are closing one by one for an August holiday, and managers are busying their brains over Autumn productions already... Sir Henry Irving will probably re-open the Lyceum with Madame Sans Gene. By the way, the eat Réjane has not. thrown Miss Ellen erty in the shade. The French actress gives a charming interpretation, but the English actress has a charm all her own. Fora few evenings miss Terry was out of the bill and Miss Gertrude Kingston did the _merry Parisian Iaundress, scoring a great hit in the part on entirely new readings. Whatever Miss Kingston does, she does in the best artistic manner, and her Queen of ranting this move. Meantime the popular form of amusement is the musical comedy. People prefer it to heavy plays, and gives scope to composers with a light musical touch. Several novelties are mised in the autumn.
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