... Tjhe Bee in the Bonnet AM AUTO-CAUSERIE. By Gerald! Biss. MY DEAR TATLER, Galling as it is to all nobility of sentiment and aesthetic conception, it is being borne in upon me more and more daily what a belly-ridden nation we are, though perhaps no worse than any other, to be fair to ourselves in fact, that King Tum-tum is the World's Controller. Only yesterday I was talking to a friend holding ...

... OUR TENBilS LITTER TVTy Dear Tatler, This week's lawn tennis has still been rather under the weather, so to speak, and those sensible competitors who selected the Welsh Covered Court Championships as their choice would seem to have done wisely. Although the Craigside meeting is not of necessity a very large one (they have only two covered courts, remember), it is one which never fails to ...

... Dear Sir, In your issue dated December 25th, 1946, your contributor, Beaumont Kent, in his item, Back stage, mentions that Lyndon Brook 44 recently dis tinguished himself in the Footlights (sic) production of Gorki's The Lower Depths Lyndon Brook did distinguish himself in no mean manner in this play, but it was presented by this Club and not by the Footlights. Mr. Brook, besides being one of ...

... Tjhe Bee in. the B eh in ft AM AUTO-CAUSERIE. By Gersvldl B MY DEAR TATLER-- Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the street of Berkeley, that the other day I had the now rare adventure of being upon the road in an automobile! I felt so guilty, but looked as though butter wouldn't melt in my cylinders, though it was all fair and above board, the petrol fully licensed and the car one of ...

... I thought your wife's name was Elizabeth So it is. Then why do you call her Short for Pegasy. What has that to do with it Why, Pegasa is feminine for Pegasus. Well W ell, Pegasus is an immortal steed. What of that Sh Not so loud. She's in the next room. You see an immortal steed is an everlasting nag, and there vou are.- -1. S. Williams, IS, Durham Road, Newport, Mon. ...

... One day Pat and his friend, Murphy, were walking a'ong a country road skirted by a wall built up with loose cobblestones put one on top of the other. They had not gone far when down came a portion of the wall on top of them. Have mercy upon us, cried Murphy. Shut up you fool, said Pat; haven't we got enough upon us --Arthur Livesey, 7, Newstead Road, Liverpool. ...

... Tlhe Bee in the Boniniet AM AUTO-CAUSERIE. By Gerald Biss. MY DEAR TATLER, Things are indeed coming to a pretty pass, as the Victorians used to say, when acquisitive Sir Alfred Tout-le-Mond cannot keep his itching claws off the British Museum, and actually proposes to turn the dear old Mummeries into the latest neo-martial Minx-ery in order to celebrate the birth of the Air Board after much ...

... Tlhe Bee in tine Bonirnet AM AUTO -CAUSER IE. By Geraldl Bis. MY DEAR TATLER, Papers really ought to be all stop press news in these Ugo Biondi days like the ha'penny evening sheets which once upon a time battened on racing and now piously disown it in its Cinderella days. As it is, the bally old orders have hardly left the dark rooms of their various controllers before they change, giving ...

... THe Be in the Bonimet AH AUTO-CAUSER.EE. By Getrald Biss. MY DEAR TATLER, With the Hunter chasing chaste Diana nightly, to the vast encouragement of Hunnish malpractices, it behoves me as far as I can see to antedate my letters to you at such seasons, even more than ordinarily necessary, as Zodiacal Zepps and giddy Gothas, when they turn up, play such Hades with our postal arrange ments, to my ...

... UM. TEMNES EETTEH. j\/J Y Dear Tatler, This week's wonderful weather has made the huge Eastbourne meeting a very pleasant one, and there has been an almost record attendance during the final stages of the week. There were plenty of surprises, particularly in the men's events, and it was certainly a very unforeseen occurrence that Sleem, Andrews, Nigel Sharpe, and Olliffe should all be outed ...

... OUR TRMBOS LETTER. jY'J Y Dear Tatler, It seems an amazing thing that one should be still writing about the French Hard-court Championships, but as the finals of the singles (which after all are the most interesting events of the whole meeting) are being played this afternoon, it is very necessary that I should speak of them, more especially as one of the finalists is that very brilliant young ...

... OUM. TEMNIS LETTER. TV/T Y Dear Tatler, Although the grass court season has not yet started, there has been a great deal of interesting lawn tennis played this last week in England, and the first round of the Davis Cup against the Argentine team at Torquay provided us with more than the usual amount of thrills. It is true that Great Britain eventually won by the comfortable margin of four ...