... 011 one side or the other, are excellent reasons why there should be oases in Clubland where men can talk of sport and the theatre, of Shakespeare and the musical glasses, without dragging in the Budget or the House of Lords by the ears. India ^'le s'lac'e ...

... Christmas, but not quite so busy as usual. The making of new children's plays has apparently lost its attraction. The Court Theatre, for instance, is content with an old one, the ver sion of Alice in Wonderland which has done duty before, and with a few ...

... a visit to a legiti mate theatre entails. But that the music-hall sketch will ever injure the regular playhouse it is difficult to believe indeed, it is much more likely to send more people from the music-halls to the theatre than it takes away. There ...

... AND HARD TO PLEASE. Our photograph shows Mr. George Robey as Dame Trot, in Jack and the Beanstalk, the pantomime at the Theatre Royal, Birmingham. Photograph by the Rotary Photographic Co. K ...

... way in which such works are manufactured. About five years ago a farce, called The Dictator, was presented at the Comedy Theatre. It came from the United States, the author was Mr. Richard Harding Davis, and the company American. The Dictator proved ...

... this week. My subject was created for me when, having been bottled up tor what appeared to be a week within the walls of the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, I turned hungrily to the Savoy Hotel. I was not alone. No wise man ever goes to the Savoy Hotel alone. To ...

... cannot risk delay in the cloak-room. There is no room under her seat, or anywhere else, for the precious mass of millinery. Theatre-managers will have to provide big hang ing-racks, with the numbers of the seats duplicated on them, for women to hang their ...

... dining rooms to be empty, will have to find some way of entering into rivalrv with the restaurants. Men who are going to the theatre dine early at their clubs because they get their dinner quickly served there, but after eight o'clock most of the dining-rooms ...

... ot expense. For background he has one of the most beautiful pictures of rural scenery it would be possible to find in any theatre. Seated on a stile in immaculate shoot ing kit, with a real gun under his arm, he carries on an amusing dialogue 011 sporting ...

... X V c'\ r* c JMEIH M'-----l>:&? W *.5: THE clubs, the restaurants, and the theatres have been pro vided as never before with the news of the polls. The clubman, of course, has the best of it, and no clubman has had a more exciting time than the members ...

... THAT NAME. Miss Mabilia Daniell is to create the part of Cleopatra in Mr. Rider Haggard's play of that name, at the Strand Theatre in Mr. Robert Hilton's coming season there. She will also play Marion de l'Orme in Bulwer Lytton's Richelieu. -[Photograph ...

... .A. _ V.. ;:.v.v';;* THE THEATRE ORCHESTRA. DOWN to a few years ago, the sounds that beguiled the tedium of the entr'acte in the most of our theatres enjoyed the title of music by courtesy only. Save in a few of the very best houses, the selection ...