... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... Fox populi J\ ?dble Written and Illustrated by R. S. Sherriffs. THE first time Reynard V. Fox, M.P., was offered an intro duction to Lord Lion he was overcome with shyness and fainted on the carpet. The second time he wasn't so shy, but then he wasn't noticed either. But the third time he was noticed, and the fourth time he was noticed quite kindly and was allowed to shake a paw. Not long ...

... CHRISTOPHER FRY loves words. He holds them up for examination. He scatters them in glittering largesse. He juggles with them. He makes fifty words serve where most dramatists would use five. And the result, in his approxi mately mediæval comedy at the Globe, is a play for fellow word- fanciers if not for all playgoers. The trouble is the convention that any piece for the theatre should have a ...

... 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 ...

... . FATHER What happens to little boys that tell stories CHILD They 're kept in after school. FATHER And what happens when they grow up CHILD They 're kept late at the office. Specially Drawn for The Sketch by Bert Thomas. ...

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... . 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 ...

... Revolutions are Circular n fable Written and Illustrated by R. S. Sherriffs. DLOOD is cheap. Nearly everybody has plenty of it. Thus, it is the lubricant of revolution. In Oberonia the machinery of revolution had worked well. Oberonia was now the Federation of Pluto-Communist State-holdings. But the F.P.C.S. still lacked one thing, a President. A supreme Commoner. Ottakar, the Principal ...

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