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Grey River Argus, Volume XI, Issue 949, 11 August 1871, Page 3

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The following information respecting theatrical matters will be of interest to our readears : — Mr Charles Dillon played a short engagement at the Surrey Theatre lately, after which he went to Newcastle-on-Tyne. He is now in London organising a company for the provinces, and there is a plan afoot which, if carried out, will place him at the head of a company in one of the London theatres, where the legitimate drama will be performed. Mrs Hermann Vezin (late Mrs Chas. Young) has completed a roost successful engagement at St. James's Theatre. She is regarded as the leading actress in London of parts requiring tragic force and earnest declamation. Mr G. F. Howe is at the Theatre Royal, Birmingham, playing his ever-green Mr Micawber, with his usual success. It is understood, also, that he will appear in London in a new character in the coming autumn. Mi9S Julia Matthews is at the Gaiety, playing in "No Song no Supper." Mr Clarence Holt is at the Royal Music Hall, Eolborn, in an entertainment entitled " Living Photographs from Shakespeare." Mr Charles Mathews is creating great excitement in America. He k at present playing a round of his characters at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York, to crowded audiences. He has lately had a passage at arms in the papers with Mr Walter Montgomery, in which he gives that gentleman some hard knocks, and insinuates that Mr Montgomery is improving the occasion by publishing the puff preliminary in anticipation of a return to Australia. Miss Cleveland commences an engagement in Birmingham on the 27th June: Lady Don has brought her first season at the Nottingham Theatre to a close. It lasted eight months. It is understood that the principal reason of the closing of the theatre is the illness of Lady Dun, aud also of her agent, Mr Wilton. The pieces have been placed upon the stage with great liberality, and in Lady Don's usual style, and the season has been successful. Miss Carry Nelson has been playing at Yarmouth. Mr Richard Young's company was at South Shields last week, playing "School" and "M.P." Mr Charles Wilmot has for the present refused offers of engagement for the purpose of devoting himself to the management of his tavern, the famous old " Coal Hole/ in the Strand.