... THE CANTERBURY. Fully confident of finding a liberal entertainment supplied here by Messrs Crowder and Payne the holiday folk have besieged the doors at an early hour, and have nightly crammed the vast building almost up to that sliding roof which is so well adapted for letting out the smoke and letting in the air and for keeping the atmosphere pure and the visitors comfortable. On Boxing ...

... Although it cannot be said that the weather since Boxing Night has been altogether favourable to purposes of locomotion, yet, so far, the street traffic has not been impeded to any serious extent, and notwithstand- in-g the general depression of trade the metropolitan theatres, especially where pantomimes had been provided, bave been well filled with holiday folk. Remembering the great number ...

... F1RENCH PLAYS AT THE ROYALTY. On Saturday, December 26th, a Comedy, in Four Acts, by MM. Meilhac and Bialevy, entitled LA BOULE. M. Paturel ?? . Bnzra, M. de La Musarditre ?? M. aScY Camusot ?? . DA1CBERT ?? M. RICQUIKIL Me. Cornillon ?? .. M. PmTIT - Me. Martineau ?? ANDRAL Le Greffier ?? . RrSPAL Le Rl-isseur ?? M. Gcains.v Ir Musicien ?? i M.a nosx- 2e Musicien ?? ?? 1. TOURNIER ...

... LS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDE1NTS.) ABERDEEN. HEn MAJESTY'S THEATRE.-Lessee, Mr WX. I'Farland; General Manager, Mr Reginald Hare.-The pantomime -Little Bed Biding Hood-is in excellent running order, and affording gratification to numerous audi- ences. The performers are all well up in their parts, and certain of the principals, accepting in proper spirit some kindly meant words in last Era, ...

... The Great International Cirque at Covent-garden Theatre commenced another season on the afternoon of Boxing Day, and attracted an immense audience that filled the vast building right up to the roof. Through the summer and autumn we heard from time to time of marvellous journeyings to foreign climes, undertaken by Mr Win. Holland, the manager, in search of talent, and certainly he is to ...

... (FRON OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31. - The famous drama wvhich the Porte-Saint-Martin revived last night was the first of Victor Hugo's plays. He wrote it in 1829 at the age of twenty-seven, and in twenty-four days ! Hernani, though produced the first, was written three months later. M1ARION DELOOIiME was originally entitled Un Duel soss Riclhelieu. and was intended for ...

... The Grand Theatre, Hyson Green, Nottingham, now only requires a few finishing touches to bring it to com- pletion. The local bench of magistrates have been applied to and have granted a licence, subject to one or two small matters being attended to. The proprietor of the building is Mr Councillor Morrison, and he is to be congratulated on carrying out and bringing to com- pletion an ...

... THEATRICAL TREATrS TO THE POOR. Onl the afternoon of Christmas Day about 400 children were provided with a Christmas dinner at the Lambeth Ragged Schools, Newport-street, Lambeth-walk, through the kindness and liberality of Bliss Edith Woodworth, whose name is well known in the theatrical profession The children, who wvere nearly all of tender age, were in the majority of cases connected with ...

... THE DRAMA. IN AMERICA. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) NEW YORK, DECEMBER 17.-There has been abso- lutely nothing doing this week in the theatrical world. No new piece produced, no revivals, unless you accept Miss Lotta's turning up aaain as Mam'selle Nitouche at the Standard as a revival. I, for my part, would call it an infliction. Miss Lotta may have been very charming once, and no doubt the ...

... HENGLEJ1 S CIRQUE. A grand fairy spectacle entitled Cinderella has been produced here for the entertainment of the Christmas holiday folk, and upon this production Mr Hengler appears to have bestowed infinite pains. The company which is engaged in representing the charming legend may as well be at once named together with the charac- ters sustained by them-Cinderella, liss Violet Camp- bell ; ...

... TIHEATRICAL GOSSIP. MRs LANGiTIRY will orien her second season at the elegant 1'rince's TheQatre, on February 1st, with a new five-act pl]y, written by ?? Charles Cogihlan. It will probably he calleul Enemies. The author will himsclf appear iii it. Mrs Langtry will play a stroncz part, and among her sullporters, in addition to Mlr Coglilan, will be Mesrrs J. Firnairdez, F. Everill, J. G. ...

... The followinbg letter has been addressed to the Editor of The Times:- Sir,-l deeply regret to find that your dramatic critic is an advocate of the system of judgment summed up by himself as whistling, cat-calls, singing, and other demonstrations that go to the 'guying' of a piece.' I had hoped that the brutal uproar with which the efforts of a most courageous and capable actress were ...