... I IN £NGL AND-NOWf A LETTER FROM BLANCHE ro A COUSIN IN THE COLONIES London, January 3, 1916 I 'ear Cousin IN my time, anyway, I shouldn't think any New Year had ever dawned on such a fearfully tense feeling as there is in England now. For one thing, we really are just about fed-up to the brim with the wait-and-see ways of the political crowd, and when Parliament meets again this week it ...

... U I Item One Pantomime Item One Revue I j j -l BY JINGLE. PUSS IN BOOTS AT DRURY LANE THE pantomime is, of course, the hardy annual at Drury Lane Theatre Royal, the subject being Puss in Boots. I suppose it is a sacred tradition which may not be altered that compels pantomime merchants to stick to the old nursery stories, in spite of the fact that the modern child seems to have outgrown ...

... I Send Him a Bairnsfather Picture t THE IDEAL GIFT FROM HOME TO THE TRENCHES No. 1. WHERE DID THAT ONE GO? No. 2. I'M SURE THEY'LL HEAR THIS DAMN THING SQUEAKING CAPT. BRUCE BAIRNSFATHER At work on one of his drawings No. b. THE PROFESSIONAL INSTINCT AGAIN Portrait Hoppi No. 3. A MAXIM MAXIM No. 4. NO POSSIBLE DOUBT WHATEVER No. 5. THAT EVENING STAR SHELL Six of the famous Bairnsfather ...

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... Quite Like Old Times A STAGE AND PEERAGE WEDDING IN WAR-TIME v THE HON. MRS. ROWLAND WINN Formerly Miss Evie Carew, a member of the chorus at Daly's Theatre where she has appeared in Betty. Her marriage with the Hon. Rowland George Winn, the eldest son of Lord and Lady St. Oswald took place at Paddington on October 29, but was kept secret until last week. The bridegroom, who is in the ...

... SLACKERS IN KHAKI A NOTE ON HOME DEFENCE A CORRESPON DENT takes us to task for our recent appeal to Viscount French to make Home Defence popular. I think it is perfectly disgraceful at the present moment the way the stay-at-home soldier is able to disguise himself in khaki so that you cannot tell him from the men who have volunteered for the Front, and we want no more of this sort of thing ...

... 3 1 BY ALEX. J. M. GRAY Kir-** i z=^=Sl To 1916 REPENTANCE oft before I swore; but was I sober when I swore? What's it matter, anyway? The resolution that takes a New Year to inspire and justify it will want a New Year every half-hour to maintain it. Therefore I swear no oaths on the calendar, and although I may repent my sins of om and com, they are as like to occur again in 191b as in the ...

... MR. HENRY FORD Photographed aboard the Peace Ark (ss. Oscar II.), at Christiania. His mission was a fiasco. But one day, Peace will be concluded, and Mr. Ford will figure less as an unpractical altruist than as a very practical advertiser ...

... Somewhere in y/anderJ BY OUR CORRESPONDENT AT THE FRONT My Dear Bystander YOU will have read in the papers of the impromptu arrival of a British cargo ship on a sandbank in the neighbourhood of Ostend, the captain, unfortunately, in the darkness mistaking Ostend for X--, his legitimate port of call. It is said locally that a newly captured German prisoner has stated that, at the first ...

... MADAME YVONNE GRANDV1LLE For a few weeks, in the absence of Mile. Delysia from the cast of More, the widely popular revue at the Ambassadors Theatre, the delightful Victorian scene, with charming music, was greatly freshened by the introduction of the art and wiles of Madame Yvonne Grandville, whose accomplished style lent a new touch of grace to many of the gaieties of this revue. As a whole ...

... Someidhere in Colanders BY OUR CORRESPONDENT AT THE FRONT My Dear Bystander UNTIL fairly recently the impression that one used to get of the war-- the little bit one sees-- was that, as far as the artillery was concerned, and excepting always the periodical occasions of attack on either side, it was an enterprise run on well-con ducted and systematic lines, just as if a large firm of ...

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