... slight import ance. Everybody knows that our staff officers, in spite of being ridiculed in the music-halls and pilloried by war correspondents, will be neither the better nor worse for the deprivation of their red tabs. The best type of staff officer, ...

... we might think, if we believed our journalists, that we were on the brink of a ruinous war. Only we are used to our journalists, and don't. 'Phe game of imaginary war goes on briskly between Great Britain and Germany, which have never had a real fight ...

... etceteras that count. Everything progresses, or at any rate changes, ex cept the poor old plot which usually stays in the pre-war formula of George Edwardes. Jack o' Diamonds, now at the Gaiety, trots out again a musical comedy old-timer that can no longer ...

... of the fields. It you listened caretully, it you caugnt your breath and cocked your head, you could hear the grumblings of war, far off, but per sistent. John Brunt walked on. Through the village, past the barns, by the oast-houses. A train chuffed over ...

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... shouldn't quite forget, all the time, about the war and what war really means. A letter I've just had from East Africa asking, Are we quite forgotten out here, Eve reminds me to tell you that the book of the war in that unspeakable country is Captain Francis ...

... import a little method into their proceedings. C urely the Labour leaders must have contemplated some dreadful step in South Africa South Africans are not easily moved. Look at the M.C.C. They have frequently given offence during their tour, yet General ...

... scratched out two others and was barred henceforth. Big game never came his way, or he would undoubtedly have depopulated Africa of its fauna a century before its time. Regency racing circles deemed the Squire sharp, and Lord George Bentinck accused ...

... so passionately loyal to his country that, during a rubber of bridge he invariably declares, Shamrocks instead of clubs. A WAR-TIME Army officer met his ex- batman after eleven years. The one time soldier servant looked prosperous and said that he had ...

... whites from perdition, one can't help thinking, too late. Fish When Professor Smith, of Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, burst into tears the other day at the sight of a large fish, of a species believed extinct for 50,000,008 years, the Press ...

... helped his music but is anathema to the high-powered Puritan- apers who are making such a bid to impose themselves on post-war Britain. While on musicians, isn't it a shame that the right sort of uplift does not emanate from Franz Liszt? All his friends ...

... blonde, mysterious, feline, and sphinx-like, the Comtesse de Comminges, who has returned from her journeyings in Africa at last and from her war work at Gerardmer. You would like the Recamier, old Uncle Gphere have been quite lots of generates this week, ...