... vQ-v, ALTHOUGH last week was the busiest that has come the King's way for some time, his genius as the maker of a programme enabled him to crowd in many hours of recreation. After a day filled with the calls, and callers, of Empire, he had the spirit to spend his evening at a place of entertainment of like name in Leicester Square. The next morning, the pains and plea sures of his Majesty's ...

... THDLITEK^K> Iqunger OF the many futile remarks which are made by critics, one of the most futile is that such or such a theme is not a proper subject for a novel or a play, or what not. I don't mean, of course, that I have no objection to indecent subjects being taken-- that, I hope, goes without saying. But we are often told that a novelist or a playwright must not take any phase of madness ...

... Mr. Arthur Williams as Lurcher. Miss Constance Drever as Dorothy Bantam. A GOOD BOY, TOO I MISS LOUIE POUNDS AS LYDIA HAWTHORN IN DOROTHY, AT THE WALDORF. Dorothy/' which was pat on at the New Theatre for a short run, has now been transferred to the Waldorf, where it promises to have a successful career. Photographs by the Illustrations Bureau ...

... ,1\ -L;.'' THE Queen's wedding-gifts to her fortunate god daughter remind us that, However dutiful her Majesty may have been, god -parental duties are not now generally considered very binding. It was otherwise even in the epistolary Lord Chesterfield's day: not only did he take a share, amounting to ten guineas, in expenses in curred by the arri val of his god child, but having remembered ...

... PAPER AS A TABLE DECORATION THE LATEST CRAZE. FOR USE ON FESTIVAL OCCASIONS: REMARKABLE SCHEMES OF DECORATION IN PAPER. In the instances illustrated the table-cloths, the serviettes, and the table-decorations are all of paper, but there is no reason why the paper decorations should not be used in connection with the ordinary linen cloth and table-napkin. A good deal of ingenuity and a good ...

... RETNOTES -A THE Opera-house will open its doors on Saturday night, and for a month at least there will be one valuable gilt to set against the rigour of the London winter. Special interest attaches to the performances of the Wagner Ring Cycle, because it is understood that there will be no German opera in the season that opens with May, and those who rank the Ring operas among the most ...

... THE MARRIAGE OF THE KING'S MASTER OF THE HORSE THE OGDEN MILLS' HOUSES. i. Thb Boat House of the Ogden Mills' Palatial House, Staatsburg Manor. Ihe Dining- Room of Staatsburg Manor, on the Hudson, in which Lord AND LADV GkANARD ARE SPENDING PART OF THEIR HONEYMOON. 3- The Scene of the Wedding of the Earl of Granakd and Miss Ogden Mills the Ogden Mills' New York Residence. 4. The Lawn, and the ...

... j: ^Chc IPrussian Diet 1 ^.n Indigestible Item t MISS OLGA DESMOND, THE DANCER WHOSE COSTUME CAUSED A DEBATE IN THE PRUSSIAN HOUSE OF DEPUTIES. Photographs by Skowranek Miss Olga Desmond, believing that true health can be obtained only by the permanent discarding of clothes, has been the sub)ect of a heated debate in the Prussian Diet. According to report, Miss Desmond has danced in what the ...

... STRICTLY PERSONAL BUT NOT CONFIDENTIAL. TACKLING THE HALF HUNDREDWEIGHT MR. GEORGE ROBEY PUNCHING THE SAND -BAG. Mr. George Robey, the famous music-hall comedian, is a great believer in physical exercise, and is at considerable pains to keep himself fit. As is generally known, he is a keen foot baller, jnd he also goes in for punching the sand-bag. It is his custom to have a half-hundredweight ...

... CBK, xBfetw J *j£hP r Aw THE King, faithful as ever to old friends, dined in Belgrave Square with Sir Arthur and Lady Paget one even ing last week. It is impossible for her friends not to go on and on con gratulat ing Mrs. Arthur, as she was then called, on her most marvel lous re covery from her fall down the well of a lift. Science, no less than nature, has done wonders. She now walks ...

... v j| '**v THE King's visit to Crichel reminds us that his hostess is one of the most admired amateur actresses of the day-- and they are many. Dozens of ladies have lately thrown them selves into the new game-- played with human pieces on the boards of the makeshift stage in private houses. The first dramatic performance to be regulated by the nobility and personages of dis tinction took ...

... THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING MISS THE CHARLESWORTH AFFAIR. THE SPOT AT WHICH THE CHARLESWORTH MOTOR-CAR IS SAID TO HAVE STRUCK THE WALL OVER WHICH, IT WAS STATED. MISS VIOLET GORDON CHARLESWORTH WAS THROWN, TO FALL INTO THE SEA BELOW. j Photo. Topical. THE SLOPE DOWN WHICH, ACCORDING TO THE CHAUFFEUR'S FIRST STATEMENT, MISS CHARLESWORTH FELL AFTER BEING THROWN THROUGH THE WIND SCREEN OF THE CAR. ...