... THE Passing 'OF By Hannen Swaffer WELL, now Daly's has gone the way of all tradition. They offered £230,000 for it the other day for a talkie theatre! Humorists even said that Sam Isaacs wanted to buy it because It looked a very nice plaice! Daly's comic operas are dead, so much so that Harry Welchman, reviving an old one and trying to stage a new one, lost £8,000 in a few weeks, and then, ...

... THOMASINA A Study. By ^Muriel Hine A COOL breeze filtered through the trees where the river wound between reedy banks, a curved, grey line, on which, like beads, shadows were strung, inky-black. The aspens quivered in the wind, and Thomasina drew her cloak closer under her pointed chin, holding it there with a slender hand. When I was a tiny child, she mused, I used to think that all those ...

... 1 17 A DIAGNOSIS DE.THBONE.D jjtl 11 vi S JJ, BY DELL LEIGH }_jj ^2-^ s££s m i _ i.__ r jVQS JIM, dear, I do beg of you to have advice, proper advice, about your condition. There may be nothing really wrong, but after what Dr. Hunter told you, and told me, it's positively wicked of you to ignore it, it is, really. She leant on the edge of the mantelpiece and gazed down at her husband with ...

... The Waster's Adieu Still anxiously awaited by John Bull) After Scolt A cheery lot was mine, old bean, A cheery lot was mine, When spending was a mere routine And no one dared to whine. The Rates shot up, the Income-Tax Went soaring in' the blue, To find the money (sacks and sacks) I daily spent for you, Dear John, I gaily spent for You The time has come when we must part- Economists all say ...

... ft BY DELL LEIGH j| To say that Robin Archer was bored would be to dally idly with a word. He stood rather aimlessly at the bottom of Shaftesbury Avenue, wondering whether the old bores had left the club yet. He was £30 down on the day. H m What about getting some of it back, if not all Sussex Place was a deuce of a walk a night like this and as for the buses Still, there would be all known ...

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... If*! .^ THE ink on the new deeds of Mutimer's Farm was hardly dry when Mr. Denis Rycroft presented himself at the gate. He had driven the six miles from the station in old Griffiths' dog-cart, and he was visibly annoyed when I explained that the Mutimers had migrated en mass 3 to New Zealand. 1 was given to understand, ne insisted, that one could obtain rooms here. There are several rooms ...

... By DAVID SHARP THERE'S no help for it, said William, gazing gloomily into the fire, we shall have to get married. Has it come to that? she asked. Must we really We must, he said, sadly but firmly. We haye been together on the golf links every day for over a week now we have been round as often as three times in one day. People are beginning to Talk. I don't think we ought to expect ...

... BY -jppv^ f\\ 1 ARTHUR MILLS fffl L if '4iJ i Xj-inSfo1 irr&tc&Aj-'i. Extract from the Rules of Polo. In the case of a 1 player being disabled by a foul Penalty 8 may be exacted by the side that has I been fouled. THE two teams left in the final of the All- Comers' Polo Tournament were the Spears and the Royal Rutland shire Rifles. Special interest attached to the match, as the Spears ...

... SPI THE WITCHING HOUR. M (1 i m chedley BARKER.^ CUPID is dead. Long live the Lady Atropos! In the conservatory of the Milan, the speaker, a young man of the exquisite, about- town type, adjusted his monocle, and carried to his lips, with studied elegance, a whisky-and-soda. The fat, morose man to whom the words were addressed reached out a podgy hand for his glass, and tasted, without ...

... ONE MANS MEAT* i A HUNTING STORY J 0|p ISf ARTHUR MILLS-- Jgf CAPTAIN JAMES SLAPTON, late of His Majesty's Dragoons, walked thoughtfully down Leamington High Street, wonder ing how a gentleman whose income, consisting of half-pay and wound pension, amounted to some £30 a month, was to enjoy a season's fox-hunting. Force of habit led him to turn his steps into the yard of Mr. Joseph Pecker, ...

... ra f GOLFITIS A POT-POURRI OF GOLF 3 I°1 Air Pack up your Troubles in your Old Kit-Bag. Pack up your troubles in your old golf bag and play, play, play. The sun is shining and the sky is blue, It's a golfer's day. What's the use of worrying, you'll never play to scratch Go and play with freedom and without a care, you'll win your match. Air Click, click, I'm a Monkey on a Stick Geisha Cleek, ...