... Nativity play. I was invited to go down to criticise this event by the B.B.C.'s Robert MacDermott, whose son, Derry, was due to speak' his first lines on any stage, and I went quite innocently, not knowing what was in store for me. It turned out to be a cross ...

... Actually American children up to 12 are far I tougher and more sophisticated than any Fleet I Street boy can hope to be not to speak of the I female high-school type aged 14--17, the contents I of whose vanity-bags would sometimes shock I even the night n ...

... Ambassador. He showed that you can fly an aeroplane satisfactorily through the automatic pilot-- which then becomes, strictly speaking, semi automatic. For big transport machines the automatic pilot is a standard fitting and, in the future, power-operated ...

... this absurd medley is not only changeless-- it is the most effortlessly popular of all theatrical shows and needs nobody to speak or write a good word for it. If you like pantomime, all well and good; if you don't, pantomime can get on without you. The ...

... intelligence of British juries are hearten- ing. One thing does again and again appear: the more spectacular trials, vulgarly speaking, have not always been the most interesting legally. Here we have, rescued from oblivion, a number of cases which, because ...

... the very few English actresses (Greer Garson is Irish) to settle down as a Holly wood star speaking a genuinely international language, valid in all English-speaking countries. Miss Lupino is not a particularly subtle or polished actress. But she has inherited ...

... nt, was not then a very popular species. The main reason for the hate was because it gave a junior officer the chance of speaking his mind about even a G.O.C., to make no mention of a Prime Minister. Those times, I feel sure, were some of Mr. Churchill's ...

... Bermuda is the aristocrat of sterling resorts. The island is the supreme holiday-in-the-sun playground for half the English- speaking world and the climate is now at its best. Three airlines link it to London and New York and the Queens are regular visitors ...

... quantity of manuscript letters now in Edinburgh, my design has been that Mrs. Carlyle should write her own story; but, though she speaks for herself, as it were, naturally she will be the Jane Welsh Carlyle whom I have enjoyed and loved. IN chipping away spare ...

... Rees, that day, was playing with a club-member whose skill at golf was sufficient and respectable if left to itself, so to speak, but was reduced, by contact and comparison with the maestro, to a travesty, a demmed outline of the game. I watched Rees putting ...

... new good-looking actress, Patricia Wayne, who will be better still if she can learn not to open her mouth so long before speaking a number of pleasing small-part performers and a most mercifully agreeable background of the English countryside. There is ...

... rare Englishmen who speak perfect French, that the natives are less affable and drive harder bargains. So there are, after all, some ad vantages, if only financial, in the horrid sounds made by the ordinary English when they try to speak French. Walkerley ...