... FROM SILKWORM TO SILK STOCKING. The Chinese Silkworm Farm which is Included in the Hong Kong Section at Wembley Where Visitors May See the Production of Silk from the Cocoon Stage to the Finished Article THE COCOONS ARE PLACED IN BOILING WATER IN ORDER TO ALLOW THE SILK TO COME OFF IN ONE STRAIGHT PIECE LADY HO TUNG EXAMINING THE COCOONS ON THE WICKER FRAME ON WHICH THEY ARE PLACED FOR ...

... VARIETY AND ITS AUDIENCES. The Atmosphere of Three West-end Theatres where Vaudeville Still Holds Sway AILAM BOTT In a recent issue of The Sphere we published an article by Mr. Alan Bott on First Nights and their Audiences, dealing with the distinctive atmosphere possessed by certain of the big West-end theatres. This article Mr. Bott now supplements by the one published below on Variety and ...

... . By R. P. Hearne. The fourth International 200-miles race organised by the Junior Car Club will be held on Saturday, September 20, at Brooklands. The main points of interest in this year's race are the inclusion of an additional class for cars up to 750 c.c., and the running of the three classes (750 c.c., 1,100 c.c., and 1,500 c.c.) together. The 200-Miles Race All competing cars will be ...

... . FOLLOWED BY AN EXCELLENT RUN THE OPENING MEET AT CLOUTSHAM. The Devon and Somerset Staghounds opened their season last week with a meet at Cloutsham, and a very good hunt was provided by a stag roused in Sweetery, the pack being laid on below Langcombe Head. The history of the Devon and Somerset is a highly interesting one, and really dates back to the time of Queen Elizabeth, when Exmoor ...

... Ring Gossip w by Bohun Lyncfr. Author of Knuckles and Gloves, etc. THE LESSONS OF THE BIG FIGHT. WHATEVER may justly be said of writers in the daily papers who, in the past, have boosted poor boxers into the position of champions, they have, on the whole, been blameless with regard to Jack Bloomfield. No one seriously regarded him as Britain's Hope; they only hoped that he was. And there was ...

... ASHORE AND AFLOAT AT COWES SOME PERSONALITIES. SIR CHARLES ALLOM (EXTREME RIGHT), THE OWNER OF WHITE HEATHER, AND HIS GUESTS: (L. TO R.) MISS WOODROW, SIR HOWARD AND LADY FRANK, AND MAJOR AND MRS. LLOYD GEORGE. ON THE MARIA: L. TO R. (BACK) LORD BIRKENHEAD AND HIS DAUGHTER PAM, COL. BRABAZON, AND MRS. SHERLOCK, SIR. W. CHIL- COTT, COUNTESS BIRKENHEAD, MISS PETERS, AND MISS JOHNSON. LADIES AT ...

... AS AN ARAB DANCING GIRL: MISS NORMA TALMADGE. There are many beautiful shots in the new First National film The Song of Love, in which Miss Norma Talmadge makes a striking success of the part of Noorma-Hal, the beautiful dancing girl. Our picture shows the scene in which Ramlika, a desert chief (Mr. Arthur Edmund Carewe) accuses Noorma-Hal of betraying his plans to the French spy, whom the ...

... 4 Lawn TENNIS Log 5y A.W.M. BRITAIN was girt with rackets last week. No less than twenty open tournaments were in the official list. Allowing an average of two hundred competitors at each, the solid block of prize aspirants (and of those who pay the two shilling Association fee), must be reckoned at a round four thousand. Of course many high hopes were cast down, there was many a fret 'twixt ...

... I FRIDAY TO MONDAY AND PARIS. I1 fj By A GRASS WIDOWER. j j 1st ess^* Paris. I DO not know whether-- as so many people will assure one-- the Paris advertisement hoardings are the brightest and gayest of any European capital, for I do not happen to have visited more than three or four of these cities, but I certainly believe that-- so far as theatre posters go-- the Parisian artists are ...

... ENO's FRUIT SALT TO THE VERY INCH HOW the Exe trout on those Dulverton flats do love to rise with their noses under the boughs. It looks as though they think themselves safe there. But a dry fly dropped in exactly the right places will often secure several brace of good ones. The difficulty is to get the fly to fall under a bough and possibly between two twigs or leaves, with enough slack ...

... FASHIONS FROM STAGE \ND STALLS. ByT FLORENCE ROBERTS. BINNIE HALE'S many changes of attire in The Odd Spot, at the Vaudeville, having been duly chronicled last week, you shall now, as promised, have descriptions of some of the many other noteworthy dresses in the new revue. And first place in order of attraction must, I think, be given to the one worn by Madge Stuart in Dancing Love, the ...

... THE DOG WORLD. GUN DOGS-- OTHER SPANIELS. BEFORE starting my article this week I should like to correct an error which appeared in our issue of the 2nd inst., when Juno, the Dropper, was described beneath her picture as a first cross between a setter and a spaniel. The word which should have been used in place of spaniel was, of course, pointer. The present writer was not responsible for ...