s was part
of the right Pottery touch. Minor characters were all brightly played, Miss
MIELE MAUND being particularly happy as a garrulous young girl in the first
flush of an engagement, who subsequently throws over her violent _fiance_
on the ground that "she could never marry a man who pushes people into
lakes." Even the _vieux jeu_ of the designing widow took on a certain
freshness in the robust bands of Miss ROSINA FILIPPI.

[Illustration: MODES FROM "THE POTTERIES."

What Mr. ARNOLD BENNETT'S ladies wear to-day Vienna wears to-morrow.

_Lilian Swetnam_ Miss MIELE MAUND.]

I am in the fortunate position of having yet to read Mr. ARNOLD BENNETT'S
novel, from which Mr. PRYCE'S comedy has been adapted, and am therefore
free to treat the play itself on what I take to be its merits. It may be
that the adapter assumed in us a little previous knowledge of the history
of _Helen's_ love affair, or that at least there was an obscurity about her
past that wanted clearing up by retrospective illumination; but that is my
only possible criticism; and I heartily congratulate the Vaudeville
management on having at last discovered a play that promises to reward
their enterprise.

Not suspecting that there would be a change of hours after the second
night, I arrived on the third night punctually at 8, to find that the
performance was announced to begin at 8.30. Punctually at that hour I
returned, to find that it did not commence till 9; that in the meantime I
was to assist at a song-and-talk recital of which no threat had been
published. My quarrel is not with Mr. FREDERIC NORTON who did it, though
his clever entertainment began with some songs about fishes and things that
might have warmed a Penny Readings' audience but left me bitterly cold. My
complaint is of a wasted hour and a bolted dinner. I mention it only to
prove that, whatever the provocation he has suffered, a Dramatic Critic is
incapable of prejudice.

O. S.

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Another Impending Apology.

"ALBANIA'S NEW RULER

HOW PRINCE WILLIAM WILL ENTER HIS KINGDOM.

+FOUR+"

_Westminster Gazette._

Looping the loop on all fours?

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"Shooting on the river Doe, in Kirkcudbrightshire, Colonel Kennaway,
Greenlaw, shot a fine specimen of the male gadwall, a comparatively
rare visitor."--_Glasgow Herald._

Col. KENNAWAY (_to deceased male gadwall_). "That