... THE BODY WAS WELL NOURISHED By ANTHONY COOKMAN THE TATLER AT THE THEATRE THE body needed to be exceedingly well nourished. After taking a murderous knock from a pair of knobby fire-tongs, and after spend ing some hours buried in a grand piano, it was still able to totter out for further punish ment. It was promptly chloroformed. What happened to it thereafter we are not told. It is one of a ...

... BUBBLE and SQUEAK THE comedian was reviewing to an audience in the club his recent country tour. Everywhere, accord ing to him, he was a sensation. Even in the very toughest towns. Speaking of one small town he shook his head sadly, however. Now there, he observed, was a tough audience. Really tough, I mean. Why, the act ahead of me was hissed off the stage. Yes, really. They just hissed and ...

... SORRY, MUM I THOUGHT IT WAS THE AIR-RAID WARNING I DRAWN BY FRANK REYNOLDS. ...

... THEATRES OF WARTIME LONDON. By THEODORA BENSON and BETTY ASKWITH, i Authors of Foreigners or the World in a Nutshell. No. 20. COTTAGE TO LET, AT WYNDHAM'S. LAURA was im mensely sur prised when Rodney, over dinner at the York Minster, told her that he had got tickets tor Wyndham's. She had ex pected either the ballet, or some quaint little theatre with only fifty members, or some rather ...

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... By Martin Hawkin Two soldiers were walking along the Fulham Palace Road, talking of this and that; in fact, of any subject but the one that then filled the Press, the wire less and the civilian mind: the war. It was a balmy evening. The balloons had just gone up for the night vigil and rode luminously against their backcloth of pale blue, dwarfing the ghostly disc of the moon. It was a night ...

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... The Maid (announcing an air-raid warning) Oh, Sir, the sirens with the warbling note The Gay Old Dog: Well, show them in and let them warble here. DRAWN BY TOPOLSKI. ...