... By Wyndham Robinson M When it says Bathing Dangerous one can't be too careful don't you think? Wyndham Robinson ...

... Cbt tfc- Anthony Eookmaii His Excellency (Princes) MR. ERIC PORTMAN wins a personal triumph; and if his playing is at variance with the facts supplied by the authors, Dorothy and Campbell Christie, so much the worse for the facts. A star actor is expected to make every effort to turn an unsympathetic into a sympathetic part. Why else did Irving ennoble Shylock? So far as the facts go, the ...

... R. C. Robertson-Glasgow Scoreboard ASCOT AGAIN Among the familiar faces I saw Lord Maroon at the Races, With green bowler hat, No collar, one spat, And plastic I Zingari braces. RELUCTANTLY, for my corns were already red-hot inside my fool-proof brown boots, I was taken round the paddock by Fruity Green-Polkinghorn, whose father was Governor of the Backward Islands, and, owing to a clerical ...

... THE Bath and West Show was held this year at Castle Bromwich, and the quality of exhibits was outstanding. Of those pictured here by Fred May, Ft. -Col. Sir C. W. Miles was Hon. Show Director, Ford Trent was on the Council, Mr. Erie J. Boston and Mr. W. Bellerby judged cattle and pigs, Mr. J err ard Hunt was a steward and Mr. J. G. Yardley the secretary. Mr. H. A. Benyon is Ford Fieutenant of ...

... '202 Piccadilly London IP. 1 Regent 2002 eP\:* for sports clothes Picture by courtesy of The New Yorker A s ft test of poise, shooting tiger from a Howdah behind a blase Mahout stands fairly high. And what is one wearing this year? In big game and in every sport down to clock-golf, our Sports Centre can give you the answer pat. And how central that Centre is You could throw a cricket- ball ...

... THIS year's Royal Tournament at Earl's Court was a jubilee occasion, and an unusually brilliant show was put on. Fred May depicts Major-Gen. Gascoigne the chairman, Col. Dyer vice-chairman, Capt. Boucher, R.N., Brig. Maxwell and G/Capt. Taylor, Services P.T. chiefs, of the Committee, and Major King the Secretary. W/Cdr. Parkin was i/c gatekeepers and seating, Lt.-Col. Binns steward of the ...

... at Dh- Anthony fookiiian Mister Roberts (Coliseum) WE associate the Coliseum's vast stage with the spectacle of easy love-making in a land of smiles where there is at least one Jill to every Jack. It is a shock to be confronted with the grimly towering super- structure of a United States cargo ship swarm- ing with sweating sailor men who have not set eyes on a Jill for a month of Sundays and ...

... SdDimKB Frtepfe fan PrM Bein^ the lucubrations of your moft obedient fcribe, Mr. Gordon Beckles, WE, Ernest Bevin, a Member of His Britannic Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, a Member of Parlia- ment, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, request and require in the Name of His Majesty all those whom it may concern to allow the bearer to pass freely without let ...

... D. B. Wyndham Lewis I DON'T think Samson and the Philistine Missingword would make a great appeal to the City, Missingword objected a member of the Court of Common Missingword Council, during the recent discussion on a Georgian statuary group in lead, said to be by John Van Nost, which has been suggested as the dominant feature of that £35,000 gar- den to be laid out near St. Paul's. This ...

... THE ANCHORITES'' DROPPED THEIR HOOK IN THE RIIST HARROIIR OE PICCADILLY ,?-r/VDf D, lH Wlth th,e. obiect °f promoting good fellowship among all associated with sea affairs, Jl the Anchorites is a dining club whose personnel includes officers of the R.N., R.N.R., R.N.V.R., Merchant Navy and members of Lloyd's who are directly connected with the sea. The President, Rear- Admiral Arthur Mall, ...

... GRIN AND BEAR IT By HARCOURT HARCOURT ...

... ctt Accolade (Aldwych) Anthony Cookinan THERE is the art of drama and there is the art of the stage. The difference between them is very vividly illustrated by Mr. Emlyn Williams's new play. As drama Accolade is negligible; as a series of exciting scenes, strung together for the stage by adroit contrivance and by acting of luscious intensity, it is worth every penny you have paid for your ...