... . THESE caricatures of five of our most distinguished exponents in the various arts are on view at Osbert Lancaster's show at the Redfern Gallery; illustrate the excellence of his observation, the sharpness of his wit. Illl III! The Lord Berners grappling wi'.h his muse. Miss Frey'd Stark explaining to a relatively- unsophisticated audience the genius of Mr. Norman Hartnell Mr. Ardixxone ...

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... . AT the Leicester Galleries' Exhibition Artists of Fame and of Promise may be seen the two top portraits and that of Augustus John below, left. The bottom-right portrait is on view at the Wildenstein. The four together present a fascinating contrast in manner. TfeTE DE FEMME by Modigliani, c. 1916. MRS. NAOMI MITCHISON by Wyndham Lewis. PORTRAIT OF AUGUSTUS JOHN b f Sir William Orpen, R.A. ...

... WESTMINSTER WARBLERS (so. in EMMWOOD'S A steady frequenter of bun-fights, camp kitchens and canteens. Quick on the wing, and possesses a most melodious song ADULT MALE General colour above pink, lightly crested with ashy-fulvous feathers, heavily tufted above the eye-sacs with feathers of a similar hue beak prominent, curved and mid-mauve in colour mandibles blue body feathers blue, often ...

... WESTMINSTER WARRLERS (so. EMMWOOD'S Now that the singing season is over this bird is mournfully building its nest, a large and somewhat bleak structure made almost entirely of scrap iron ADULT MALE General colour above faintly pink, with ashy-fulvous tufts on the dome of the head and to the rear of the mandibles beak curved, inclined to russet when roused body feathers sombre in colour, except ...

... . 44 He 's taking a conjurer with him to be sure of a rabbit. DRAWN BY L. B. MARTIN. 44 You never know there might be a conductress on board. DRAWN BY PETER ENDER. I can't ask you to dine with me but I U do my best to get you on to a delegation we 're sending to New York next month. DRAWN BY KENNETH BEAUCHAMP. ...

... , seen here in his house in Kensington, writes thrillers with a difference, as all who have enjoyed his Couse for Alarm. The Mask of Dimitrios. The Ortnher Mnn an H nfhpr hnrk will aar#P Mpnfinn nf thp last-named recalls its success as a film and its author's increasingly close connection with the film world. Writer of the script of one of the best of the war films, The Way Ahead, he has now ...