... Fin townI Undou^ At Sandringham. HIS MAJESTY has taken the fullest advantage of the one or two bright days towards the end of last week, and with the Prince of Wales and several of the men who were staying at Sandringham enjoyed some fine pheasant-shooting in the neighbourhood. rj 1909. 'Phe year which closed last week may be regarded as one of exceptional activity, politi cally, and other ...

... THE SEARCHLIGHT IN SOCIETY Ouir Opeini ILetteip. No. ILXXXVII. ILadly ILsuiminggton. MY LADY,-- We who go about the world see all sorts of men and-- women. But you are rather a surprise as never before have I come across a woman, still young, who is at once clever, worthy, but so entirely undecorative. In these days every woman should be beautiful, or at any rate own a fatal fascination, but ...

... THE POPULAR aa PIMHUE 99 AGASM AT HUS MAJESTY'S. PINKIE, TOMMY, AND CINDERELLA Bur ford In the second act of 41 Pinkie and the Fairies, the revival of which has proved one of the most popular holiday attractions in London theatredom, Pinkie (Miss Iris Hawkins) and Tommy (Mr. Philip Tonge) introduce their cousin to the fairies in the wood. Here appear all the most celebrated characters in ...

... Fromm Otm3 Ameiricaini Cousin. DEAREST EVA,-- It is really too sweet of you to say you always like to hear from me as my let ters interest and amuse you. When I read your note I felt like dear vulgar Uncle Jefferson out West, who used to say that he was all hit up when anything particularly tickled his vanity. But if you mean what you say, honey, then I will write real often. There is so ...

... MiiscellllsiinieoTas Amusements* AT the top end of Regent Street two most excellent forms of enter tainment are to be found. At St. George's Hall Messrs. Maske lyne and Cook-- or rather, Messrs. Maske lyne and Devant, though, after all, it is the same thing-- are housed (or is it homed?). It is invariably a wonderfully lascinating show ollered by these extra ordinary gentlemen, and what the ...

... WITH SILENT FRIENDS By Richard King. A Deeply Interesting Book. IN Parenthood and Race Culture: an Outline of Eugenics (Cassell), Dr. Caleb Saleeby has written a deeply interesting book. Moreover, it is a work which has for a very long time been greatly needed. It will hardly be con sidered as pleasing to the enormous mass of sentimentalists, who are in such a great preponderance in this ...

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... Is the youngest daughter of the Earl of Buchan, and is married to Captain the Hon. Walter Guinness, the youngest son of the millionaire peer, Lord Iveagh. Lady Evelyn is a practical helper in her husband's political work, and is a skater of little practice but much promise at Prince's Skating Club. Small, fair, and petite, she is one of the pre tiest women in English or Irish society Rita Martin ...

... IN TOWN AND OUT PICTQRIALL.Y. RING our THE OLD, RING IN THE NEW: THE SCENE ON NEW YEAR'S EVE OUTSIDE ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL In accordance with custom many thousands of people from all parts of London assembled outside St. Paul's Cathedral, where they patiently waited to see the Old Year out and the New Year in amid many and indiscriminate hand-shakes and pulls from bottles which all visitors ...

... . MR. AND MRS. BERNARD PARTRIDGE AT MONTE CARLO The famous Punch artist with his wife was one of the early arrivals on the Riviera this season, and the above snapshot taken the other day shows them in the grounds of the Hotel Windsor, where they are staying. Mr. Partridge (another portrait of whom is inset) is perhaps the greatest master of line work now living, and his weekly cartoons in ...

... Music of the WeelL, Duke or Devil. ONE of the most interesting musical events recently has been the production at Manchester of Mr. Nicholas Gatty's one-act opera, Duke or Devil, by the Moody-Manners company. The music has both dis tinction and individuality, and the book is piquant and clever; the work was a conspicuous and well-deserved success. Mr. Qatty is quite one of our cleverest as ...

... A ILITTILE CEMDEIREILEA-- AND A EUTTILE lOMAMCl. Miss Mary Glynne, a portrait of whom is seen above as the winsome heroine in the pantomime, Cinderella, now being performed at the Strand Theatre, is the 11/-year-old heroine of tie little romance, and Master Moritz Lutzen is the thirteen-year-old boy who burnt the midnight oil at the shrine of her beauty. The youthful composer went to see ...