... AVIARY: AO. Hi EMMWOOD'S ADULT MALE: General colour above, ruddy- fulvous, inclined to be spikily crested beak bulbous and roseate, becomes extremely roseate when caught in a chimney mandibles blue. The lower mandibles are feathered with, often untidy, beardlike growths. Wing coverts red, white and woolly at extremities thighs and rump feathers red legs tufted at the knee-joints, leathery feet ...

... -r ft wre beard THE Christmas Handicap; Oratory Stakes; run in Dublin, at the Annual Dinner of the Insurance Institute of Ireland; First Prize to the Minister of Industry and Com merce, for saying: I foresee, on the assump tion that international conditions are favour able, developments of great significance. There are hundreds of new industrial projects listed in the Department of Industry ...

... knights are cold The custom's old To serve a cheering cup Of welcome BOVRIL to your. guests And (beefly) warm them up. ...

... 1 with I. Bicherstaff IT's all very well you saying that we should have complained to the head waiter, but we can never make out which one he is. This, from a letter from Cambridge, in answer to some recent advice to younger diners-out. So here is the course plotted across a West End restaurant and re- member, the waiters are all members of a club who stand to benefit from pleasing you. ...

... D. B. Wyndliam Lewis MY Cyclops, my bow- wow, wrote that emotional girl Catherine the Great-- known to her many friends and admirers as Little Mother (Matushka)-- to her adored boy-friend Potemkin, who beat her so enjoyably. After Bow-Wow's death, Little Mother gave a gorgeous, present to a St. peters-burg monastery in his memory. It was lately on view at the Antique Dealers' Fair at Gros- ...

... AGATHA Christie, whose The Mousetrap will become the Ambassadors' longest run in a month's time, has written a new play to be called Witness for the Prosecution. This authoress has her own especial formula for success, but this time she is using an estab lished recipe-- a trial scene at the Old Bailey. A trio of magnificent old-timers form the protagonists. D. D. Clarke-Smith will be the ...

... i D. B. Wyndham Lewis THAT recent announcement by a Gas Council spokesman (vide Press) that the 15,000,000 in Great Britain who shave daily remove 25,000 hairs apiece from an average shaving-surface of 48 square inches undoubtedly comes under the heading of Useful Information. But such surprise-items make the populace any That is surely the test. A hap we know experimented in this ...

... Sabretache That north side of the country was a dream for a ride, and carried a grand scent, it is the bit wedged in between the Warwickshire and the Pytchiey IF we of the weekly illustrated Press only had the courage, the futuristic handicap, under which we are condemned to labour, would hold no terrors for us. As things are, we are com pelled to write about such trivial things as the Lincoln ...

... P. B. Wpidham Lewis UNLIKE Napoleon, who found time to re organise the Opéra during his 1812 cam paign, Field-Marshal Errol Flynn, who conquered Burma some time ago in that ever memorable rush of gorgeous Technicolor, seems to have done nothing about reorganising Bur mese exports. Hence, owing to lack of essential teak, that current depression in the British sailing-boatbuilding industry ...

... t f ii n J a 11 s the veliesl styles i corsets, girdles d corselettes (to say nothing of Ihose scarce still, best of all brassieres, Gothic) come to you as w /m\ my* foundations ...

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... with I. fficherstaffe ONE of the shortages from which we in this country have never suffered at table-- but which on the Continent led to smuggling and Black Marketing-- has been in the coffee-cup. Alas that we should not have celebrated our fortune by a promise to mend our ways. One of the obvious reasons why we have had plenty of coffee is that too little of it goes into the cup indeed, into ...