... The Passing Hour Comments and Asides By A. G. Macclonell CHRISTMAS festivities being satisfac torily concluded with the help of a certain amount of common sense and a very great deal of bicar bonate of soda, I am taking up the Passing Hour where I left it a week ago. A fortnight ago in the BYSTANDER my colleague, Mr. Wyndham Lewis, for once in a very long while, hit the right nail on the head ...

... A. P. Herbert and Tom Mix The cowboy film star had the good fortune to sit by the politician-humorist, and vice versa, at the Circus Lunch at Olympia. Mr. Mix who is apparently a left-handed drinker, has been over here since September, when he and his horse Tony the Second made their English stage debut at the Palladium Anna Lee and Robert Stevenson Anna Lee ivas going ski-ing in Switzerland ...

... Films of the Day A Good End to a Bad Year By George Campbell A DISAPPOINTING year ended in a blaze of glory with Victor Saville's production of The Citadel. It is one of the best pictures made in 1938. I would go farther and say it is one of the best British pictures made in any year. I can imagine no more effective, reply to the defeatists in British films than this absorbing, amusing, bril ...

... Under Your Hat The Hulbert Courtneidge Musical Comedy Act I. Scene 1, A Chair for Miss Porter Film-star Kay Porter (Cicely Courtneidge) has to take a rest after shooting a brief scene with her co-star husband Jack Millet Hulbert, quarrelling with him about the glamorous vamp, Carol Markojf, and berating the whole studio staff. Her dress is so tight she takes her rest standing up Act. I. Scene ...

... By Eleanor E. Helnie L nplayable and deserted its bunkers fdled ivith snow drifts, the Old Course at North Berwick lay drearily under the storm-cloud's shadow. The biting wind that teas blowing over the fairway of the Sea Hole is belter imagined than felt. But by now the snow has gone again, and a few hardy- Scots are probably blowing on their fingers at the first tee IF I could have my ...

... NEXT Saturday we have the final England Trial at Twickenham, and with ghoulish delight we may gloat over the troubles of those patient men, the selectors. The trouble about being a Rugby selector is that you can never be right. There will always be argument about any team you pick, and most of it will come from the North, where they suffer, if I may judge by correspondence, from a persecu tion ...

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... Socialite Sisters No. 2. Twins M iss Thalia Gordon Thalia and Anthea Gordon are the twin daughters of Mr. and Mrs, Charles Gordon, of Boveridge Park, near Salisbury. They are a country pair, with hunting, ski-ing and flying as their preferred occupations, and especially hunting, which they do with the Portman they are both excellent horsewomen. Of their two elder sisters, one married Peter ...

... aW Q^, oV teUl *e Z&+J1 \c paces C1,VS The Four Queens of the air start their way up to the hundred-feet altitude of the big top, where the act begins. These girls, Americans, claim to be the loveliest in the circus world. They are making their first English appearance Newcomers to Lon l-'rc0'!* Ugfc) r ifiC^s sceTl scries °f font, ^fteverh01 Lists the gT°Uf naU're f he m Gena Lipkoicska is ...

... \/T *1 The Bystander's Review of Lrettlllg lVlarried Weddings and Engagements Jean Bourne Bromley Is engaged to Dr. Angus John Smith, only son of the late John Smith, of Salisbury, Rhodesia, and Mrs. A. P. B. Smith, of 66, Chelsea Square, 5. W. 3. She is the only daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Bromley, of Castle Hedingham, Essex Bassano Lilian Rae Is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Rae, of ...

... George Melvin Nurse to the Babes George Melvin is the nurse in charge of the Babes in the Wood in the pantomime of that name at Drury Lane urbane and eyebrow-raising, on bicycle, in nursery, or among the pie-slingers in the kitchen, he fits ideally into the show, which demonstrates pantomime tradition undisturbed. Melvin is an Aberdeen man and a theatrical by birth and Upbringing his first ...

... j Spanish Grandee in Swiss Snow During General Franco's big push to put an end to the agony of Spain, his representative in England, the Duke of Alba and Berwick, did not think fit to upset his holiday arrangements and ivas duly photographed with his daughter Tana in the snows above St. Moritz Yugoslavian Premier on Swiss Ice Dr. Milan Stojadinovic, the Yugoslavian Council of Regency's first ...