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hands, might have fallen very flat. In her hands it became easily the best thing in the play. Mammatt, however, as Edwin Latter, was not far behind. He seems to get better every year, and the scenes between 'him and Mrs. Latter were most interesting. Mrs. Tendall, as Sylvia Latter, made an excellent selfwilled daughter in spite of her rather badly written part. Mrs. Carruthers (Mrs. Davies) gave a presentation of an unpleasant character, G. E. Cutforth, as Sylvia's lover, Cutting, was just his bright, breezy self, and very convincing. Speed (C. F. Williams) the Egyptian who finally turned out to be the murderer, was excellently dramatic throughout, though his last speech might have been delivered with a little more force and emotion. Hart, played by M. J. Bennion, was a convincing and most odious detective. We several times would have been glad if he had turned out to be the criminal as we were intended to think, for a while he was. His assistants, Hanley and Bates,. (Burrows, and Yates) were fairly adequate, Hanley producing a great deal of mirth, and Essail Aissa (H. K. Newsum) adequately filled the part of the Egyptian servant. The two blue idols, made by Mr. Potter, were pleasantly weird. The School Orchestra, as usual, pro vided a pleasant background for the conversation in the intervals. Those who remember " If I were King " and " The Admirable Crichton " will surely agree with us in thinking this play was below their standard, while admitting the excellence of the acting and production.
FOOTBALL RETROSPECT. We started the season expecting to have a back division above the average, but with a certain amount of uncertainty about the forwards. As we only lost one match, and that by a try to Durham, it is obvious that the forwards more than justified themselves as no side can win unless they gain possession of the ball. On the whole they were a light pack but very quick on the ball, sound in defence, and were generally in the right position for scoring when one of the backs broke through ; they were always kept well together by the able leadership of C. L. Troop. The halves worked well together and J. B. D. Chapman at stand-off was always sound, often brilliant, although there
