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... London Nights Wartime Dinner, Dance and Cabaret The Bystander's Going-Out Guide The Ritz L'ABRI du RITZ still shines out its message in safe blue underneath the arches in Picca dilly. Follow the indication of that, go crown the stairs to wards what you used to know as the Grill (or the Bar perhaps), and you come-- at right-time. anyway to the new Popote. La Popote du Ritz is probably ...

... Fox populi J\ ?dble Written and Illustrated by R. S. Sherriffs. THE first time Reynard V. Fox, M.P., was offered an intro duction to Lord Lion he was overcome with shyness and fainted on the carpet. The second time he wasn't so shy, but then he wasn't noticed either. But the third time he was noticed, and the fourth time he was noticed quite kindly and was allowed to shake a paw. Not long ...

... CHRISTOPHER FRY loves words. He holds them up for examination. He scatters them in glittering largesse. He juggles with them. He makes fifty words serve where most dramatists would use five. And the result, in his approxi mately mediæval comedy at the Globe, is a play for fellow word- fanciers if not for all playgoers. The trouble is the convention that any piece for the theatre should have a ...

... By Herbert Farjeon Up and Doing (Saville) TAKING it by and large, the impression left on me by this revue, which has now returned to the revivified Saville, was extremely gay and agreeable. Taking it item by item, what I felt was:-- (1) Opening, The Shop, smart, bright, brisk, auspicious as to chorus, principals and costumes, a good get-away. (2) I've Got You Where I Want You boy-and-girl ...

... One Thine and Another By D. B. Wyndham Lewis LORD CASTLEROSSE remarked with a cheery laugh a few days ago, apropos the most recent large-scale Army exercises, that to see the invaders hurled back every time with heavy losses on these occasions is extremely gratifying. (The same thing has been happening lately on Soviet Army manoeuvres.) So far as we remember he made this the text for a ...