... BUBBLE SQUEAK Stories from Everywhere A MERCHANT heard that the natives of an island in the South Seas had more gold than they knew what to do with, so he decided to help them out. He sailed to their island with a boatload of onions. The natives had never tasted onions, and were delighted with them; they exchanged a shipload of gold for the onions. The merchant's business rival was enraged ...

... Lunch-time Ballet Jay Pomeroy Provides Midday Relaxation for London Workers One Hour of Ballet at the Cambridge Theatre provides a pleasant midday interlude of relaxation away from the War for London workers. The Commedia del* Arte Ballet to the music of Johann Strauss with additions by Mark Lubbock is the main feature of the programme. Other ballets include The French Can-Can (music by ...

... Another Shavian Reviv Arms and the Man-- in its Fifty-First Yi is Included in the Old Vic's New Reper Bluntschli 44 If they find me, I promise you a fight a devil of a fight Raina, a Bulgarian lady Margaret Leighton), finds a strange man in her bedroom. It is Bluntschli, a Swiss captain Ralph Richardson Sergius 44 What would Sergius, the apostle of the higher love, say if he saw me now ...

... -^4 By Sabretache Rank Outsider THE chatty people, who tell us all the gossip about the modern German, assert that the officer commanding the only remaining enemy force of any size in France, the Army of Bordeaux, is rated by the Junkers as one of the greatest bounders in their service. The name is Blaskowitz, and it is said of him that any air other than that breathed by the very blue-blooded ...

... By Oliver Stewart Turning the Tide WITH military success there comes a keener interest in the prospects of civil aviation. Those prospects are bound up with the mental attitude of the larger public towards civil aviation and it is in this field that a great deal of work must be done. I was surprised by the large number of letters which came to me a short time ago when I wrote of the legacy of ...

... Racing at Phoenix Park, Dublin There was a record crowd at the recent meeting at Phoenix Park, when Mrs. A. P. Reynold's Panorama filly, Lady's View, beat the favourite, Mr. E. Bellaney's Marita, by nearly a length in the Fifteen Hundred T.Y.O. Race, Mr. Joe McGrath's Mafosta coming in third. An Irish sprint record of 58 seconds was created by Mr. R. Mcllhagga's China Tealeaf in the North Wall ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen Somerset Maugham ONE hears it said of an author, from time to time, that he is a writer for writers. This may or may .not mean praise-- on the whole, not-- either way, it implies something esoteric; also, that the technique of the man's work is more striking, or matters more, than its content. To novel- writing, this is, as a rule, disastrous: the technique may- command ...

... MYSELF AT THE PICTURES Escapism Again By James Agate Champagne Charlie (Regal, Marble Arch and London Pavilion) made at Ealing, seems to me a wholly lamentable business in which a vast amount of time and money and trouble has been thrown away to no purpose. I don't believe that in the days of the Great Vance, the nincompoopery of Tommy Trinder, which is the inanity of George Formby at one ...

... G c^j A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country Two Birthdays Last week there were two birthdays in the Royal Family, both on August 21st. H.R.H. Princess Margaret was fourteen, and her cousin, the Hon. Gerald Lascelles, younger son of the Princess Royal and the Earl of Harewood, was twenty. Like all other family anniversaries since the war, there were no special celebrations of any kind, but ...

... The Man Who Made Music Popular in London Sir Henry Wood Dies in the Year of His Jubilee With the death of Sir Henry Wood, Britain loses one of her foremost musical figures. Born in London seventy-five years ago, not far from the present site of the Queen's Hall, where later he was to conduct for so many years the immensely popular Promenade Concerts, he did more than any man of his time to ...

... Air Vice-Marshal Harries became Director-General of Personal Services at the Air Ministry last year, and as such is responsible for many of the matters concerning the everyday life of members of the R.A.F. and W.A.A.F. Amongst his occupations at the present time are plans for their return to civil life after the war. Originally destined for the Royal Navy, Air Vice-Marshal Harries was educated ...

... Living in Wiltshire Mrs. Ivan Fox well and Her Daughter, Zia Mrs. Ivan Foxwell and her three-year-old daughter, Zia, live in a beautiful old Wiltshire farm house at Sherston. Mrs. Foxwell, only child of the late Capt. the Hon. Lionel Lambart, D.S.O., R.N., and the Hon. Mrs. Lainhart, was married in 1940 to Major Ivan Cottam Foxwell, the well-known film producer, who is now serving in the Royal ...