THE LONDON ENSEMBLE QUINTET
GWEN E. JEAFFRESON (Mezzo-Soprano)

from the Savoy Hotel

MARBLE ARCH PAVILION ORCHESTRA
From the Marble Arch Pavilion

(Picture on page 256.)

THE French Riviera, which Mr. Holt Marvell described in last Tuesday's talk, is well known as a holiday resort, and so is Brittany, with which Miss Maxse will deal next week. Today Mr. Branch Johnson will talk about a part of France less known than it deserves to be -the border-land where France and Germany meet, where the historic towns of Strasbourg and Colmar look down on the broad waters of the Rhine. He himself knows Alsace well, and he is an expert on the folk-lore of the French countryside.

BEGGARS AND BANDITS
(Beware of Pickpockets !)
The Company will include :
'Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,'
'King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid,'
' The Jolly Beggar,' and ' The Highwayman ' (
Archibald Marshall ) and the proceedings will proceed to the strains of ' The Beggar's Opera' (Gay) and ' The
Vagabond King ' (Friml) played by THE OLOF SEXTET

BRAHMS' VIOLIN and PIANO
SONATAS
Played by WILLIAM PRIMROSE (Violin) and VICTOR HELYHUTCHINSON -
(Pianoforte)
Sonata in G (Op. 78), Second
Movement

DAVID Wise (Violin); FRANK ALMGILL (Flute); CHARLES DRAPER (Clarinet); EDWARD J. ROBIN
SON (Violoncello); SIDONIE GOOSSENS (Harp)

Last week, in the second of his series of talks on 'Modern Transport,' Mr. Stephenson dealt with the way in which railways are constructed and their costs of operation, referring also to the supervisory control over railway construction exercised by the State. Tonight he will go on to consider rates and fares and the means by which they are fixed; a subject in which State control bulks more than ever large.

Act II
From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

by MARGUERITE WIT
Six Preludes

:
JAY WHIDDEN'S BAND from the Carlton Hotel