... Philip Page on the Theatre The West End's Only Panto, and Other Shows of the Week LET royalty take first place among the Christmas shows, so here goes for King Panto (though why pantomime should tradition ally be invested with such honour I have never understood). So far as the West End of London is concerned it is a solitary monarch this season, Cinderella at the Coliseum (it was ...

... Sarah Churchill is the young wife Lucrezia in Nicolo Machiavelli's comedy Mandragola, now at the Mercury, in Ashley Dukes' English adaptation. Voltaire thought the play worth all the comedies of Aristophanes, but London critics have lacked his enthusiasm. However, the production is a collector's piece for the theatrical connoisseur, since this, after four hundred and twenty-four years, is the ...

... : Brace Bairnsfather Nao, I don't mind it, mate. Whenever I gets a bit fed up, I either thinks of Poland, Finland and Czechoslovakia, or Denmark, Holland, Belgium and Rumania Bruce Bairnsfather ...

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... . L. to r. SIR KINGSLEY WOOD, Air Minister LADY MAUREEN STANLEY and the HON. OLIVER STANLEY were at the Shaftesbury Theatre. Also present were MRS. S. F. WYNNE-EYTON, Assistant Director W.A.A.F. AIR MARSHAL W. L. WELCH, C.B., D.S.O., A.F.C., Air Member for Supply and Organisation MISS J. H. TREFUSIS FORBES, Director, W.A.A.F. SIR EDWARD CAMPBELL, Secretary of State for Air SERGT. PILOT ...

... I_ _ _ _ _ . PRINCESS IRMA WEIKERSHEIM, in common with many lovely and well known women, has had her portrait done by the young Hungarian sculptor Nicolaus Koni who is having a very busy time of it in his London studio. Koni is fond of the long, flowing line of El Greco paintings, and you can see something of it in this bust of LADY ORANMORE AND BROWNE. A charming portrait-bust of PRINCESS ...

... THE FOOD OF LOVE. A MUSIC ARTICLE BY EDWIN EVANS. IT so happened that one of the last concerts I attended before Christmas was that of two-piano music given at the National Gallery by Myra Hess and Irene Scharrer. Also, some of the ballets that have been perform ing for our delec tation have been accompanied on two pianos. The two circumstances have combined to bring the subject of this kind ...

... ON DUTY-- ON LEAVE AT HOME WITH cold weather still to come and possible night alarms, warm dressing-gowns are as important as ever. Burberry, in the Hay- market, have these tailored models. The check one is in camel cloth with a cashmere finish, cut with raglan sleeves and edged with corded braid. The other also has a braid edging, but is buttoned up to a Peter Pan collar. Children will love ...

... . By H. E. SYMONS. THE motor taxation returns for this quarter will make interesting reading. When it was first announced that, in order to help meet the enormous expenditure on defensive armaments, the horse-power tax would be increased from 15s. to 25s. per h.p., it was fore cast that the number of large cars in use would fall to a mere fraction of its normal figure. The few optimists who ...

... Uniform is nowadays the wear for the King's sister, who, like the rest of the royal family, is setting a magnificent example to the country in the matter of pulling one's maximum weight against those unpleasant things we are fighting. The uniform in which Her Royal Highness is seen, is that of the Auxiliary Territorial Service, in which the Princess Royal occupies the important post of ...

... CONFESSIONS OF A SELF-MADE MAN STARTLING NEW YEAR REVELATIONS By MICHAEL ARLEN THIS is the time of year when writers and waiters are particularly busy. While everybody else is having a lot of fun, whether they enjoy fun or not, waiters are waiting on elderly lunatics in paper hats and writers are writing like mad. Now, I can't tell you anything from the inside about waiters, though if the war ...