... Belgians, Baths an A Books By SYLVIA LYON THERE is something charmingly naive in the expansive word ing of Continental pub licity: COME TO BEL GIUM, BELGIUM INVITES YOU. I read with emotion this large-handed and largely printed evidence of hospitality ...

... two-reel custard-pie comedies which are ground out of Hollywood studios with the dismal regularity of sausages emerging from a machine. These comedies are usually quite distressingly unfunny. They are, in fact, more stupid, dreary, gross, and witless than the ...

... these middle-aged philanderers suddenly felt how chilly it would be to leave the shelter of their bachelor and spinster bathing machines, and plunge into the, to them, grey, cold sea of matrimony. If they loved each other well they loved their freedom, their ...

... gifted with larger and beefier hands than usual, and they clapped them with a vigour that suggested the regular popping of a machine-gun in action. Mr. Fred Astaire is Jimmie Reeve, the guardian of three lively girls, of whom Frankie Wynne (Miss Adele Astaire) ...

... horseless carriage to parade, not always successfully, the Queen's highway. When a man called Wright appeared in France with a machine Continued on page Oojt LADY GOWER The wife of Sir Robert Gower, O.B.E., J.P., of Tunbridge Wells, is the only daughter of ...

... synchronisation is done by boring holes in a disc or cutting slits in a ribbon, and the vitaphone could do no more than other machines. I shall not criticise in detail the variety programme submitted by Messrs. Warner Brothers, for the reason that half of ...

... 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 ...

... attractive costume of the Westerner is designed in a purely utilitarian sense. Some of the coloured slides placed in the machine, though rather crude, are made entertaining by an attached story. The actual films are extremely interesting, parti cularly ...

... THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE LADIES' ANNUAL SWIMMING MATCH AT THE BATH CLUB THE TWO TEAMS. Our photograph shows the Oxford and Cambridge ladies' swimming teams for the annual match at the Bath Club. The names, from left to right, are, standing the Cambridge ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... us if we sometimes fancy that a man might not do what all this machinery is doing, if once he were a man and no longer a machine And what is marching against us to-day except machinery The trouble with all of you is colour-blindness. There is a world-wide ...