... R. C. Robertson-Glasgow THE sales are almost over; we return to organised and symmetrical field-sports. But, before we settle down with awe and reverence to the nineteenth round of the F.A. Cup, an interesting report has reached me from Osric E. Jugg, the only wicket-keeper who has ever let 24 Byes in one Over and ridden a green tricycle down the first fairway at St. Andrews. He went recently ...

... D B. Wyndham Lewis IN dismal Gunpowder Alley, Shoe Lane, E.C.4, where they now propose to stick up a tablet to the Cavalier poet Lovelace, who died there, there is nothing whatever to see. Our advice to the romantic is, therefore, to turn their backs on it and to contemplate the towering Palazzo Beaverbrook opposite, built largely of pure glass. J lough not so aesthetically satisfying as the ...

... R. C. Robertson-Glasgow ON a recent trip to Paris pour le Rugbee Futbal, it was surprising, yet reassuring, that the first man I saw in France was my pin-up comedian, Groucho Marx. No one had told me he'd be about and yet there he stood, on the quay at Calais, disguised as a porteur, wearing a bus-driver's hat, an engine- driver's overalls, and a come-to-mother smile. The other portorial ...

... -by STRUB E Waiter! The wine of our country for my friend the President That's all right sir and it's on the house ...

... (bfr flfc. 'tkirjfi: Flowers lor the Living (Duchess) Auihoiiv lotilniinti THEATRE managers are perhaps more alert than they are reputed to be, but they have their curious lapses. They will sometimes allow an obvious opportunity to go begging and then unexpectedly make a wild snatch at its retreating coat tails. Two years ago this piece, tried out at the little New Lindsey Theatre, made a ...

... P. B. Wyndham Lewis HAVING sufficiently admired the springlike frolickings of the Maestro Wysard (better known as the bonniest J. P. in Berk shire) on this page you might care to know the secret of it. The whole performance is based not on nonchalance but nerves. Spring begins officially in Sussex, as you probably know, when the Old Woman lets the cuckoo out of her basket at Heathfield Fair. ...

... Cbt ?fc- Home Ai Seven Wriiilliam'*) Anthony Cookman IF Sir Ralph Richardson must now and then leave the Peer Gynts, the Falstaffs and the Uncle Vanyas to their own highly exacting affairs, he is nowhere more welcome than in one of Mr. R. C. Sherriff's plays, doing there what he can do on his head but do better than any other living actor. Mr. Sherriff is, as we know, very sound on ...

... Cbt 1&s^ Mr. (Garrick) Anllionv km an I HAD been told before I went to the Garrick that this was a minor Bridie. In an unimportant sense my discriminating friends were right. Yet I found entertainment that was vastly more satisfying than their strict classification had led me to expect. One or two of the scenes may fairly be called major Bridie. If the minor characters are treated with ...

... Fretlit It fit of I. istiilm it LAUGHTER in the wrong place is a perverse form of amusement. Of course it may be argued that an unintentionally funny film is much more amusing than one that is not quite as funny as it means to be. On that basis the malicious may rind Orson Welles's Black Magic London Pavilion) even more hilarious than Preston Sturges's The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend ...

... - -by Mallet 44 What the dickens do you mean girl 4 Came to pieces in your hands 904NI5 ...

... ■fame f rtrts Im Print Bein^ the lucubrations of your moft obedient fcribe, Mr. Gordon Beckles by STRUBE PRIMROSES, violets, hyacinths, daffodils, cyclamen, narcissi-- I seem never to have seen so many flowers arrive in the London shops with such a rush or quite so early in the year. Passing by one window ablaze with colour I recalled it empty during one of the drabber episodes of the late ...

... P. B. Wpidham Lewis UNLIKE Napoleon, who found time to re organise the Opéra during his 1812 cam paign, Field-Marshal Errol Flynn, who conquered Burma some time ago in that ever memorable rush of gorgeous Technicolor, seems to have done nothing about reorganising Bur mese exports. Hence, owing to lack of essential teak, that current depression in the British sailing-boatbuilding industry ...