... Being, the lucubrations of your most obedient scribe, Mr. Gordon Beckles THERE was talk of getting away for some fresh air for the week-end, possibly to a selected spot high on the Chilterns, with the Sussex Downs running a close second. The land of the Chilterns has always seemed to me the wildest stretch of country near London, perhaps because of its lofty remoteness. Although there are ...

... fiW Mirucv M^nchtnuri TO call Yvonne Printemps and Pierre Fresnay in The Paris Waltz (Rialto) older and wiser than any of the other characters in the week's films is a compliment not intended as back-handed. Certainly Madame Printemps no longer looks exactly like the boy Mozart who capti vated London and Paris twenty-three years ago in Sacha Guitry's tender little play with music by Reynaldo ...

... SOME PORTRAITS IN PRINT Beina the lucubrations of your most obedient scribe, Mr. Gordon Beckles THE London club became in the nineteenth century a symbol of a society in which man was the happy dictator. The club was a place sacred to man. It was a refuge first from thoughts of domesticity, and then, as the years passed, from invading woman herself. Viewing the landscape between Pall Mall and ...

... ($0^ fl _ brZ /h\ (o\ POKTKAITS nfrMK Beware of I lie Bog WHEN I first went to live in the town it was a smallish place sleeping (most of the time) under a rarely failing sun that had that somnolent warmth you also find in the back curve of a child's neck-- it smelt of golden motes that danced in purest light and sang a wordless song of purest happiness before vanishing to a purest heaven. On ...

... THE YOUNG ENTR Y SHOWS PROMISE HINTING NOTES Holiday meets of the Lincolnshire packs proved as popular as ever, and in glorious weather exceptionally large crowds attended the traditional trysts. The same can be said of the Hunt pony club fixtures, an equally attractive feature of the countryside. At these holiday meets the mounted field mainly consisted of young foxhunters, who have shown ...

... t a 1>. It. Wjlidham Lewis Giving the girls reasonable time to get their hair done and their stockings up, Auntie Times has thoughtfully announced, six months in advance, that the Liberal Summer School will be held next August, at Oxford. Thus glamour rules to-day as in the 1880's, when Oscar Wilde revealed that all-too-brief glimpse of a typical Liberal Summer School as Giorgione painted it. ...

... ALFRED HITCH COCK'S produc tion of Dial M for Murder breaks every canon of the motion picture. It rarely moves outside the one set-- the living room of a flat --which contained the stage play. There are long sessions of dialogue which be long rather to the stage or TV screen, and the action is practically motion less. Yet it makes an excellent, entertaining film. The only use Hitchcock makes ...

... Dim OF A LADY OF LIMITED LEISURE STILL struggling with husband's new diet. It shouldn't be a struggle, really, seeing that chief ingredients of diet are simple, ordinary food. Snag is that due to highbrow education about cookery, dislike simple, ordin ary food and tend to make household's favourites consist of things stuffed with rice, fried in butter or olive oil, heavily garnished with ...

... by HELEN BURKE AT THIS TIME OF THE YEAR I GET a number of letters from people about to go on a raw vegetable diet-- a kind of spring-clean of the blood as one reader wrote. Fortunately, the vegetables and fruits of late winter and early spring are excellent for such diets. Cabbages Savoy, Dutch white and red make a good foundation for as many different combinations as one can think up. Other ...

... The Dream of the Golfer who forgot his a day IS GOOD FOR YOU ...

... PICTORIAL POLITICS. The End Approaches. T t is a matter of some difficulty to prognosticate the date of the demise of the present Socialist Government. Its life may be prolonged by the nervous attentions of the Liberal Party, who have no desire, according to The Westminster Gazette, to go to the polls and see the Labour Party weakened to the profit of Conservatism. It may be that Mr. ...

... PETROL VAPOUR By W. G. ASTON. Too Much Economy IF this year there is not quite such an atmosphere of gaiety and abandon about the Motor Show, there is no doubt plenty of reason for that state of affairs. For one thing it is only a few days since the Income Tax assessments arrived to decorate the breakfast table, and it takes some little time for most of us to recover from the smack in the eye ...