, Mus. Doc., Oxon.-- Waiting at the Gate is a ...