... IT IS A FAR, FAR BETTER THING THAN I HAVE EVER DONE: MR. C. HAYDEN COFFIN AS SYDNEY CARTON, AT THE CORONET. Photograph by Ellis and IValtry.] At the Coronet this week, Mr. Hayden Coffin, forsaking comic opera and musical comedy for the time being, is appearing as Sydney Carton in an episode based on A Tale of Two Cities. During each evening's entertainment he will sing several of his ...

... The Derby. I am afraid his Majesty the King has little or no chance of winning the Derby of 1919. as he has only two horses left in-- namely, Orelius, by Orme-- Ecila, and Border Prince, by Persimmon-- White Lilac, and neither is good enough to carry the royal colours to victory. Mr. Fairie's Lemberg is very likely to become a winter favourite for the race, especially if it is announced that ...

... MANLY WOMAN AND WOMANLY MAN A SUFFRAGETTE PLAY; AND THE BOYS. MANLY WOMAN-- A BETTER PERFORMANCE THAN THEIR SISTERS IN THE CAUSE GAVE AT THE SAVOY i THE SUFFRAGETTES' PLAY AT CARDIFF. Certain Suffragettes gave an impromptu performance at the Savoy Theatre the other night in the presence of Mr. Lloyd -George, who was attending the revised version of the much brightened Mountaineers. A ...

... vV>-,,w. (-^/a!^^r-;^^-v, ''^i..^.. Jl' J THE Prince of Wales will renew several old friend ships at Powis Castle. The Duke and Duchess of Devonshire he has many opportunities of meeting and of liking; but his paths and those of the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk seldom dom run together. The most successful royal house party is not necessarily that at which all the guests are just those who have ...

... BACON TO ANOTHER'S SHAKESPEARE: LORRIMER SABISTON, DRAMATIST, AT THE ST. JAMES'S. MR. R. C. CARTON'S PLAY OF THE THEATRE MR. GEORGE ALEXANDER AS LORRIMER SABISTON. Lorrimer Sabiston, Dramatist, is essentially a play oi the theatre. Indeed, the dramatic critic of the Telegraph, writing of it, says Claude Carton, 'writer of plays,' do you fully realise what you have done? A playwright ...

... ON DUTY 1 Photograph by the Illustrations Bureau. ...

... AMONG those Princesses who may live to see themselves Queens the majority are still children, and at the head of the charming group still in earliest youth are Princess Mary of Wales and Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia. But many years must go by before the question of their marriages can enter into the sphere of nractical politics. At the pre sent time there are singularly few marriageable ...

... THE TRAGIC WIDOW ON TRIAL THE STEINHEIL CASE. Thr Presiding Judge M. Vali.es. The Prisoner Mmb. Marguerite Steinheil. Mme. Stbinhbil's Counsel M. Antony Aubin. The Valet, who Found the Bodies M. Rbmy Couillard. DURING THE DRAMATIC INTERROGATION: THE DUEL BETWEEN PRISONER AND JUDGE. Photographs by B ranger. Mme. Steinheil (now known throughout Paris as the Tragic Widow) is accused of having ...

... . 1. THE KING WALKING TO THE COVERTS. 2. THE KING AND KING MANUEL ON THEIR SHOOTING- PONIES. 3. THE KING TAKING A DIFFICULT BIRD. 4. A CHAT BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF THE SPORT-- THE PRINCE OF WALES ON THE EXTREME LEFT, THE KING IN THE CENTRE, KING MANUEL ON THE RIGHT. 5. KING MANUEL SHOOTING. 6. KING MANUEL (IN HIS SHOOTING GLASSES) WAITING FOR A BIRD TO RISE. A feature of the King of ...

... Statistics. The flat-race season, which will come to an end on Saturday, has been a busy one. Sport has been good, and form has worked out fairly well, except in the case of the big handicaps, which have been won with persistent frequency by outsiders. Subsequent events have proved that in many instances the public were right in making certain horses favourites for the races in which they cut ...

... BEETLES AS JEWELS LIVING, A TERROR DEAD, A TRINKET. J NOT AS BLACK AS HIS BROTHER OF THE KITCHEN: BEAUTIFUL BEETLES EMPLOYED BY THE JEWELLER. Photographs by Jtoyer.] Alive, the beetle is as terrible to many women as is the mouse; dead, if he be not black, he is so favoured by the fair that he forms a very essential part of a number ol their trinkets. Men like him also (which is, perhaps, ...

... KEr-NOTES] m The Paderewski Symphony. Dr. Richter's name has been associated on many occasions with the first performance in this country of notable work, so it is quite fitting that M. Paderewski's Symphony should be given to an English audience under his direction, and quite significant that every reserved seat should have been sold by the middle of last week. The great Polish pianist, like ...