... Tke N ew Ervtertairvmeivt a.t tke Savoy Tkeatre. I thank the conductors of the Savoy Theatre very sincerely for giving us such a de lightful entertainment as Ib and Little Chris tina and The Willow Pattern. TX/T r. Basil Hood's transcript of Hans Andersen's story of lb and Little Christina is a perfect gem, so true, so delicate, so tender, that its career at the Prince of Wales's, where Mr. ...

... . The article which recently appeared in these pages dealing with theatres in South Africa under martial law has aroused much interest, and I am now able to give some further particulars about the company at present playing at the Vaudeville Theatre at Bloemfontein. The company is the Leigh-Pierce Comedy Company, and is the joint venture of Mr. Harry Friedman, Mr. Frank Pierce, and Mr. Herbert ...

... V A RIETY ENTERTAINMENTS. In Old China the Empire authorities have presented a ballet that registers the high- water mark of their achievements in colour and maintains the usual high level of excel- lence in dancing and music. The story is a very pretty one, dealing with the quarrels of certain Dresden China lovers who dwelt on a mantelpiece and were roused to life by the mischief-working ...

... The Begin. r\ii\g of the Christmas Entertainments. The season of Christmas entertainments opened on Saturday afternoon at the Garrick Theatre with the revival of Shock- headed Peter. Its success is exceedingly heartening, because the piece is typical of much that might be done to make Christmas enter tainments in the playhouse really enjoyable. Shock-headed Peter has probably cost a tenth of ...

... Christmas Entertainments for Children in. London Theatres. It is with unfeigned pleasure that I record the forthcoming production at six first- rate London theatres of pretty plays primarily intended as a Christmas entertainment for little people. In these columns and elsewhere I have ranged myself as an inveterate opponent of the old form of pantomime which obtains throughout the whole ...

... . It is a characteristic of the new school of Christmas entertainment that the services of children are utilised. In The Swineherd and the Princess at the Royalty we have Miss Violet Darrell and Miss Marion Wright. Master Laurence Emery, whose picture as lb in the beautiful Savoy production is shown elsewhere in this issue, appears as the Tiny Domo in The Swineherd and the Princess. jVTiss ...

... PLAYS, MUSIC, AND OTHER. ENTERTAINMENTS Week by Week. Miss Margaret Fraser, who dances so charmingly in Blue-Bell in Fairyland at the Vaudeville, learned her art at the Gaiety. Latterly she has been at Daly's. Though she is of Scots origin she is no relation to Miss Agnes Fraser of the Savoy. TV /T r. George Mudie, jun., who plays the part created by Mr. Walter Passmore in The Willow Pattern ...

... . Mr. Tree's appearance as Falstaff gives an unusual interest to the Austrian actor, Bernhard Baumeister, who has just celebrated the jubilee of his fifty years' connection with the Hofburg (Court) Theatre, Vienna, one of whose best performances is as Falstaff. Herr Baumeister has played no less than 6,000 times at the Hofburg and. since 1857 has been court actor, that is, a full member of the ...

... . Lamb's idea of Australia, expressed in one of his most amusing letters, seems to have been Mr. John Foster Fraser's idea of Siberia, that of an exclusive convict settlement. Hence his reactionary enthusiasm expressed in almost every page of The Real Siberia. No doubt he had glimpses in his hurried scamper through the country of the traditional Siberia and heard occasionally of its horrors. ...

... PLAYS, MUSIC, AND OTHER ENTERTAINMENTS Week by Week. The theatres are quite out of it in their recognition of the coronation, for by a curious irony the praise of the King has been left to the more democratic institution-- the music hall. We have big coronation ballets at the Empire and the Alhambra, and the smaller halls have made special preparations. An enterprising theatrical manager might ...

... Reviewed by T. W. H. Crosland. To the person possessed of imagination the writing of serious history is a department of letters which may very con veniently be left alone. Of course history has its literary poss.- bilities, but they are certainly not of the light fantastic order, and if you would be a historian you must needs be solid and judicial. It is certain, however, that the gaiety of ...

... , Week by Week. For the first time in its career the Savoy Opera Company has gone on tour. Nobody understands the tour ing business so well, and few managers have made so much money as the house of Carte; but the parent com pany has always devoted itself to London, while, per contra, it is only within the last few years that a touring company was heard in the metropolis. But the times change ...