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... . Mit. Lewis Waller, the Hotspur of Mr. trees revival ot Henry IV., gives an excellent performance. It is moreover a Shakespearian one a most desirable quality for a Shakespearian part but one which some of Mr. Waller's colleagues do not bring so much in to evidence as he. Mr. Waller how soon the time flies 1 is becoming quite an old actor. He has been beiore the public for nearly fourteen ...
... . Capt. Danglisli. Mr. E. P. Sells. Mr. Pragnell. Mr. W. F. Cook. Miss Leslie Giibblc. Mrs. Gribble. Mr. G. J. Gribble. Miss Gribble. Mr. Wall. Master G. F. Pragnell. THE VICE-PRESIDENT'S TENT. T1IE COMICAL RACE-- AT THE START. THE STARTERS FOR THE CHILDREN'S RACE. THE COMICAL RACE-- AT THE FINISH. Millar. Payne. Knight. Burnand. Bardsiey. HALF MILE SCRATCH RACE THE START FOR THE FINAL. ...
... . The Queen is back at Windsor again. The Duke of York on Thursday dined with the officers of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. The Czar is suffering from jaundice. The Emperor of Austria is sitting for the portrait of himself that he is to present to the King's Dragoon Guards, of which he is Honorary Colonel. The King of Italy has made Sir John Millais an officer of the Order of SS. Maurice ...
... . THREADING THE NEEDLE. LADIES' EGG-AND-SPOON RACE. A COCK-FIGHT. I A SACK RACE. LADIES' POTATO- RACE. WHEELBARROW RACE. A COCK-FIGHT. SLINGING THE MONKEY. Photographs by Horace Nicholls. ...
... The occasion being the glorification of the movement for the higher education of women, so triumphantly carried on in the Ladies' College which queens it over Cheltenham, it doubtless appeared to some a trifle maladroit on the part of the authorities to have selected for per formance a play by the poet who, of all men living or dead, has done most to propagate the old-fashioned doctrine of ...
... . The appointment of Mr. William H. Cummings as Principal of the Guildhall School of Music, vice Sir Joseph Barnby deceased, is invested with peculiar interest (writes a Sketch representative). Mr. Cummings not only succeeds to a chair unusually admirably filled by his predecessor, render ing his new position one of much difficulty and onerous responsibility, but this is the first appointment, ...
... MR, ROBERT BRIDGES. A representative of The Sketch called upon Mr. Robert Bridges at his office in the Scribner Building, on Fifth Avenue, New York, to ask him why he was himself-- in other words, why he was Robert Bridges, and not Thomas or John Bridges. He reminded him that Robert Bridges was the name of a distinguished English poet, whose friends and the English public, such of it as read ...
... THE WORLD OF SPORT. CRICKET. The cricket, and even the general sporting world, has been stirred to its depths by the question of the qualification in an England team of K. S. Ranjitsinji. The famous Sussex amateur was found guilty of not being born in England, and so the selecting committee of the M.C.C. decided to leave him out in the match just played with the Australians at Lord's. There ...
... OUR LADIES' PAGES. FASHIONS, FINERY, AND FURNITURE. The Sandown Meeting that follows Ascot is always a great occasion for the display of smart race-gowns, and last week's 'Thursday and Friday fully bore out these much-trimmed traditions. The lawn was, in fact, a NEW JEWELLERY AT SIAPPIN AND WEBB'S. feast of good things, from the millinery aspect, and one's eye roved distractedly perforce from ...
... . DY JOHN llOLLINGSHEAD. THE death of Jenny Hill, which had been expected for some time, removes from the variety stage one of the few artistes of real genius who have ever contributed to its success. Though Jenny Hill was welcomed at the big houses, which subsist chiefly upon spectacular ballets and sensational performances, she was the life and soul of all the London and provincial music ...
... . THIS is the title of a most elaborate publication, the work of Mr. Edwin A. Sachs and Mr. E. A. E. Woodrow, and published by Batsford, 94, High Holborn. Printed in large type and containing more than 200 lates of exteriors, interiors, and details, beautifully reproduced by the artists and engravers, nothing could be more attractive to the eye. And the matter, written exhaustively, both from ...