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... HORS D'CEUVRES. JVar ill Words of One Syllable The Simple Russian The So-called Vomers Hints on Committing Suicide Peaceful War On Business Principles THE Chinese are said to be sorry they invented gunpowder. Yet war with them is simple and straightforward. No wounded, no truces, no hospital scandals (there being no necessity for hospitals), no unseemly wrangling about explosive bullets, white ...
... I JOHN WALKER SONS, LTD., JOHN WALKER SONS, Ltd., Born 1820 still going strong I Johnnie Walker 'There's a silver lining to every cloud. Weary Route Marcher: It's the gold lining on one of your bottle labels I'd prefer to see just now. Scotch Whisky Distillers, KILMARNOCK, Scotland. ...
... PHRYNE T TE'.5**LE T T Eft FROM LONDON A DRY ROT, AND OTHER NONSENSE. BY MARTHE TROLY-CURTIN. (AuPior of PhrynetU and London and PhrynetU Married.) THIS is not a dissertation on mildew, phylloxera, and other blights of the vine which go to make a mauvaise année, as the wine-growers say in my country. This sort of rot is what that delicious dégustatrice Delysia calls insanity, and the dry ...
... DANCING DAYS .,-%5AND#- NIGHTS ^f7sT J'' -H£ By PHYLLIS MONKMAN. THE Albert Hall, that tremendous building Kensington way, is surely enjoying the season of its life. What with concerts, meetings, and balls, the huge hall will have accommodated millions of pleasure-seekers before the end of July. Which is as it should be. The Venice Ball, one of the most picturesque functions that ever ...
... vOGUES^ AND VANITIES; j K feRMENy (ocKAymJ&t Cutting Them Down. Though women have unanimously decided not to down stockings, it's not to be supposed that they are ashamed of what stockings are supposed-- quite incorrectly in an age of artificial silk-- to hide. We are not credited, as a race, with much imagination. Fashion, if she is to be judged by her works, takes the same view. Sleeves ...
... T> EBENHAM FREEBODY (DEBENHAMS Ltd.) T> EBENHAM FREEBODY DEBENHAMS Ltd.) EXCLUSIVE MODEL TURBAN AND SCARF of black silk velvet ends of scarf stitched with black silk and finished with monkey fringe lined with mixed coloured wool em broidery. The Turban trimmed to correspond. Wigmore Street Cavendish Square London W. ...
... Harvey Nichols Co., Ltd Harvey Nichols Co., Ltd., miss, so write now, to Yo U'LL find de scriptions of this organdie Ascot frock, the Agnes model hat, and the satin lined gloves, just inside the cover of Fashions. The season's number of Fashions Harvey Nichols' famous new magazine has just been published, and you're advised to write as soon as you can for your free copy You'll enjoy the ...
... CITY NOTES. OUR STROLLER IN THROGMORTON STREET. AND a not uncommon complaint, either. But still, there's plenty of time yet. Speak ing for myself, I like a plump partridge or a well filled pheasant better than a grouse. Don't you? Give him fish and chips, if you want to see him really happy. No, but you don't understand, protested the broker. My tenderest feelings are outraged when I find ...
... . By X. MARCEL BOULESTIN. WE have had the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and a great many more ages. Now we live in an age which can reasonably be called the age of noise, speed and in efficiency. So this is a plea for leisure. Are we civilised people or not What inspires these philosophical re marks is the fact that I had a week-end in Brighton that very week-end when over a hun dred old cars ...
... . Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage for 1939 is now on sale, at the usual price of 105s. net. This im pressive work, famous for the extent and the accuracy of the information it provides on the subject of the noble families of England and their collateral descendants, has a wider circle of readers than would be generally supposed. In the preface, the Editor, Mr. C. F. ...
... LOOKING at the new Disney cartoon, Fun and Fancy Free (New Gallery), I felt tempted to adapt Browning:-- What 's become of Disney Since he gave us all the slip? This is not the Disney of Snow White and Pinocchio, of Bambi and Fantasia. This is a rather slapdash double, who has kept on turning up lately in exchange for the old Walt the faulty operator who perpetrated Victory Through Air ...