... rjConclovi cJimellalit THE Old Vic controversy has broken out again in mass resignations. The rights and wrongs of the case have not as yet appeared, but there is one aspect which particularly merits attention in view of the fact that this public body has in its time lost a considerable sum of public money. The Governors consist of twenty-one persons and among the list it is difficult to ...

... cJdondon cJdimeliqbt ONE of the Festival attractions is the Tele cinema. It has a screen slightly smaller than the standard animated kinematograph, and reproduces on it televised events. The effect is flat, apparently under-developed and of interest pri marily to TV enthusiasts. But that is not all. The Telecinema is also show ing full colour stereoscopic films with stereophonic sound. In the ...

... D. B. Wyndliam Levris BROODING, not without gentle melancholy, on that recent ceremonial river-progress of the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, in the drabbest kind of launch, we thought of the same spectacle in Canaletto's time; the sparkling Thames, the stately shipping, the noblemen's barges, nay, the great State barge of his Lord ship himself, rapt from him by the City boys many years ago; ...

... by HELEN BURKE DELICATESSEN, SAYS MY DICTION ary, means confectionery, sweets, but I never translated it like that. To me it meant various salads, roll mops and other herrings, gherkins and many (chiefly German) sausages. But a delicatessen shop or department now sells many other foods, and at the recent Delicatessen Exhibition in London (the first of its kind), it was pleasing to see so ...

... p ALL ROUNDER NO. 1 HORACE, that smug and corpulent genius, tells of a Roman citizen who used to sit alone in an empty amphitheatre of classical design and watch the acting of non existent Plays-- he believed himself to be spectator and hearer of wonderful Tragedies. In those open-air days, it was easy to slip in and enjoy three hours of sweet-damn-nothing. In these more realistic times, ...

... 22, D. It. Hyndham Lewis WHY so many married ladies have played the part of Peter Pan on the London stage since 1904 is no mystery, we venture to suggest to a critic mumbling about this rather querulously. The Race notoriously loves to see married ladies bouncing about the stage disguised as boys, in pantomime or otherwise. It produces a cosy feeling, a chap was telling us; a feeling that ...

... D. B. Uyndham Lewis FOR the benefit of visitors to the Wellington Museum at Apsley House, due to open next week, we venture a theory concerning that ever-baffling statue by Canova of Napoleon Bonaparte in the nude, if still in its old position at the foot of the staircase. Our theory is that Napoleon, who-- like Folies-Bergère showgirls and Rodin's be Penseur-- had removed all his clothes in ...

... HUGH HUNT'S production of Julius Casar at the Old Vic cannot be faulted on the grounds of elocution. The sound and the fury of the mob and the orators were deafening. But even a cast of forty players can look sparce if it is allowed to rush around haphazard on a stage as vast as that at the Royal Victoria Hall in the Waterloo Road. By contrast in this uneven affair William f Squire conjured up ...

... THE Oliviers' change of plans brings two major London managements into collabora tion. They are H. M. Tennent, who have for several years presented the plays of Terence Rattigan, and Laurence Olivier Productions, who preside over the work of the Oliviers. The new comedy, The Sleeping Prince, will open at the St. James's Theatre early in May, after the season of Italian plays ends. Olivier, ...

... P. It. Wyiidliam Lewis AS if our New Elizabethans don't get enough adventure already out of coshing old ladies, a minx in a Sunday paper has been urging the Race at large to wake up and rove hither and thither in search of hidden treasure, Westward -ho and tralala. It was quite clear to us that behind that lavender-bush Wendy Darling had her tongue firmly in her cheek, the saucy little rogue. ...

... Becher of Brook Sabretache BECHER never rode the winner of the Grand National, but none of the other brilliant performers who have ridden in that great steeple chase during its long history have written their names in bigger capital letters than he. For the generality of people who go to Aintree, Becher's Brook just means the National. Yet big and very formidable as it is, you have no need to ...

... The Itoyal Navy's Air Problem WHEN the inadequacy of naval aircraft is under discussion, as it was the other day in the House of Lords, I am obliged to retell my oldest story. A new amphibian air craft, built to Admiralty requirements, arrived one day over an aerodrome where I was engaged as a test pilot and, as it circled prior to landing, I noticed near the nose of the hull an enormous ...