... PLAYS, MUSIC MJD O T H E NTEP^TAINM EKTij WLLR. BY WEEK. MISS MADGE LESSING AT THE ALHAMBRA Miss Lessing is the pretty American who played the part of Beauty' at the last season's pantomime at Drury Lane. She opened at the Alhambra on Monday. This picture is by W. and D. Downey ...

... . Miss Alice Nielsen comes from distant Nashville, in the State of Tennessee. Her home-- for young as she is Miss Nielsen has built a home for herself-- lies still farther off than Tennessee on the Pacific slope, in sunny California. Out there Miss Nielsen is the owner of a cattle ranche, and when the hot days and sultry nights of an American summer are making themselves felt with added force ...

... H ow to Keep Kgyggj Your Playbills. Few hobbies in the shape of collecting are so inte- resting as the gentle art of grangerising. I wonder how many people as they pass through the National Por trait Gallery and look at the bust of the late lamented Rev. James Granger know why he is there and who he was. Mr. Granger began his life as the vicar of Shiplake, Oxfordshire, and in 1769 he published ...

... TeaL Shops oi\ the Stage and Off. THE BOND STREET TEA SHOP IN THE WILDERNESS AT ST. JAMES'S THEATRE It forms the first act of Mr. H. V. Esmond's charming play THE NEW TEA SHOP IN NEW BOND STREET The latest fashionable tea shop is called The Far East, but it is found in the Far West (New Bond Street). The maids are dressed as Japs. Both these pictures are by Mr. Alfred Ellis ...

... . Whilst being shown over a music-printing establishment the other day I inquired of the manager how many publishers he worked for, and was astonished to find that he printed for 250 firms. He informed me that a very large proportion of his work was song engraving and printing. To those who do not know how it is done the process is most interesting. A song is first engraved on pewter plates ...

... . By Garden G. Smith. Some years ago a question that used to agitate domestic circles profoundly at this season was, Where shall we go for the holidays? Paterfamilias wished to go in land, where he might wear old and comfort able clothes, get some fishing, shooting, or other sport, and smoke a pipe all day long. Very seldom did he have his way. Mater- familias always set her face against ...

... HENLEY REGATTA-- The SociaJ Side. IT V m-nnTTTT^ Ml n I K wr-> The house boats are always the most picturesque feature a.t Henley. The house boat in this picture is the Summerholm M IM. 111 I ■■mill --I The Ibis was one of the most prettily decorated of the house boats. The long line of house boats above the bridge, where the tra.ffic wa.s thickest The Hibernia is one of the standing ...

... V, -7 c U R iTe, N T in If the old triangular duel between Eton, Harrow and Winchester could be revived the task of the cricket prophet would be easier. Eton beat Winchester by a short head a couple of weeks back, but as there is no means of learning whether Harrow is as good, better, or worse than Winchester what Eton has done against Winchester gives no clue as to how the Light Blues are ...

... . Though this summer is not behaving itself as it should, and depressing skies and cold winds have kept everyone in a continual state of uncertainty as to whether it is summer or not, we shall in all probability be suddenly taken by surprise, and blue skies and a most intemperately hot sun will in a very short time be making everyone long for the country and the sea. When one thinks of the ...

... . St. James's Square, which was the genesis of the whole West-end, has been the home of the bluest blood in the land for a longer period than any other part of the metropolis. For instance, the Dukes of Nor folk have lived here since 1684. 1 ne square was created by Henry Jermyn, Earl of St. Albans, whose name is still com memorated by the neighbouring Jermyn Street and St. Albans Passage. ...

... 1 s If the old triangular duel between Eton, Harrow and Winchester could be revived the task of the cricket prophet would be easier. Eton beat Winchester by a short head a couple of weeks back, but as there is no means of learning whether Harrow is as good, better, or worse than Winchester what Eton has done against Winchester gives no clue as to how the Light Blues are likely to fare against ...

... GRANDDAUGHTER OF THE DUKE OF RICHMOND AND DAUGHTER OF LORD MARCH. SHE WAS BORN IN 1874 AND MARRIED LORD BRASSEY'S NEPHEW, MR. HENRY LEONARD BRASSEY IN 1894. SHE HAS TWO CHILDREN. CECIL AND GERARD LADY VIOLET MARY BRASSEY Lafayette ...