... FAMOUS AMATEUR DRAMATIC CLUBS I.-- THE OLD STAGERS. IN the year of grace 1840, some young and enthusiastic amateur actors just from Cambridge, looking for fresh fields to conquer, found at Canterbury a theatre not too large for their efforts, and an audience, drawn from the cricket-field and county and barracks and the Cathedral Close, which was prepared to take amateur performances, as ...

... IfBth Crufar Wmm> VI.-- THE WELLINGTON. NOW that the irrepressible Mr. Ritz, not content with his cathedral in Pall Mall, must needs set up a chapel-of-ease in Hyde Park Court, the Wellington has the honour and the distinction of beating the Bachelor's by about a street in the race for the West-- in other words, it stands nearer South Kensington than any other Club in London. I know not ...

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... MR. BEERBOHM TREE'S CONCEPTION OF HADES. OUR ARTIST HAS A NIQHTMARE AFTER WITNESSING THE PERFORMANCE OF ULVSSES, AT HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. ...

... . BY ALICIA RAMSEY. LAST year, Mrs. Hilary was the happiest woman in London. To-day, she is the most miserable woman in the world. That is because Mrs. Hilary was silly and was jealous of her Jack. (Jaw WTr jack is Mrs. Hilarys nusbana. He is 1 17S2& -fi ver)' rich, very smart, and very tall. He J also has heaps of clothes. He invariably calls Mrs. Hilary Ducksie. There doesn't seem ...

... . I WAS, candidly, never more impressed with the astonishing youthfulness of the modern grandmother than when visiting the studio of a fashionable photographer some days ago. It would seem that one of the latest developments-- freaks, fads, call it what you will-- of modern vanity is for the superlatively young gran l' mère of the moment to be photographed with the latest baby grandchild on a ...

... CITY NOTES. Th Next Settlement begins on Maxell 24. The Stock Exchange and War News. WE ventured last week to point out that not even Lord Kitchener could tell what the course of the War would be, and before the words were in print the capture of Lord Methuen more than justified our observation. If the matter could be allowed to rest where it is, we should be very glad, but, as has happened ...

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... OPEN TO ALL READERS OF THE TATLER. First Prize A 105 G uinea. Grand Piano by Broadwood. Second Prize-- A beautiful Colour Drawing by Maurice Greiffenhagen, Value 30 Guineas. Third Prize An Original Drawing by Charles Wyllie, Value 20 Guineas. Fourth Prize Nine Bound Volumes of The Sphere. Fifth Priz e-- F our Bound ^^wing to the popu larity of the puzzle competitions, which were begun in ...

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