... AX INTERVIEW WITH MISS ROSINA BRANDRAM. OF all the Savoyards Miss Rosina Brandram has been the most consistently true to the standard under which she en listed when she first chose the light opera stage as a means of livelihood. For some two or three years, however, it seems doubtful if Mr. D'Oyly Carte was really aware of the splendid artist he had in Miss Brandram, as we find her playing ...

... . THE third annual dinner of the Westminster Abbey Old Boys took place last Saturday at the Victoria Mansions Restaurant, where .Mr. J. C. Barrett presided over a company of about seventy. Mr. Avalon Collard, the well-known tenor of the German Reed Company, who is himself an Old Boy, was in the vice-chair. \fter a most enjoy able dinner had been served, a concert and the usual toasts were ...

... MR. MAURICE FARKOA IN AN ARTIST'S MODEL. miss pounds. I can't help laughing. miss studuolme. ...

... LADIES WIIO HUNT. MISS NAYLOR. ...

... SOME LONDON MANAGERS AND ACTING MANAGERS.-- No. 1. MR. AGOSTINO GATTI. MR. F. G. LATHAM. MR. STEFANO GATTI. MR. HENRY DANA. MR. CHARLES MORTON. MR. 0. P. LEYILLY. MR. H. J. n ITCH INS MR. SILVANU8 DATJNCEY. MIL 0. DUNDAS SLATER. ...

... THE KENTUCKY PICCANINIE3 AT THE EMPIRE THEATRE. Mr. T. R. Hunt's Original Kentucky Piccaninies, who are appearing nightly with great success at tiio Empire, are a troupe of youths with more or less of negro blood in their veins. They are a good-tempered, interesting, and intelligent body of lads, who apparently pass much of their leisure in joking and arguing with one another. Their names ...

... FITTED TRAVELLING BAGS. MAPPIN and WEBB'S Train de Luxe fitted Suit Case, in hand-sewn Solid Leather or Real Crocodile, com- MAPPIN and WEBB'S Engadine Pressing Bag, in Real Crocodile comnletelv fitted with Chased P y attcd with SterUn8ilveraud Ivory Toilet Requisites. The fin de eiccU travelling requisite for gentlemen. Silver and richly CutGlass Toilet^quiaites' DetaUs Free 8 ...

... MESSRS. FRED STOREY AND HARRY GRATTAN-- THE VIGILANCE COMMITTEE. ...

... . (Some Nutes by an Old Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News Hand SCENE: Moore-park Cricket-ground, Sydney. Time: five minutes to noon on the sixth day of the first of the five test matches between Australia and the team of triers, as Mr. A. E. Stoddart called the cricketers he has brought out with him. Looking backwards a bit-- though you in England have heard it all by cable, of course-- ...

... . A GREAT deal of interest has been shown in Sussex and Brighton in the formation of a new golf club on the Southdowns, five miles from Brighton on the direct road to London. Pyecombe village and the quaint Plough Inn have long been familiar to hunting men, two or three meets being held there every season. The particular spot chosen for the new links is on an undulating ridge of downs below ...

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... . THE popularity of Abel, who is known as The Guv'nor, would probably, had the weather permitted, have made his benefit at the Oval a record success. The attend ance on Monday reached nearly 20,000, and although the rain stopped play on Tuesday, Wednesday's gathering was again very large. The Surrey executive generously gave Abel the choice of any home match for his benefit with the ...