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DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL.

Frl. Ellmenreich, a famous German actress, scored a great success in New York as Jane Eyre. She is the first actress who has rightly conceived and interpreted this charming character.

The Yale College Glee Club are so well satisfied with their recent success in Boston that they will return during the month of April.

Mme. Marie Rose has been presented by the Queen with a handsome bracelet set with precious stones and a magnificently bound copy of the late prince consort's musical compositions, in recognition of the satisfaction afforded by her singing recently at Osborne.

M. Lecocq wrote the score for "Le Jour et la Nuit" in two months. He usually takes plenty of time for composition. The music is decidedly charming, possessing much of the rich, southern voluptuousness of Audran's melodies.

"Few people," Puck remarks, "discover their mission until it is too late. Perhaps when Anna Dickinson attains her twenty-first year she will find out that her forte is not "Hamlet."

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Miss Lilian Alcott, a well known society lady of Brooklyn, will make her debut on the dramatic stage before the close of the present season.

The appearance is announced of Henry Irving and Ellen Terry at the London Lyceum as "Romeo and Juliet."

Mr. McVicker has severely assailed Rev. Herrick Johnson, a clergyman of Chicago, for his attacks on the theatre.

Edwin Booth will go to Germany next season. He will speak his lines in English, but will be supported by a German company. His Western tour was not very successful.

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