... IflrOO MUCH VIRTUEfi Lf 1- BY THE OLD GUARD J, .FA vMW THE pleasant feast of Spring is with us once again, the bird of the air has found its mate, and the early buds on the open road call to us of the life that is being born anew. In the Spring, by common tradition, the good red blood of the English flows less sluggishly in their veins; wherefore let us pray that the English may now be moved ...

... RACKETS The Army Doubles Championship By their victory in the Army Doubles Championship at Prince's last week, the holders, Captain H. G. Moore-Gwyn and Captain T. O. Jameson, have enabled the 3rd Battalion the Riile Brigade to join the select band of five units which have won this com petition more than once. The fact that the final was contested by two battalions of the same regiment was ...

... : Bruce Bairnsfather Just think, if only you and I was Gort and Ironside There 'd he none of this foot sloggin'. They'd send a lorry for us C Bruce Bairnsfather ...

... The Cave of the Golden Calf Public Taste As an endemic form of entertain ment it is difficult to believe that the artistic cabaret can ever have any success in England. Nor do I think under the circumstances that any attempt to popularise it would be particularly admirable. The persistence with which people, who ought to know better, try to graft on a patient populace various art- forms ...

... i i BY DELL LEIGH y i. ARE you sure Mr. Mason got the V.C. in the War, or were you pulling my leg just now? The girl at the piano looked across the room with studied indifference at a small man who was carefully sorting a jumbled heap of cards on the bridge-table. Charlton, who was shovelling dusty tobacco from pouch to pipe, smiled. Yes, he did. Forget what for; During one of the Somme ...

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... Our Day of Rest BY SPECIAL CONSTABLE XXX. j ON Sunday we drill. Those of us who are twicers (as Gladstone phrased it) attend drill in the mornings and service in the even ing. The oncers attend drill. the point 1 have the honour to suggest to the authorities is that we should be favoured with some of the new drill. The old stuff form fours, form two-deep, form squad we have had ad nauseum. ...

... Searchlights behind the Footlights WAR AS A PEACEMAKER AT THE SAVOY THEATRE vy rfrr BY JINGLE THIS is quite a good play. It is concerned with the war both before and during hostil ities, but there are no military manifestations about it. The nearest thing to an alien enemy that we see on the stage is a German financier named Schmaltz, who, however, has not only been naturalised, but has ...

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... LONDON NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENTS jOBEffi fi^EKTu'' The 'QUEi'ENS By JINGLE THIS is a comedy of the Turf. Evelyn Swizel (Miss Ethel Irving) is the daughter of a country clergyman, and we learn, therefore, without emotion that she appears to know a good deal more than she was taught at school. The symptoms so far are normal, and there is no temperature. Evelyn rj '-^j i has a ne'er-do-well ...

... WHAT ARE THEY SAYING? yl New Conversational Competition. HOW often in the club, in town or midst the camps and dèbris of the pavestone pickers, or even in Balham on the way to procure the local margarine, indeed anywhere, do we see people-- we may know them, we may not-- in absorbed colloquy, or in less exalted phrase it might, perhaps, be termed chummy back-chat. But the witty wordsman is ...

... RACING NOTIONS By Carbine A Starting Fiasco WHAT a colossal muddle it was in the First October Nursery at Newmarket last week! Surely some less antiquated and in efficient method of informing jockeys that there is no start could be devised than that which is now in force. The failure of the recall man-- the official who is posted with a red flag on the course-- to catch Captain Allison's ...