... semi-marine village or hamlet of Southend and an amusing sidelight on Wey mouth, with George III crack ing lewd jokes in a bathing- machine. Behind the footlights Mrs. Siddons was braving the necessities of retirement in the face of the challenge of new stars ...

... reconcile his conscience when he finds him self involved in the panic atten dant upon the fall of France. Being bombed and machine- gunned up and down the refugee- blocked roads of France, he meets an old friend of his gun-running days. Chapman, who turns ...

... The biplane is based on the Farman and Sommer machines, and has many interesting features. It is engined by a Huntber motor and the fabric has been sup plied by the North British Rubber Company. The machine looks a most creditable production and is very ...

... peace-time institution the Civil Service is to be admired and respected on many counts; but that in a war the bureau cratic machine is supposed to creak and groan and not stand up too well or too willingly to the administrative shocks which swift improvisation ...

... dling, while a special team, called the Plaza- ii (and Bathing) Girls, dance with a precision that n> as effective and absolute as though they were unmixed family of Plaza girls, filler gu s, Bathing Girls. The Actor Who Will Not Grow Up in his Only Two ...

... for replacements. But in the end the water would always get through, even to the front line, where he once fixed up shower-baths for some surprised and grateful Australian snipers in the most advanced positions. Major Rainier has the greatest admira tion ...

... have found them easy vic tims. Both are lacking in individuality. Dr. Priestley is an almost completely inhuman thinking machine, and so I like him the better of the two. If we can't have character, at least let us gain freedom from the small talk of ...

... hired fly listening to scratchy tunes on an abominable phonograph, the first telephone playing tennis in full pique dresses bathing in a baggy blouse and a skirt all over full bloomers seeing Lewis Waller in Henry V reading Marie Corelli having violent views ...

... of ups and downs, of quarrels --he even fell out with Shaw of suc cess and failure and the inevitable running down of the machine. Loraine's own defects of character made him a lonely man and not even his generosities which could be spontaneous and real ...

... , too, calls for the highest praise, though I would, if I had my way, cut down that long musical prelude emitted by some machine. Audiences are not impressed by having to sit for long periods in the dark lisiening to gramophone records. When Mr. Will ...

... wondering whether I am a safe com panion. A friend arriving in another punt, a welcome bearer of afternoon tea, tells me that my machine was audible half a mile away. Like a Gatling gun, he growls. Discouraged, I stop. I never can work out of doors. X make a ...

... Family. Now retired, and spends most of his time in his villa at Cannes. Recreations golf, travel. Clubs Athenseum, Savile, Bath. Wrong again He turns out to be Anthony Hope. 'T'here now entered, rather late, a gentleman whose appearance created an immense ...