... PICTORIAL, POLITICS. An Impressive Memorial. THE King's suggestion as to the best way the nation could celebrate the anniversary of the signing of the Armistice was a wonderful in spiration which emanated fitly from our ruling house. For two minutes yesterday there was a complete cessation of work, sound, and locomotion, and no one who was in this busy metropolis will forget the impressiveness ...

... PICTORIAL POLITICS. Publicity, Please. A gain the country is threatened by the appalling menace of a coal strike. The claim of the miners of an increase of 3s. per day in wages has been refused by the Government, and the Government's offer of Is. 6d. per day rejected by the delegates of the Miners' Federation. The issue is now in front of the men for balloting purposes, and if two-thirds of ...

... Pictorial Politics. The New Year. THE bad old year and the bad old war are over, and though one faces the New Year with confidence and optimism, it would be foolish to underrate the difficulties, if not dangers, which are bound to arise during this all important crisis. First of all there are the difficulties and anxieties of the Peace Conference, though as to that we believe that the Allies, ...

... Tjh Passlini|| 83 IBefttl^ Da^Ss, aft ftlhe ILonadloim M i p p> dl 2° ana At the London Hippodrome. HOW producers of revues must long for that impossible thing, a concertina proscenium. For if the stage be a very large one, dramatic sketches seem like watching something happening at the wrong end of a telescope, and a singer, singing all alone on an empty stage rather like the only one ...

... A Lawn Tennis Log. The French Championships Borotra returns to the lists and unhorses the holder Til den's new hook and its praise of the French game. >c5y A .W. M. THE French championships lasted fifteen days, but that was not the fault of the weather, which was consistently kind. On the thirteenth day, the executive drew up a centre court programme which under estimated the length of matches ...

... IT was a trivial little thing, a black chiffon nightdress. Alicia Christie, a Chelsea woman comfortably off, stole it from a shop counter, and there seemed to be no earthly reason for her folly until a psychiatrist found one in a complex family relationship. What happened to the woman next, and why? There, briefly, is the pith of Lesley Storm's drama at the West- mit ster, with the problem ...

... CITY NOTES. OUR STROLLER IN THROGMORTON STREET. VERY sorry, but I 'm too busy to bother,' and the broker backed into his room, leaving the insurance agent stranded in the outer office. It 's my own fault, he admitted. In a rash moment, I filled up a post card, and now the company won't give me a moment's peace. You re already insured, of course? Not enough. If I were to die in a hurry, ...

... GILBERT SULLIVAN OPERAS A NEW PICTORIAL RECORD OF The Most Beautiful ever Produced Produced entirely in Photogravure, and published by The SPHERE, 346, Strand, London, W.C.2, this pictorial record contains over seventy photographs of scenes in the various Operas. ORDER YOUR COPY NOW THE EDITION IS LIMITED. The photographs opposite are typical of the excellence of the production, which is pre ...

... CITY NOTES. OUR STROLLER IN THROGMORTON STREET. WHAT, you? I thought you'd gone away, missin' the merry grouse or ticklin' the cold blooded trout. Buildin' the sandy castle or kickin' the playful bucket is more in my line. I leave the extravagances to you and your friends in Throgmorton Street. Give me the luxuries of life, said The Broker, and you can have all the necessities. Eh, ...

... CITY NOTES. FINANCE IN A FIRST-CLASS CARRIAGE. SEND the United States a couple of million copies of The Sketch every week, and thereby reduce the War Debt, The Engineer was proposing. America professes to be open to receive pay ment in kind, and, well, here's a practical way of doing it. In kind Where does the kindness come in, if you 're That sounds all right, said The Broker, but follow ...

... Near Ivangorod BY THE BYSTANDER IN POLAND i WHILE a thousand guns are thun dering near Warsaw, I write this in peace ful Novo-Alexandriya, near Ivangorod Fortress. I came here not to avoid Warsaw's thundering guns, but its thunder ing lies. Warsaw is full of citizens who buttonhole you with Have you heard the latest? and after this invariably comes the alarmist whopper that Hindenburg has ...

... . A well studed page from our artist's sketch book, which includes a number of celebrated sportsmen. Lord Wavertree wao formerly Colonel Hall-Walker, who temporarily adopted the title of Lord Osmaston CARICATURED BY FRED MAY ...