... MISS ADA BLANCHE AS ROBINSON CRUSOE, AT DRURY LANE THEATRE. riiOM A PHOTOGRAPH BY ALFRED ELLIS, UPPER RAKER STREET, N.W, ...

... MISS LENA ASHWELL AS LIZA IN THE PIPER OF HAMELIN, AT THE COMEDY THEATRE. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY MESSRS. RUSSELL AND SONS, BAKER STREET, \Y. B ...

... In snug chambers near the Haymarket I found Mr. Probasco, the trainer and owner of the wonderful talking and calculat ing horse, the clever Australian, Mahomet, which is causing so much comment at the leading music-halls in London. I was received in the usual go-as-you-please, make-yourself-at-homs style that belongs solely to the produce of the tract across the pond. How long have you had ...

... the latest operatic triumph. TEN MINUTES WITH MADAME MELBA. It was in Milan. I had just arrived, and was very tired. Desiring nothing in the world but quiet and repose, I absolutely refused to accept the invitation of a friend to dine and meet a young composer about whom he raved, but of whom I had never heard. utuame JMelba smiled with a charmingly depreciative gesture as she egan her story ...

... A TRAVELLER AT HOME. A CHAT WITH DR. II. RAYNER, OF THE GRENADIER GUARDS. An Englishman, and more particularly an English sportsman, is just as much at home in an African jungle as he is in the rus in urbe of the Green Park, and there was nothing inappropriate in the fact that it was in the comfortable smoking-room of the Isthmian Club, Piccadilly, that I enjoyed a talk with Dr. Rayner about ...

... . This little lady is Miss Maggie Ford, who hails from Nottingham. The dainty little dancer she is just seven recently made a great hit in an operetta for children entitled Nell, written by Mrs. A. Lambert. As premiere danseiise of the tiny ballet, Miss Ford, a perfect picture in an amber-coloured concertina skirt and piquant gypsy oodjee, took her townsfolk by storm. Several charities have ...

... 1? AGING NOTES BY CAPTAIN COE. The chief actors in the Epsom drama this week are worthy a few remarks at my hands. First, then, the stewards of the meeting are the stewards of the Jockey Club for the time being and Lord Rosebery, who is a permanent steward of this meeting (as is Lord March of the Good- wood Meeting) by virtue of his being Lord of the Manor of Epsom. I could never quite see why ...

... . Of the plot of Cherry Hall a clear idea can be gained by describing it as a matter of innocent bigamy. Very dear and valuable to dramatists and novel-writers is the case of those who marry a second time in the wrongful belief that the first spouse is really dead. There are many possible variations: Jane Eyre and The Transgressor show one form; Enoch Arden is, perhaps, the most ...

... INTERVIEW WITH MR. MORTIMER MENPES. A CHAT A 13 OUT COLOUR. Mr. Menpes told me (writes a Sketch representative) that it was generally considered that he had been over-advertised, and that in this case an interview with himself was a mistake. He consented, however, that I should have an interview with his work, since that, he hopes, may be of interest to the public. ine pictures in question ...

... . Bottom The raging rocks With shivering shocks, Shall break the locks Of prison-gates Hermia Do you not jest Bottom Scratch my head, Peas-blossom. Quince Come, sit down, every mother' s son, and rehearse your parts. Pyramus, you begin when you have spoken your speech, enter into that brake and so every one according to his cue. Thisbe Tide life, tide death, I come without delay. Puck I '11 ...

... OUR WOMEN COMPOSERS. MISS LIZA LEHMANN. My first recollection of Miss Liza Lehmann is a little remote (writes a representative of The Sketch). I was at a concert given at the Grosvenor Gallery, and a pale, mystical girl, who might have crept out of a lovely picture by Burne- Jones that hung on the wall close to me, came on to the stage and sang Crepus cule, an exquisite song with the sim ...

... . And so the Opera Season is dead, and the band of singers that have filled so many gay hours are dispersed all Europe over, and the hand that brought them together lies impotentand cold. The new things of the season were confined entirely to the singers who have been introduced to London and to familiar singers who have appeared in new parts. For the most part the new singers have not been of ...