Dixs Gaiety Company re-open at the Theatie Royal on Monday night with a host of fresh taJent. Among the special attractions are the Juvenile Dartos who have speedily installed themselves prune favourites wherever they havei appeal ed. Mr. Val Vousden, whose character impersonations haye 1 been vastly enter taining to Australian audiences, is also on hand. Pope and Sayles have leturned with more material for broad grins, and Rangiuia, the Maon tenor, will help along the cause of melody. * * * At the Opera House, the Anderson Dramatic Company revived The Ladder of Life" on Saturday, and ran it to good business up till Wednesday when the season closed. There were several changes of the original cast Miss Fitzmauriee Gill, for instance, played as the Russian nurse, which she did very effectively and Miss Masie Maxwell appeared as the heroine, Meg Meriilees, while Miss Helen Fergus gave a clever character sketch of that hard piece of goods, the baby farmer. The other parts were in the same hands as before, and the performance seemed to yield much satisfaction to the public. * # • Montgomery's Entertainers closed their season at the Exchange Hall on Tuesday, and have set out on a country tour northward ho. This bright and picturesque little show can be strongly recommended to our country cousins. They will find it to be well worth therir patronage. * * ♦ Dr. PeebW popularity as a lecturer is unquestionable. On Sunday night the New Century Hall was crowded to the doors as usual, and his discourse on "The World's Bibles and Religions A Pilgrim in Search of Truth," proved quite fascinating, so interestingly was it treated. At the close, a large number of written questions were pithily answ ered. Harold Ashton has flitted once more hack from New Zealand to Brisbane, and his name now appears as lessee of His Majesty's* Theatre there. Under the management of Tommy Hudson, Musgrovp's new dramatic company start ed a reason on the 20th of May with 'The Sorrows of Satan." « • * Once at a dinner party in St Peters burg, Cmquevalli, the juggler, was a&ked to do something to amuse, the company The excuse that he had none of his implements did not avail, for his host handed him a knife, fork, and pota to to see what he could do with them. 