... TnE Ventnor Entertainment Club gave their third perform ance of the present season on Tuesday last, at the Town Hall. Miss Julia Roberts, Mr. Falkner Leigh, and Mr. W. Clifford were the vocalists in the first part, and Mr. Cotsford Dick, Mr. Robert Sewell, and Captain J ephsou, R.N appeared respectively as Cox, Box, and Bouncer in Sullivan's operetta of Cox and Box, with great success. Mr. ...

... THE ILLUSTRATED mtfr gnmralic LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1880. ...

... ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. DRAMATIC. Amateur. Charles Mathews never wore false-hair mustachios, which arc uncomfortable, and require care and attention. He painted thorn, and did so very skilfully, inasmuch as they were often supposed to be real. Alfred Gamble. Mr. Thomas Dibclin wrote a large number of pantomimes. Jane Barhaniti.-- Mrs. Lessineton, an actress of repute in the last century, is ...

... THE ILLUSTRATED Spiling Hub- gntnralic ftcfrrs. LONDON i SATURDAY JANUARY 10, 1880. ...

... CHESS. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. S. W. Thanks and good wishes. Score and particulars next week. S. W. E.-- Thanks for your letter the position shall be examined. Tioht Stays. Your card has only just reached us. Your solution 01 5J is correct. A. B. S. Best thanks for your copious information. G. C. H. We fully reciprocate your good vjishes. W. P. Your Magazine is very acceptable. Solution ...

... THE ILLUSTRATED ^prlmg mxij grmafir ftefos. LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 18S0. ...

... ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. DRAMATIC. A.-- No for although Macready in his Diary describes liis having carefully consulted historical authorities while studying the part of Richelieu, lie does not mention the authors or the works he made use of. One of the pithiest descriptions of Richelieu in our memoiv is that contained in 44 The Original Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz which says 44 ...

... Poor fellow, rich as lie had been he died in great poverty, as you might guess. It may be remembered that King J olin was a part in which Sheridan's father won great fame. Sheridan used to say that his scene with Hubert was such a imisteipiece of dramatic art that no succeeding personator of the character had ever approached him.-- A. H. W. ...

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... CHESS. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Mi mi Your solution is correct, but it is not the author's. A pawn on the square from which you play the Kt would prevent your cook as you seem to despise easy puzzles, why don't you send us solutions to difficult 0IleS A T 1 A. J. S. The problem you refer to is, we believe, quite correct. In reply t o P to K 7, Black plays B to K 5, and there is no mate next ...

... THE ILLUSTRATED jprlM0 Hiiir graimtic LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1880. ...

... ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Mr. Charles Dickens, the editor of All the Year Mound, was born in London, in January, 1S37. A few days before and in the February fol lowing his father and mother were in lodgings at Chalk. These facts originated an error in Mr. A. H. Wall's last paper on The Homes and Haunts of Charles Dickens, which we must ask our readers kindly to correct. His Last Cruise. ...