... tutr Riviera ILetter„ rr Tatler, Since I wrote you last we have had our first real bit of winter weather, and v e r y curious it seems after two months of mid summer sun shine. Starting with a terrific thunderstorm, we have gone on to a gale, which has swept the Croisette from end to end, and made the rows of trim white-and-gold yachts in the harbour rock in the most disconcerting manner ...

... TV /T y Dear Tatler, This week's weather has again made things very difficult for the lawn-tennis player, and particularly in the north, where the Gleneagles Hotel lawn-tennis week had quite filled the hotel. This tournament is, of course, the last of the big series of Scottish meetings, and as such, attracts both the Scottish and English players. This week's entry was by far the best ever ...

... OUR TEHHES EETTEEL MY DEAR TATLER, This has again been a pretty full week from the lawn-tennis player's point of view, for in addition to nineteen big tournaments all in progress, there are the Welsh, Scotch, and Irish Championships, to say nothing of the Army and R.A.F. Meeting at the Queen's Club, London. Matches galore, and the Davis Cup semi-finals into the bargain. As a matter of fact, we ...

... Tjhe Bee in the Bonnet AM AUTO-CAUSERIE. By Gerald! Biss. MY DEAR TATLER, Galling as it is to all nobility of sentiment and aesthetic conception, it is being borne in upon me more and more daily what a belly-ridden nation we are, though perhaps no worse than any other, to be fair to ourselves in fact, that King Tum-tum is the World's Controller. Only yesterday I was talking to a friend holding ...

... OUR TENBilS LITTER TVTy Dear Tatler, This week's lawn tennis has still been rather under the weather, so to speak, and those sensible competitors who selected the Welsh Covered Court Championships as their choice would seem to have done wisely. Although the Craigside meeting is not of necessity a very large one (they have only two covered courts, remember), it is one which never fails to ...

... Dear Sir, In your issue dated December 25th, 1946, your contributor, Beaumont Kent, in his item, Back stage, mentions that Lyndon Brook 44 recently dis tinguished himself in the Footlights (sic) production of Gorki's The Lower Depths Lyndon Brook did distinguish himself in no mean manner in this play, but it was presented by this Club and not by the Footlights. Mr. Brook, besides being one of ...

... Tjhe Bee in. the B eh in ft AM AUTO-CAUSERIE. By Gersvldl B MY DEAR TATLER-- Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the street of Berkeley, that the other day I had the now rare adventure of being upon the road in an automobile! I felt so guilty, but looked as though butter wouldn't melt in my cylinders, though it was all fair and above board, the petrol fully licensed and the car one of ...

... I thought your wife's name was Elizabeth So it is. Then why do you call her Short for Pegasy. What has that to do with it Why, Pegasa is feminine for Pegasus. Well W ell, Pegasus is an immortal steed. What of that Sh Not so loud. She's in the next room. You see an immortal steed is an everlasting nag, and there vou are.- -1. S. Williams, IS, Durham Road, Newport, Mon. ...

... One day Pat and his friend, Murphy, were walking a'ong a country road skirted by a wall built up with loose cobblestones put one on top of the other. They had not gone far when down came a portion of the wall on top of them. Have mercy upon us, cried Murphy. Shut up you fool, said Pat; haven't we got enough upon us --Arthur Livesey, 7, Newstead Road, Liverpool. ...

... Tlhe Bee in the Boniniet AM AUTO-CAUSERIE. By Gerald Biss. MY DEAR TATLER, Things are indeed coming to a pretty pass, as the Victorians used to say, when acquisitive Sir Alfred Tout-le-Mond cannot keep his itching claws off the British Museum, and actually proposes to turn the dear old Mummeries into the latest neo-martial Minx-ery in order to celebrate the birth of the Air Board after much ...

... Tlhe Bee in tine Bonirnet AM AUTO -CAUSER IE. By Geraldl Bis. MY DEAR TATLER, Papers really ought to be all stop press news in these Ugo Biondi days like the ha'penny evening sheets which once upon a time battened on racing and now piously disown it in its Cinderella days. As it is, the bally old orders have hardly left the dark rooms of their various controllers before they change, giving ...

... THe Be in the Bonimet AH AUTO-CAUSER.EE. By Getrald Biss. MY DEAR TATLER, With the Hunter chasing chaste Diana nightly, to the vast encouragement of Hunnish malpractices, it behoves me as far as I can see to antedate my letters to you at such seasons, even more than ordinarily necessary, as Zodiacal Zepps and giddy Gothas, when they turn up, play such Hades with our postal arrange ments, to my ...