... MOTLEY NOTES. By ALAN KEMP. Kemp Tells You. I do not care to reckon up the number of times that I have offered New Year greetings to readers of The Sketch. I add one run to the now considerable score, and leave it at that. In the matter of good resolutions, I could make a good many for you, but am not so hot at making them, or, anyhow, keeping them, for myself; so I will leave you to manage as ...

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... .* By LESLIE BUSSEY. ONE evening around seven I am sitting in a corner of Lou Kohler's Kosy Katé on Broadway. It is my night off from the Grand Union on Fourteenth Street, where I earn my bread and milk, and I am drinking coffee and wondering which movie to take in to pass the time away. Well, who meanders up to my table but a character by the name of Rustler Williams-. Why he is called ...

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... (P YOUNG GIRI^DARLING.' BY ALAN GRAY. CHARLES BROWN? Of course, I remember him. Glad you brought his name up. Mind you, I liked Charles; always did-- till I met him on a P. & O. coming home in 1940. And then the difference! I made a face. My friend Trevelyan and I sat gossiping, and it was obvious that he had heard something about Brown. Come on, Harry, he said, open up and drop the hush ...

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... MOTLEY NOTES. By ALAN KEMP. Scratch As Scratch Can. The result is in the ballot-boxes, and, at this moment of writing, nobody knows what it is. As it will be known, however, very soon after these lines appear in print, it seems prudent to refrain from prophecy. Nor am I taking any bets, as I have not the faintest idea of the new political alignment, and I have not met anybody who has-- though, ...

... By JOYCE DENNYS. MY DEAR ROBERT-- So you really are coming home at last! I can hardly believe it. Shall we have to meet under the clock at Waterloo, each wearing a pink carnation for fear we don't recognise each other? I hope not; carnations are dreadfully expensive just now. I may as well tell you at once that my hair is streaked with grey, and there is a middle-a£e sag under my chin which I ...

... . THE Ballet returned to Sadler's Wells yesterday, and on Monday Theyre Lee- Elliott opened his Exhibition of ballet paintings and drawings at the same theatre. We repro duce here some of the delicate sketches he is showing among larger and more ambitious paintings. This is the fifth exhibition Lee-Elliott has held at Sadler's Wells notable collectors of his work include Lady Louis Mountbatten ...

... MOTLEY NOTES. By ALAN KEMP. The Summer of Our Discontent. One of the immediate privileges of peace is that the weather is decontrolled and one can say anything one likes about it in speech or writing. Well, as the bargee observed, I won't say wot I was a-going to say, but wot I do say is that I have never known a more perversely exasper ating summer. True, all inhabi tants of these islands say ...

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