... Dancing Woman, described as a Polish grotesque of the fifteenth century, is the new ballet intro duced during the last weeks of this company's season at St. James s Theatre, which ended on Saturday last. The music is by M. V. I.aunitz, the Company's musical director, a Russian by birth, Jw-ho was associated with Anna Pavlova in her productions and was, indeed, her favourite conductor. Choreo ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen Indian Scene MR. RUMER GODDEN'S Breakfast with the Nikolides (Peter Davies; 7s. 6d.) appears early in the 1942 publishing season. And it looks to me likely-- whatever else is to follow-- to keep a very high place in the spring lists. I do not predict for this novel a fantastic commercial future, astrological sales. fhe book may be too quiet or, maybe, too disconcerting to ...

... The Tatler and Bystander's Review of Weddings Blaxland Sharpe Lieut. -Commander George FeUowes Blaxland R.N., only son of the late Vice- Admiral and Mrs. J. E. Blax land, married Patricia Marianne Sharpe, only daughter of Engineer Rear- Admiral and Mrs. A. Vjrnon Sharpe, °f 33 Alexandra Court, S.W., at St. Luke's, Chelsea Him zi zm n Tunbridge-Sedgwick Mrs. C. W. Roundell Ann Moore, younger ...

... -/4 By Sabretache Peeking EQUITATION is a most useful guide to war in either its tactical or strategical departments, and I feel that it would help a whole lot of people to a better per spective of things if this fact were realised a bit oftener than it is. Take the matter of what is called pecking (nothing whatever to do with the animal's nibbling either a carrot or the rider's shin-bone!). ...

... By Oliver Stewart Farewealth ART and aviation owe much to the wealthy patron. Strange pictures, strange music and strange aeroplanes would not have had so many opportunities to claim the atten tion of the public had it not been for the youth ful fanatic who inherits more money than miserliness. And it is only fair to say that art and aviation have proved themselves again and again well able to ...

... ^T The Hay-wain by John Constable (1776-1837) tL In the ponderous progress of the Hay- wain through a typically English scene, Constable has recorded for us the wheel in one of its earliest uses. To-day, among the incessant whirring of modern industrial machinery, we of B.S.A. look back on this patriarch of the wheel with no mean respect. It symbolises for us the beginning of an important era ...

... By Foresight Pacific News THERE'S a Dunkirk determination about the reactions of people in all places to the daily repetition of bad news from the Pacific. Events there grow so grave that even the ready recriminations of politicians have died away for the time. The siege of Singapore is watched with a calm which shields but does not deny deep anxiety. As in the case of Hong Kong, water ...

... rr,cS By James Agate Technicolor Tease A LYRICAL caption describing an isolated island in the Bahamas, at the beginning of Bahama Passage, at the Plaza, rather flabbergastingly concludes with the sentence: What happens when into this loneliness and repression swaggers a girl who has been around? The answer is, of course, nothing whatever, until exactly an hour and a half after the question ...

... Diplomacy at Work The Hon. Sir Alexander Cadogan, G.C.M.G., C.B., at the Foreign Office As Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ince 1938, Sir Alexander Cadogan has played an important part in all decisions affecting British foreign policy in recent ears. In 1933 he was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Sinister Plenipotentiary, and later Ambassador, at Pekin, nd succeeded ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen Slack Book I HAVE to hand, this week, one of the most massive, impassive and detailed indict ments of Nazi Germany that have so far appeared. The German New Order in Poland (published for the Polish Ministry of In formation by Hutchinson; IOS. 6d.) has been compiled from carefully sifted evi dence; if anything, it is an understatement, for it confines itself to facts that ...

... The Tatler and Bystander's Review of Weddings and Engagements Boddam-Whetham Lane Captain John Hayes Boddam-Whetham Queen's Westminsters, K.R.R.C. only son of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Boddam-Whetham, of 37, Crompton Court, S.H'., and Joan Margaret Lane, younger daughter of Major- General and Mrs. C. R. C. Lane, of Poona, Itidia, were married at Holy Trinity Church, Brompton Felicity Par doe Felicity ...

... ^4 By Sabretache iVoI Me, Sir! EVEN the most unobservant of us must have noticed that the man who is himself in an advanced stage of alcoholic poisoning always asserts that it is everyone else around and about him who is suffering from staggering inebriety. Von Hitler has assured the world that he never touches anything, and that, furthermore, he never gabbles, never steals, never lies, and ...