... D. B. Wyndhani Lewis WHEN the first British judge saw his first Big Business host facing him in Court (see The Little White Bird), his laugh broke into a million weeny pieces, and the pieces went skipping and dancing all over the world and turned into a fairy accountant's Sunday hat. And that, we thought, reading a nostalgic piece about the reopening of Middle Temple Hall, was probably the ...

... Freda IS rare Loekhurt EALING STUDIOS, under Sir Michael Balcon, are building up a very remarkable record. Alone among British studios they seem to have recognized, as a policy and not a fluke, that intelli gence and ideas are more than million-dollar production schedules or ballyhoo. From Ealing alone comes a consistent attempt to develop a native British school of film instead of the ...

... ROW TO H fiV A FRIEND Paul Halt MR. PATRICK O'DONOVAN has been writing crossly to The Observer, complaining about the behaviour of British Embassies in far- flung lands. He says they are frequently suspicious of visiting foreign correspondents, even con temptuous, and that they tend to regard them selves as more important than the British public itself. For this, and for other sins hinted at ...

... JrTtc Freda Hr'ucc Fnvkhart Hollywood at any rate has no established style even remotely analagous to the elegant artificiality in which Oscar Wilde set his epigrams. Even if properly delivered, his torrents of verbal wit might well overwhelm most films. Yet although little is left but the creaking sentimental plots which Wilde oversowed with his sparkles, the delusion obstinately persists ...

... in I^Vvis Bohemian Pleasures Now, in the tiny, lamplit garden, one enjoys one's favourite Russian dishes No wonder that, in bygone days, people either left Paris after the Grand Prix, or hid themselves behind closed shutters if they were unable to get away. For this is the time of year when out-of-town friends-- not forgetting the friends-of-friends, armed with letters-- are passing through ...

... t f ii n J a 11 s the veliesl styles i corsets, girdles d corselettes (to say nothing of Ihose scarce still, best of all brassieres, Gothic) come to you as w /m\ my* foundations ...

... HOOPEK, t/vncfrtmncm/y jfr/ne rcac/uVcr/L Hooper Company (Coachbuilders) Limited in whose showrooms at 54 St. James s Street, London, S.W.i,maybc inspected examples of individually designed carriages on Daimler, Rolls-Royce and Bentlev chassis and where selection may be made, both of coachwork and chassis Hooper Limousine, 36 H. P. Daimler, shown outside the Hooper showrooms. The building is ...

... Revolutions are Circular n fable Written and Illustrated by R. S. Sherriffs. DLOOD is cheap. Nearly everybody has plenty of it. Thus, it is the lubricant of revolution. In Oberonia the machinery of revolution had worked well. Oberonia was now the Federation of Pluto-Communist State-holdings. But the F.P.C.S. still lacked one thing, a President. A supreme Commoner. Ottakar, the Principal ...

... Sabretache (Pictures In The Fire) ON top of all this racing and other hubbub (and there is a buzz about impending scandals), and omitting all the ugly war clouds, we have this ticklish situation over the Lords' Ladies. I have it on unimpeachable authority that, whilst at present none of the female members of the Peerage has any in tention of casting herself in the path of the runners in the ...

... IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE Not necessarily a Doctor of Medicine, but one skilled in drawing, with a Degree in Humour. If so, we want his prescription for a full-page chuckle to appear in each issue of The Sketch. In the past Dr. Studdy did it with his Bonzo, and Drs. Lawson Wood and Frank Reynolds with Gran'pop and the Bristle woods. There MUST be a new Doctor who can match these famous ...