... Oliver Stewart RACING between privately-owned railway locomotives might give trains a reason for continued existence, but as trans port vehicles they are well on the way to the mortuary. Nor are ships indispensable for getting about the world, though they have their value as last strongholds of civilised living. But recent events have shown that you can go anywhere and that neither trains nor ...

... A^kriL/Zu. Freda Bruce Lochhart AMERICANS generally are age-group con scious, and Hollywood has its own particular age problems and growing pains. For twenty years, most of the leading stars have been growing old under our eyes; very gradually, very gracefully, almost imper ceptibly, but none the less inevitably. When one or two glamour girls first became grandmothers in private life, the ...

... D. It. H jndham Lewis PENDING the birth of a new Socialist dance- culture in Russia, the youthful Reds of have been ordered to refrain from in overalls, flourishing a hammer-- a deviation hardly less bad form than he capitalist dances of America. One perceives in this ruling a priggishness which would have delelighted Robespierre. Wha the decorous and finicky Robespierre though ...

... LET ME SEE HIS FACE' Robert Stewart Sherriffs THE English family of Colley settled in Ireland in the mid-sixteenth century: the named changed to Wesley in the seventeenth, and in 1769 a younger son, Arthur, was born to Garrett Wesley, Earl of Mornington, in Dublin, but whether on April 29th or May 1st as the record has it, is as mysterious a circumstance as how the name eventually became ...

... A Ttc TcZ-fu* c*> Freda Brtice Lochhart THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH THE WELL HUNTED C. B. DE MILLE for over three de cades has made Hollywood his fair ground. One of the founders of the film city, he has with happy exuberance made a circus of whatever came his way: Nero, the Crusades, Buffalo Bill or the Old Testament. Vulgar, garish. monstrous and absurd, his films have been redeemed by an ...

... GROG-SHIP By Roy Davis ...

... Bein^ the lucubrations of your inoft obedient fcribe, Mr. Gordon Beckles PAINTERS often possess a gift for writing excellent prose-- a gift which professional writers are apt to find disconcerting. Whether this springs from an instinctive sense of form and rhythm, a feeling for selection, or merely because they write only when they feel like it, all this is debatable. Augustus John is master ...

... MOST playgoers would cite Dame Edith Evans's Millamant in The Way Of The World as the nonpareil of wit in the theatre of our time. It needs a great and courageous actress to venture the part again, and a producer of like qualities. In Pamela Brown and John Giel- gud it seems very likely that the team has been found, and to read the announcement of the winter season at the Lyric, Hammersmith, ...

... 6 Frvdu Mtruce Lnckhtiwt ALL our film memories would be much poorer without their records of great acting. Thanks to very primitive film photography I have had glimpses of Duse, Bernhardt and Réjane; as thanks to the gramo phone I have heard hints of Caruso and Chaliapin. Short even of great acting, the cinema is a veritable museum of good acting to which none have contributed more treasures ...

... D. II. Wyndham Lewis ROLLICKING Festival Year propaganda in the United States by the Come-to-Britain boys, promising tourists a whirl of love, life, laughter, and unstinted lashings of ''famous British delicacies''-- including Colchester oysters all through the summer-- is likely to have unfortunate consequences for the Race's moral reputation. as Sir Ernest Benn was pointing out the other day ...

... Hunt bar ycr party Helen Burke WITH meat costing the high price it does, we cannot any longer take a chance on a dish which is new to us, unless we really believe in it. For me, one of the most refreshing and quickly prepared meat dishes is Hamburgers. They must be all meat seasoned, of course and nothing else. Disregard any recipes which give you breadcrumbs, because these absorb the natural ...

... D. B. Wyndham Lewis SUPERCILIOUS professional comment on one kind of salute the Minister of Defence gave the troops he was reviewing the other day is still rife, and seems to us misplaced. Touching the brim of the old billycock with the forefinger (like a railway-porter, sniffed one critic) is less tiring than constantly doffing it. And anyway it was raining hard. And anyway the boy is not ...