... 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 ...

... It seems a pity that London always just fails to make the best of itself. Consider the parks, an asset possessed by no other capital in Europe. It seemed a good idea to put up a couple of restaurants and bars in Hyde Park, and the one at the Albert Hall end of the Serpentine is probably one of the most exciting modern buildings around. It has a beautiful terrace, overlooks the water, has ...

... Many artists blame the critics when their shows take a ham mering in the newspapers and subsequently fold. In the case of Ad-Lib, in which Larry Adler and I recently appeared at the Fortune Theatre, criti cal acclaim was kind and flat tering. Yet the show closed after a brief run. Just for once no one could heap castigation upon the Press. The reason for the clos ure to my mind was the ...

... as a Keen cmemagoer, l am appalled at the amount of time taken up in the sale of ice cream and the showing of advertisements. There is no denying that these two items represent an enormous re venue to cinema owners, but surely they are beginning to take diabolical liberties you can take it from me that very often the film you have paid to see has been cut so that this ritual can be ...

... What has happened to that crispy bacon we used to get before the war? Apart from flavour, today's bacon does not seem to have the same ten dency to curl into pleasing shapes. What is the reason for this? Is it the alloys used in the manufacture of modern frying pans? Or, more likely, is it that British pigs have become indifferent? I find it rather sinister that they should take this I don't ...

... 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 ...

... When so much of Delius's music is still comparatively little known it is all the more regrettable that a few weeks from now will occur one of those maddening duplications in the calendar of London's musical life. I refer to the Royal Academy of Music's Choral Concert at West minster Abbey on Thursday, 1 December an important event. By a singular mis chance, on the very same evening, at the ...

... I saw the portrait of the beautiful girl on the cover of your last issue, and the two covers before that of beautiful English women. I ask you now for the real London life. Is it possible in your future issues and on your covers to contain some of the things that always attract me about London life the beautiful dawns, and sun sets, the faces of the beautiful old women and men, or the strange ...

... I was at the Tate Gallery last weekend and was desperate to make an urgent telephone call. On asking where the public telephone was in the gallery I was told that they were very sorry but it was out of order. It was suggested that I should try the inquiry office where the tele phone was apparently more accessible. At the inquiry office I was told: Sorry, you can not use the phone because it ...

... John McLeod criticised the drinking habits of my fellow Australians London Life, 16 April). Not only have you Britons been doing most things, including drinking, so much longer than Australians, but also I would respectfully suggest that some of you may have been generalising and ex aggerating so much longer. John McLeod really should travel overseas one day and notice just how an unfortunate ...

... Having returned quite re cently from abroad, I am more convinced than ever that Lon doners can be the world's most abrupt and unco-opera- tive people when it comes to helping overseas visitors with their casual inquiries. A ques tion asked in halting English usually brings a look of irri tation, followed by an imperti nent wave of the arm in an indefinable direction, with the instructions ...

... How long will it take this Government to legislate on umbrellas? With the wetter seasons fast approaching, it is surely time a question was asked in the House concerning the necessity for a Test to be followed by a Licence per mitting the use of the common gamp. Of normal height, I have suffered many times from hit-and-run carriers. Mis placed eyes, lacerated skull and torn ear lobes have left ...