... ENTERTAINMENTS a la CARTE By ALAN BOTT Miss Lorne with Atmosphere WHEN Mr. Walter Hackett sets out to stage something in a London mews, he insists on making it emphatically a mews and unmistakably in London. The proportions of the stage may keep it, in square yards, a bit below life-size, but atmosphere will expand it into the sort of teeming mews which Stevenson might have used for London's ...

... THE PASSING SHOWS It's a Boy, at the N-ew Strand Theatre INVERESK House, THE TATLER'S weekly birth-place, commands a fine view of Comedy Corner. Just across the road is the Gaiety, where Messrs. Laddie Cliff and Stanley Lupino specialize in broad comedy set to music with the word love as a sine qua non in the title. Near by is the Aldwych, for many moons the playground and gold mine of ...

... Racial g Ragout By GUARDRAIL WHAT a National! Fine weather, perfect vision and a finish which for thrill is unlikely to be equalled again. Watching the race from the Canal Turn it seemed that practically without exception they all hit the fences in front without penalty, and I don't think they were as strong as usual. The winner is a small horse, very small, only fifteen hands and a half, ...

... By GUARDRAIL THE end of hunting and the beginning of the flat race season are heralded by point-to-points all over the country, an odd form of sport for which it seems difficult to legislate. Try as they will the race for horses which have been regularly hunted over 3 miles of fair hunting country is generally won by a hatchet-faced gent or a blood spiff which has seldom seen hounds ...

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... AT THE PICTURES The Tiibitsvh Twtaeh Trothi Km vp Lnvkluirt WATCHING a Hungarian colonel with all the Fairbanks gallantry and glamour storm a Ruritanian castle where Betty Grable makes as consciously improbable a countess as any ever played by Jeanette MacDonald, I wondered why Ernst Lubitsch had not been remembered among the illustrious dead who were honoured at the Belgian Film Festival. ...

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... a n B- Wyndham Lewis HAVING blood-ties with the Clan Donna chaidh (Robertsons to you), we tenta tively draw the black steel (sgeain dubh) and rally contingently to the present 25th Chieftain, a don in Jamaica who has publicly declared that certain of our fellow-clansmen are trying to depose him because his great- grandmother was a coloured lady of great beauty known as the Venus of the Island. ...

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... I By GUARDRAIL WELL, that finishes Newmarket till the back-end meetings and I, for one, am sorry. What with sales, going round stables and visiting studs, there is such a lot to do. It isn't very difficult either to back a certain number of winners at the July meetings, but that Sandown ought to be made a felony. It is quite extraordinary how difficult it is to be right there. The two-year ...

... vdt&i L PROBLEM To preserve one's repu tation as a discriminating hostess and yet to balance one's household budget. SOLUTION f krft _ Armed with a bottle of Votrix Dry and Votrix Sweet you can compile the best possible Cocktails for the least possible outlay. Votrix Vermouth costs quite an appreciable lot less than its Continental counterparts because it's produced in Britain. Yet its ...