... such as Miss Irene Vanbrugh. For myself I had certainly thought that the subtly attractive Smith would keep her glorified parlour-maid's place at Mr. Chudleigh's theatre for some time to come. But this, it seems, was not to be, so there is nothing for it ...

... house of thatch where dwells the Old Man Who Looks After Fairy land, sitting by parlour-windows that look away from the world. He made them welcome in his star-ward parlour, telling them tales of Space and when they named to him their perilous quest, he ...

... adds one of her typical ditties, Everybody likes our Mary, whir.h reveals t.he exoessive popularity enjoyed by a pretty parlour-maid. Since the first night Mr. Coyne lias worked up his part from an outline to a finished picture, and the whole thing now ...

... hard-working peasants, who lived apparently in a huge Louis XVI. drawing- room with costly curtains, accepts a situation as parlour maid with a lady who lives at Ostend. Undaunted by the warning of her young man the hideous maiden rushes headlong into service ...

... vegetation to get up and bow its acknowledgments. Then the Ui [f romance begins. It is the old storv jjt of the way of a man with a maid, f i ?r 1 r with the usual depressing result. 'y yy Basil Gregory, the son of a ship- owner Hong Kong, has fallen in love with ...

... and told lies, and put on disguises, and uttered soliloquies, and kept promising to double the wages of the complacent parlour-maid, and laughed almost incessantly but The Blue Mouse dragged, and failed to revive the past glories of the Criterion as the ...

... ever chance to be inside the Strand Theatre when Mistress Wilful is being acted for they will find there a crowd of men and maids and wives all settling themselves down happily-- or standing cheerfully-- to greet the entrance of two well-loved friends whose ...