... y to j nmi w t^qkecn-UPPPI j Applauding his Own Production. In the days of his earlier association with the theatre, Mr. Marc Klaw (who has just intro duced some considerable alterations into Eunice, in which Miss Fannie Ward is playing during his season at the Hicks) was associated with his piesent partner, Mr. Erlanger, and with Mr. C. B. Jefferson, a son of the late Joseph Jefferson, in a ...

... A FOREIGN language has never so prevailed at a royal gathering since the days of Teutonic race-meetings as French prevailed last week in the King's party at Ascot. The King made a point of providing for each of his French guests a companion who could do much more than uncomfortably conduct a lesson-book French con versation. In the royal procession Mrs. Standish, who is a daughter of the Comte ...

... A SHEPHERD SPECIALLY IMPORTED FOR A SOCIETY DANCE j ALSO A REAL LAMB, OF THE MUTTON AGE. IN THE GREEK PAGEANT AND BACCHANALIA IN WHICH AMERICAN SOCIETY WOMEN GAVE CLASSICAL DANrv?. miss STISF.TTE HERTER. THE SHEPHERD FLUTE -PAYER, AND THE LAMB. We add to the illustrations we gave last week of the Greek Pageant and Baeehanalia given in New York by members of the Four Hundred. The young ...

... A KING WINS THE DERBY FOR THE FIRST TIME THE GREAT RACE. I. LESS HUSTLED THAN HIS ROYAL MASTER MINORU AFTER THE RACE, GUARDED BY TWO MOUNTED POLICE. 2. NOT IN THE LEAST CONCERNED! MINORU NIBBLING GRASS AFTER THE RACE. 3. THE NECK AND NECK FINISH. HIS MAJESTY'S MINORU WINS. 4. LOST IN A SEA OF HIS CHEERING PEOPLE. THE KING LEADING IN MINORU. .--{Photographs 0/ A 'os. and j by liolak 0/ Not. 3 ...

... LADY GRANARD and her husband are to be the guests of the King and Queen at Windsor Castle for Ascot Week. But her mother, Mrs. Ogden Mills, and her aunt, Mrs. Cavendish Bentinck, attend the races together under more ordinary con ditions. Lady Granard is not yet quite accustomed to the prece dence given her over her elders but it is one of those differences between English and American ...

... r THE-- MAN- ON A Successful and Pleasurable Reunion. The Royal Automobile Club, its associated clubs, and individual associates may, I think, chronicle the fourth provincial meeting at Lyndhurst, on May 22 and 23, as an unqualified success. The hosts of the occasion being the Hampshire Automo bile Club, it was not remarkable that the rallying-point should be fixed in the New Forest, now ...

... THE WOMAN. ABOUT. TOWN. Thrills without Frills. With the Whitsuntide recess past, the hard work of amusement really begins. No more holidays until the season has come to a close. Ascot Week is a change of venue, but it is very closely part of the London Season. No gowns concern womankind so closely as those for the great annual dress-show. Many a fashion has been born at Ascot, but more have ...

... °th King Alfonso of Spain and King Manuel of Portugal here shown exchanging hats, to the eclipsing of the King of Spain are much in evidence just now: the former by reason of his interest in the Wilbur Wright aeroplane, the latter because rumour continues to inarry hira. The meeting of the boy Kings has had various unofficial explanations that they are contemplating a defensive alliance, that ...

... FOR THE WRIST AND (WHY NOT THE ANKLES. THE BEASTIE BANGLE: THE WHOLE ANIMAL FUR WRISTLET. The old c'alin that if the wrists and the ankles are kept warm the whole of the body will be warm seems to have inspired a German firm to produce the wristlets here illustrated. We are unable to state whether similar provision is being made for cold ankles. ...

... Turkish Football The Athletic Turkish Officer. ONE of the results of the bloodless revolution in Turkey is that the Turkish boys in Constantinople are following their elders, are imitating Western things, and are taking to football. I suppose they play on the very dusty parade-ground, not far from the German Embassy, which has always been the resort of all the little raga-muffins of Pera. The ...

... JIM JAM PHOTOGRAPHY. A HORSE THAT IS FIRST COUSIN TO A NIGHTMARE: A STEED TELESCOPED BY A PHOTOGRAPHER. Photogyaph by Battauce. We Rive on this page a remaikable example of freak-photography. The lesult was obt.ined without faking negative or print in any way; how it was obtained we leave it to photographers to find out. ...

... LORD CROMER, who was born a diplomat sixty-eight years ago on Feb. 26, became engaged to his present wife, a sister of the Marquess of Bath, during a well-earned holiday in England in 1901. His first marriage took place when he was twenty-five, and he had been a widower three years when he married his second wife, who is twenty years his junior. Lord Cromer is well content with his new found ...