... tan IPrtrte Inn Print Beinc* the lucubrations of your moft obedient fcribe, Mr. Gordon Beckles There is quite an Edwardian ring to the intelligence that His Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs has been enjoying the waters at Evian while the Chancellor of the Exchequer is taking a cure not so far away. The golden days of the Continental spas were also the gilded days of English ...

... 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 ...