trace bim when he is a hundred General Vendrikh has at last broken The other two West-End pantomimes ails or sore may before daybreak. are " Aladdin " the Adelphi and It seems, according to one v silence with regard to his great scheme for having the perséanel of the Russian "Robinson Crusoe the Lyceum sion of the story, that conversation and the critics are unanimous in their turned upon this point recently at Chol-rai med into what he calls "an praise of both. Of course neither has castle, and that the Marexpl ion corps," subject to military discipline and governed by a special spent anything like the sum in the pro-ques of Cholmondeley plumed himself department, Speaking to the corres-duction of its pantomime that Old on being vately protected against pondent of " Moscow paper, he says Drury can afford to lavish; but for burglars. To prove him wrong some genuine fan and prettiness and ex-members of the Duke of Westminster's that the Rassian railways spend R. 3,000,000 yearly on guards, but cell once of cast due gathers that it house-party at Eaton Hall motored that will be saved when all the em-would be difficult to choose between the to the castle in the small hours of ployees wre themselves armed soldiers. three, though the palm would probably Boxing Day, broke into the building The strict discipline introduced will also be given 10 one or other of the minor and carried off " silver cup and some with "the incredible cor theatres. In addition to these three cigars. Unfortuoaely in their hurry which prevails; the strategic and the Crystal Palace, some fifteen or to get away, they ran their car agai railways, now run at a lose, will cover 1a score of suburban theatres are playing a gateway and damaged it so consider-their expenses, the men will be useful pantomimes, And then there are the ably that bits left behind woald have when war comes in running trains on Christmas plays. There are no new led to the identification of the car it year; Mr. Barrie's the enemy's lines, in laying new the jokers had not already owned up. strategic lines, etc. Besides, the system ing " Peter Pan," which like its They mast indeed have narrowly es-will tarn out energetic, well-disciplined hero, seems as though it would never caped a serious catastrophe. men with a strong sense of duty and grow old, has come up for the fourth in succession, and "Alice in
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