Mr. ERNEST HENDRIE, who was translated from an organ-grinder to a maker of faces, played very soundly, but seemed to me a little too deliberate and conscious in his speech.  I found a more moving appeal in the slight pathetic sketch of an old faithful butler by Mr. GEORGE MALLETT.  Mr. FEWLASS LLEWELLYN might easily, with a little assistance from the author, have extracted a lot more fun from his Plumber.  Mr. MALCOLM CHERRY had a simple and popular part as the good Doctor.  Miss HELEN HAYE’S cleverness was wasted on the character of a sinuous governess.  Miss EVELYN WEEDEN did all that was asked of the mother in both worlds—­the world of fancy and the world of fact.  But, to speak truth, there was little attraction in the performance apart from the personality of Miss STEPHANIE BELL in the title role.  If the play is to succeed—­and its hope lies in the good temper and high spirits of holiday time—­the author will owe most to the natural charm of this delightful young lady, who played throughout with a most engaging sincerity and ease.

O.S.

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[Illustration:  WITH THE “TELL-TALE FOREST” HUNT.

The Hobby Rider (Mr. CHERRY) takes the temperature of The Poor Little Rich Girl (Miss STEPHANIE BELL).

The hound is Mr. ERNEST HENDRIE (The Man who makes Faces), well-known as The Dog in The Blue Bird.]

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“After fifty years of good conduct in the Ancona Penitentiary, the life sentence of Giacomo Casale has been remitted by King Victor Emmanuel.  Casale’s astonishment at the altered world in which he found himself on coming out of prison was unbounded.  He immediately”—­Daily Express.

Unfortunately our contemporary stops there, and leaves us all in an agony of doubt.  Our own view is that CASALE bought the Mimosa Edition of a certain rival journal, and that the Editor of The Express only just censored the paragraph in time.

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“The wireless station at Kamina, in Togo, German West Africa, has received a number of wireless telegrams from the station at Naten, a distance of 3,348 miles.  The Kamina station will not be able to reply until its new plant, which is being set up with the utmost speed, has been completed.”—­Reuter.

Indeed, the opinion is held by some that it would be quicker to reply by post.

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    “The prison buildings themselves are separated from this
    wall by a yard measuring twenty-five years across.”—­Daily
    Dispatch.

Of course a yard ought to measure thirty-six inches.

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[Illustration:  English Horse Dealer (to Irish horse dealer from whom he is buying a horse). “HOW’S HE BRED?”