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ISS LILY HANBURY, with whose appearance as Lady Windermere most playgoers are by this time familiar, and to whom we are here indebted for a charming page of portraits, was born in London, and made her first appearance when she was fifteen years old in Mr. W. S. Gilbert's "Pygmalion and Galatea," in which she played Myrine. Her next engagement was with Mr. Thomas Thorne, in 1889, with whom she stayed until the autumn of 1890, playing in all his productions at the Vaudeville. She then went on tour with him for six weeks, after which she joined Mr. Wilson Barrett for his season at the Olympic, during which period she played eight or nine parts. She then went to Terry's Theatre for a summer season, and played in the triple bill Mrs. Hemmersley in Mr. Weedon Grossmith's comedietta "A Commission." Then she went for a short tour with Mr. George Alexander, returning with him to the St. James's Theatre last autumn,