Literary and Theatrical Gossip.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 120, 27 February 1872, Page 6

Literary and Theatrical Gossip.

Delano, a native of Ireland, is the editor) of the London Times. Ho is one of the i hardest worked men in London. He was | preceded by Barnes. Delane’s real name | is Delaney, but for “foreign” purposes ho j 1 transposed it to Delano. The city editor is j aMr Sampson. It is well known that the! Times city article never opposed, a loan of the Baron Rothschild’s. Mr Walter is one | of the proprietors of the Times, and a Justice j of the Peace in Essex. The reader of the | Times gets about £‘ 1,000 per year, but is ; fined Is for every misspelt word. Some of the printers get pensions. It is the only | threepenny paper in England with an mi- j diinished circulation. But the Dai h/ TcJe- • graph has the largest circulation in England ; 1 perhaps in the world. Its chief leader writer l is J. Herbert Stack, its second George i Augustus Sala—author of “ Twice Hound the I Clock,” “A Journey to the North,” “My; 5 Dairy in Russia,” “ Lady Chesterfield’s Let- j i tors to her Daughter,” Arc., Ac. More than half the reviews arc written by j civil servants. Anthony Trollope was for j years in the post olHco on a salary of £BOO per I annum. Edward Yates, author of “Black ; j Sheep” was and perhaps still is in the civil . service. The charming Charles Lamb, long | dead, was a clerk in the India House. Arthur I , | Helps, who edited for the Queen, “ Oar Life • |in the Highlands” is clerk to the Privy i Council. r i Every member of the Royal Family has a ‘j trade. The Prince of Wales is a baker. Helen Faucit is married to Mr Martin, a • most accomplished man of science and art. Ho is on very intimate terms with the Royal jcircle. There ai>o about forty theatres in London. ! Dion Boncicanlt said he could supply them '! all with new plays. He is a continued copyist. ■! Nearly all his plays are taken from the French. 1 j The “Colleen Pawn” is borrowed from '.Gerald Griffin’s “Collegians.” Griliin lived . iin Macrcady’s earlier days, and ho died of a 1 broken heart in a monastry at Cork. Ho wrote a splendid tragedy entitled “Gissipus.” There are very few legitimate actors or ‘ actresses in England, hut few as they are, they are quite enough for the demand, as [ burlesque and melodrama alone can command . paying houses. It is not very long since that , a play was nw winced called “ Formosa”—For--3 mosa being nothing less than a common prostitute. After much difficulty Miss Kate f Rogers was got, to play the naughty heroine. 1 The music halls encroach on the remains of the stage. Nothing can equal the grandeur | of the ballet at the Alhambra Palace, where 3 four hundred ballet-girls, all surrounded by r blue dame dance in graceful groups, amidst 3 .flowing fountains in the background, all glittering iu the ilare of artificial moonlight. [The Hayinarkct still holds allegiance to [comedy. A new circus has been opened by Mr Monger, and the comparatively new one jin Holboru still contains Lulu, who jumps j-j from the floor twenty feet upwards, and alights like a cat. Sothera—“Lord Dun- ; dreary”—has gone to the States. He gave a I grand benefit to a theatrical charity before I leaving, and he said that in his early years | he had often been dismissed for incapacity.

It is said that a simple and successful treatj meut of diptheria maybe found in the use of lemon juice. Gargle the throat freely with it, so as to reach all the affected parts. A ! French physician claims that ho saved Ids i own life with this nleasant remedy.