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... tan IPrtrte Inn Print Beinc* the lucubrations of your moft obedient fcribe, Mr. Gordon Beckles There is quite an Edwardian ring to the intelligence that His Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs has been enjoying the waters at Evian while the Chancellor of the Exchequer is taking a cure not so far away. The golden days of the Continental spas were also the gilded days of English ...

... 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 ...

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... i a One Thing and Another By D. B. Wyndham Lewis HITHER and yon ride the Ministry of Agriculture's alguazils, slinging lazy, rebellious, or incapable farmers off the land. It is strange that this highly topical and dramatic subject has inspired no Academy picture this year. One feels that a skilful artist could have found the Problem Picture of the Year in this stark little ceremony. The long ...

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... PERIL AT END HOUSE AT THE VAUDEVILLE By ALAN BOTT THIS, I suppose, would come under the heading of Comedy-Thrillers in any potted summary of What's On in the West End. Only, plays about crime need to be particularly lurid in wartime, with so much German competition from the theatres of war. Failing that, they must compensate with their comedy. But the fun in this thriller deals mostly in ...

... Simon llareourt-Smilli ATHOUGH hardly a week has gone by, it is not easy to recapture the precise brilliance of that frosty morning. The sky is no longer steel cold, nor infinitely high. Grey clouds that seem to breathe equality, so like is the drabness of one to that of the next, hedge-hop across a sullen countryside; the leaves which lately encrusted the hedges like golden icicles, have ...

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