ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. B EASE.7-T1e deaths was announced in our issue of Sentantr 296th. FAUS-T-YOU -itt fictz ott tele ateriaZ you require in the columns of The Era. T IV. K.-The drama is not yet published, and the acting rights are still reserved. R. S.. ?? a matter of tast

THE ROYAL. We are not likely to weary of the story of Aladdin, in whatever form it is set forth. When, therefore, Miss Harriet Lauri, attired in the classic raiment of the Greek Chorus, appeared befofe a beautiful black and gold curtain on the night of our visit to Mr Purkiss's

The recent attempt by Mr ALEXANDER HE.DaR- so50 to encourage the public, by a discount of 10 per cent., to book seats at the Avenue Theatre itself, and not at those agencies for the sale of tickets known collectively as "The Libraries," was worthy both of our symipatlhy and of o

But few changes have been made in the programmes of the week. To the Italian ballet of Bxceesior at HER MAJESTY'S the graceful dancing of Miss Kate Vaughan has been added, and the two-act comedy of Secret Service now furnishes a dramatic prelude. The last nights of MIr John S. C

Disengaged. LEONA RD S. OUTRAM, mJR.F ' Jeune Premier, U ROles c Passion and Sympathy. WILFRID DENVER, Macori, ArmandDuval, HC. Theatrical Exschange, 25, Russell-street, WV.C. B. EDWIN LEV EBR, OEAHOUSE, STOCOPORT. Six Nights, Oct. 19th. ~z J. E. D O DS O N. ar'j the ost olever a

- TO THE EDITOR OF THE ERA. Sir,-The following particulars, and, very far mere, their result, are so important to all musicians in England and to every one who visits this country from abroad, that I trust you will give them publicity in your columns. On the receipt of a communi

THE LATE M. EMILE PERBIN. (FROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT.) The death of DI. Emile Perrin, which you briefly announced last week, was terribly sudden at the-end of his long illness, and came upon Padis as a painful sur- prise. He had transacted business with the secretary of the Co

On Thursday. October 15th, the Celebrated Comedy. by Charles Reade and Tom Taylor, "MASKS AND FACES." Sir Charles Pomander ?? Mr J. H. BARtESc Ernest ?? Mr GreasE NevILLSs Colley Ciboer .Mr FcRACIe JERRoAn ?? CEcIL M. VORKes Lysimachus Triplet . Miss R. GERATTA Triplet ?? ?? r C

TO THE EDITOR OF THE ERA. Sir,-I notice in your columns October 10th a letter signed "Necromancer" in reference to the bird-cage trick. I beg to state the dead birds that "Romancer" (I mean " Necromancer") says he saw were not caused by the famous flying bird-cage trick, but thr

One of the most serious difficulties with which the stage has had and still has to cope, has been, is, and we suppose will be, found in the invention of the plot upon which the words and action of every play depend. The old Greek drama was so much an exposition of the religion o