A biscuit's throw from the Criterion, at the gorgeous new Her Majesty's Theatre, they are busy over the initial arrange: ments re the Grand English Opera The Prentice Pillar, by Reginald Somerville young man is only thirty, yet he is making giant strides on the road to operatic glory. Unless I greatly err, he is the coming Sir Arthur Gallivan of the century. He is versatile, ho is painstaking, he is a cultivated musician full of ambition, What more would you have? Mr. Charles Frohman, America's Sir Augustus Harris, had best open his managerial eyes, and capture this young man's works, while there is time.
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