... VICTORIAN FARCE THE NOBLE SPANIARD, at the new royalty. MT.'v. I ,v*v. .2>l v. v. ;.v. m 4* Mr. Justice Proudfoot (Mr. E Lya. r. Pwkte), Returning prom Shrimping, is Encountered by the Duke op Hermanos (Mr. Chari.es HawtklyI, am. is Informed that that Gentleman is the Duke of Hermanos, Marquess of Alcalar, and a Grandee of Spain, with the Right to Wear is ai IN THK PRESENCE OF THK KlNG. Thp. ...

... CRINOLINE COMEDY THE NOBLE SPANIARD, AT THE NEW ROYALTY. I. MISS KATE CUTLER AS MARION NAIRNE, THE WIDOW WITH WHOM THE DUKE OF HERMANOS FALLS IN LOVE. 2. MR. CHARLES HAWTREY AS THE DUKE OF HERMANOS, GRANDEE OF SPAIN, THE NOBLE SPANIARD. 3. MISS KATE CUTLER, AS MRS. NAIRNE, ACCOMPANYING LUCY IN A SONG BY FELICIA HEMANS. 4. MISS FANNY BROUGH AS LADY PROUDFOOT (AFTER A SEA TRIP), WHO THINKS THAT ...

... The Stilling of the Near East. The special correspondents and the soldiers of fortune who had taken up their temporary abode on one side or the other of the Servian frontier are on their way home, halting for a day or two in Paris to forget the taste of Paprika and onions; and Semlin has become again an uninteresting little village, and Belgrade is as dull as any small English country town. I ...

... 5^ Tlltr MAN-ON^#? Tfflg' J The Opening of Brooklands. The Brooklands season may be said to have opened last Thursday with the Club-supervised trials of the 18-22-h.p. Armstrong-Whitworth car. At least, it was the first time that the newly made hill was brought into use for official testing purposes, and a party of experts and technical journalists were invited down to watch the operations. 1 ...

... Bevis and the Brewer's Daughter. Mr. Hubert Henry Davies seems determined to have a little niche all to himself in the current drama. His pieces become slighter and slighter, and Bevis is perhaps the slightest play that ever had the slightest chance of success on the English stage. Probably the Haymarket piece will have a long run; some have prophesied this, and I have no doubt that many ...

... Tlllr- NAN -ON W? TIll^- CAK^[ The Maker of Brooklands. To the majority of motorists Mr. Locke-King's distinctive appellation is but a name. One may attend Brooklands a hundred times, and though one may rub shoulders again and again with the progressive enthusiast whose brain conceived and whose money materialised the Brook lands track, his identity, unless specially indicated, remains ...

... THE WOMAN ABOUT TOWN. Many Marriages. Easter over, Society's fancy seriously turns to thoughts of wedding-garments. Seldom if ever before has April been fixed upon as the month of so many mar riages. In that of Lord Dalmeny to Miss Dorothy Grosvenor, dated for Thursday, special interest centres. His is an interesting indi viduality, and his father has filled the public eye many times in his ...

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... r BEARS THAT WILL EAT THEIR MASTER TWICE DAILY. MORE FUR COATED MUSIC-HALL ARTISTES! 1. POLAR BEARS WHO ARE TO PERFORM IN THE ARCTIC, AT THE LONDON HIPPODROME? ONE OF THE BEASTS EATING ITS MASTER. 2. POLAR BEARS WHICH WILL BE THE CHIEF ACTORS IN A GREAT CHRISTMAS SPECTACLE i ONE OF THE BEASTS OBLIGINGLY BECOMES A PILLOW FOR ITS MASTER. Seventy fur-coated music-hall artistes arrived in London ...

... (to T3R? KG JZS V Ho' -^gjgjwr V The Derby. It is now understood that D. Maher will ride Lemberg in the Derby of 1910, and Alec Taylor thinks the horse will win-- and he is no mean judge. I for one certainly should not trust to Neil Gow were any other jockey than Maher in the saddle, as the colt is a bad one at the gate, and it would never do for him to have a lot of ground to make up at the ...

... ■■■'^1^ t ^^.,,-.£t--t\ va r „^v>. x z.r I 4 1 v A Play About Playwrights. When a dramatist of great and well-earned reputation writes a comedy in which the three chief characters are playwrights we expect to learn something about the craft and craftsmen, but after seeing Mr. Carton's work Lorrimer Sabiston, Dramatist I do not feel that my knowledge of dramatic authors is in creased. It ...

... l * Mill* K Ki^e> S&S kS BY ERNEST A. BRYANT. Improved Hospitality. The King of Portugal, when he visits the City- to-day, will receive a welcome such as the City always accords to popular royalties. Elsewhere he fares better than did persons as illustrious as himself during part of the previous reign. Then, it was complained, everybody seemed to be out of town when any recognition of ...