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... 7L D. B. Wyndham Lewis AN adventurous chap expressing a deter mination to sail for the China Seas to discover the hidden treasure of Captain Kidd, the eminent pirate, moved us to look up the Newgate Calendar. This improving work, alas, yields no hint of any cache in the course of what is undoubtedly the dullest pirate-story known tp man, not excluding the latest City prospectus. Except that he ...
... THE Earls of Orkney ultimately draw descent from the great and terrible house of Douglas; the first Earl was the fifth son of Anne, Duchess of Hamilton, from whom descends the present ducal house of Hamilton and Brandon, representatives of the ancient race of Douglas, Earls of Angus. ...
... SEVEN HUNDRED British racing pigeons released some time ago at Nantes are, at the time of writing, still missing from their Yorkshire coops, and it seems odd that among all the expert theories for their absence a very simple one has not yet been considered; namely the possibility that the birdies may be bored, pro tem., with Yorkshiremen. ...
... Douglas Sutherland I CALLED IN AT QUAGLINO'S THE other day to watch the final per formance of Jon Pertwee's highly successful tour of duty in cabaret. George Braund is the current attraction. Upstairs in the restaurant at Quag's a clientele of business men and the old school of West Enders dine and dance decorously to Felix King and watch an early cabaret, at 11.45 p.m. Downstairs, the Allegro ...
... _ All the Joys for Girls and Boys Every town-bred child needs, both physically and mentally, a complete change at least every few years a change of air, food and environment, a real break-away from traditional holiday habits. , the playground of Europe, is just he right choice for holidays for you and your family. Children receiveaspecial welcome; on Railways, Steamers and Alpine 'ostal ...
... drowns a Coronets JBs X. ...
... Performance Or Comfort? A FLEA, according to a famous essay by one of those distinguished scientific workers who put us all in our places, a flea, if scaled up to the size of an elephant, could never have its jumping power scaled up in proportion. Motorists are inclined to want the performance and manoeuvring power of the smallest vehicle with the capacity and comfort of the largest. When ...
... 6^/ovc* I jealousy by making his mother fall in love with a shameless pimp was surely the worst kind of sensationalism. Now, seeing Le Garfon Sauvage again at the New Gallery, not only the English title and sub-titles, but circumstances are changed. The first shock and it was a shock has been taken and the intervening months have not been so rich in films of quality that we can afford to be ...
... WE have moved far and fast beyond the agreeable and gentlemanly practice of senior commanders in the field confining their literary efforts to Official Dispatches and Letters Home to My Lady Wife. This, to me, is a matter for regret which grows deeper as the list of generals' books grows longer. I hold it sufficient that these gentlemen accept high honours for success or ignominy for failure. ...
... 2^ D. B. Wyndham Lewis WHILE skilfully restoring the decayed and rotted flags hanging in the Great Hall of Chelsea Hospital-- French flags cap tured in the Napoleonic wars, American flags captured in the American wars, and so forth-- the needlework experts apparently had to apply to French and American museums for certain details of original insignia and lettering; which might well have been ...
... 6 LET ME SEE HIS FACE' Robert Stewart Sherriffs THE candid, kindly, freakish countenance, of Maximilian Frances Mary Isidor Robes pierre now hangs, by a majority vote, high in the portrait gallery of Hell's angels. This pleasant voiced, small town French lawyer of I rish descent, with the well-cut clothes and the amusing knack of peeling an orange with one hand, was born in 1758. He quickly ...
... D. II. Wyndham Lewis WEARIED by unceasing prattle about the Rights-- never, oddly enough, the Duties --of Man, a very honest butcher named Legendre once offered the Jacobin Club boys in the Rue St. Honoré a little diversion during the Terror by undertaking to fillet on the spot any aristocrat they cared to serve up. We thought of this jolly fellow on reading about a group of teenage thinkers ...