... MISS MAUD JEFFRIES. ...

... MR. AND MRS. WEEDON GROSS MITH. MR. vveedon LtRossmith was married on Thursdav, 14th, at St. Luke's, Chelsea, to .Miss May Palfrey, the original Nancy Roach in The New Boy. The ceremony was of the quietest possible character. Mr. Weedon Grossrnith has been so pro minently before the public and has been so recently referred to in these columns that his stage career will he fresh in the minds of ...

... . THE Philadelphia Press has interviewed Mr. Beerbohm Tree, and gives the following as his views of the drama and his im pressions of America: The ..erican public is very like the English public, the noted manager said, and many people who have dined late go to the theatre and look upon the drama principally as an aid to digestion and not as a means of education. They look upon life itself ...

... VIZI ANAGRAM RACE MEETING-- PORTRAIT OF THE MAHARAJAH. THE opening of the East Coast Railway in the Madras Presi dency has brought another meeting into touch with the chief Indian racing centres. Madras, Bangalore, Secunderabad, and Poona are now in direct communication with Vizianagram, and in the course of a few years Calcutta will be also connected by rail. As the line will be open in ...

... MISS ROSE LECLERCQ wears two stylish dresses in her character as the mother of the fin-de-siècle Gwendolen. The first is of mushroom-brown velvet. The skirt is quite plain, but the bodice is trimmed with narrow jet and gold passementerie, a wide band of the same being carried down the back. A charm ing waistcoat of pink satin, covered with a network of jet and gold thread, is let into the ...

... MISS FOIiTKSCUE. ...

... . Cicely The next day I bought this little ring in your name. Hits. Pkism Poor Ernest it's a sad blow. John Wobtiiino-- I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden. J i Gwendolen c ...

... . In the not very imposing but exceedingly expensive thorough fare known as New Bond-street you will, if properly directed, find Mrs. Watson, who has practically a monopoly of prodigy production. It is only within the last few years that she has devoted her energies to teaching, and the success of the pupils who have passed through her hands is adequate proof of Mrs. Watson's fitness for her ...

... . As the young society lady whose mother believes in birth rather than money (a species likely soon to be as extinct as the dodo) Miss Irene Vanbrugh has, in her present role as Hon. Gwendolen Fairfax, an opportunity for the wearing of effective dresses, and she eagerly takes advantage of it. In the first act she appears in a most stylish gown of pale primrose and corn flower-blue striped silk ...

... NORTHERN CROSS-COUNTR Y CHAMPIONSHIP. As already recorded, the Northern Cross- Country Champion ship was decided at Blackpool on Saturday week, and, some what unexpectedly, J. Harrington, o( the North wich Harriers, nuisueu i irs i in excellent lorm in 56 min. 53J sec., beating the next man, R. J. Moran, by 1 min. 64 sec. Harrington joined the North wich Harriers 111 January, 1894, and in the ...

... . THE executive of the Southern Cross-Country Championships were well rewarded for postponing their senior race for a week, as Saturday last was by far the pleasantest day we have had this year, and gave us our first foretaste of spring. The sun shone brilliantly from a blue sky, and possessed so much power that an overcoat was almost an unpleasant encum- brance, even when standing about. ...

... . A SHORT time ago the Queen expressed a desire to see Mrs. Keeley. The matter was soon arranged, and last week Colonel Collins escorted the veteran actress to Buckingham Palace, where she had the honour of being received by Her Majesty, the Empress Frederick, and Princess Louise. Mrs. Keeley's own account of the reception shows how fully she appreciated the high honour conferred upon her by ...