... The Bystander visits the 1700-year-old The Orange Special? 7.50 a.m. from the Gare de Lyon takes down members of the Optra, Opera Comique, Comtdie-Franqaise and Odeon companies to the Midi. Upright in his second-class corner sits M. Lafleurance, flautist, who has been at the Opera for fifty years, and clings, alone, to the old-style morning coat and white waistcoat En voyage members of the ...

... Mr. and Mrs. B. Bira at Home Prince Birabongse Bhamnbandi of Thailand is one of the many expatriate members of the royal family of his country (formerly Siam), now represented on the throne by the fourteen-year-old King Ananda Mihadol. Bira, as he calls himself on the race-track, came over here to go to Eton, and has never returned to his country. Instead, he has made a considerable place for ...

... What's On THEATRES Straight Plays Buxton Festival. The Old Vic Company in Romeo and. Juliet, The Devil's Disciple, The Good Natur'd Man, Viceroy Sarah. The Corn is Green. Emlyn Williams's biographical play is full of life Sybil Thorndike as a go-ahead Welsh schoolmistress, Williams as her genius prot6g£ Duchess, 8.30. Tues., Thurs., 2.30. Counterfeit. Comedy and gangsterism agreeably mixed, ...

... : Even those who went on as usual knew they went on as usual under the shadow of the unusual Parachutes are the concern of Miss Ena Spencer who now controls the Spencer Balloon and Parachute Works in North London. Great-granddaughter of Edward Spencer the pioneer aeronaut she made her first balloon ascent at twelve months, her first parachute descent at fifteen years, now works overtime in her ...

... This film, at the Leicester Square Theatre, follows on Hollywood's discovery of the mine of material in American history, and on the success on the New York stage of Abe Lincoln in Illinois. Built on an obscure incident in Lincoln's young days as a frontier lawyer, it is notable, says our critic in his review opposite, for its integrity as well as its entertainment value Lincoln makes his name ...

... C ZJasluon as li flies by (l? lima l>e ill Scott Bushs nnHE backbone of a town wardrobe is a black coat. So has chanted many a sage and women have marked and profited. Well here 's your backbone. Black wool, with an interesting ribbed surface. There 's a neat-fitting back with just a little swing as you walk, and un- pressed pleats at the front to give quite a lot of swing as you walk. A half ...

... J. S. F. Morrison on Golf Rules and Local Rules MANY people take their holidays in August, and consequently many people must play during this month on golf courses on which they have never played before. If you play any competitive golf on a strange course it is essential, as a rule, to know the local rules. It is really surprising how some clubs manage to produce a ridiculously large number ...

... WITH HER HUSBAND IN THE CRISIS THE QUEEN RETURNS. 3 HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN, like any other devoted wife naturally tvished to be by her husband's side throughout the grave and anxious days of last week. She left Balmoral for London on Monday night August 28, and joined the King, who has been at Buckingham Palace since August 24, having left Balmoral on Wednesday evening, August 23. Princess ...

... The Passing Hour Comments and Asides By A. G. Macdonell WITH the German terms to Poland occupying my mind, I set out on the long-familiar journey from my flat to the BYSTANDER office. The first thing which caught my eye at the underground station was a poster announcing Danzig Seized. At the other end of the journey there was Warsaw reported bombed, and before I actually reached the office ...

... The heroic and disciplinary qualities of the German people were put to a stern test (and in places showed the strain) at the opening of last week, when many essential food stuffs were rationed. For years this nation has saved for industry its meat bones, its egg-shells, its razor- blades, its tooth-paste tubes, and so 011 in a manner which is at once noble and pathetic. But September 1939 saw ...

... Beauiy^nChtfo^ CHIFFON in delicate pastel colours ice-cream pink, baby blue, butter yellow is used for this lovely lingerie from Harrods, Kniglitsbridge. The large picture shows a nightdress and neglige to match, and this set can also be made to order in black or almost any other colour, and can be had, too, in chiffon printed with sixpenny- sized spots. The nightdress is straight-cut, with a ...

... Women's Golf Provided that 'By Eleanor E. Helme Conditions, Entry Form, and Where to Stay for Bystander Autumn Foursomes are on page iv. IN these strange days of suspense-- I write at the moment when Hitler is pondering Great Britain's reply of August 28th-- there is something extremely soothing, not to say heartening, in the steady trickle of entries for the BYSTANDER Autumn Four somes at ...