... 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 ...

... BY HELEN BURKE BEFORE THE REAL BUSINESS OF preparing for Christmas begins, there is time to make the pudding and the cake and get them out of the way. These days many people buy their puddings and mince meat, but one is more than justified in making the pudding, at least. Mincemeat is another matter. Un less it is stored in an extremely cold place there is always the possibilitv that it will ...

... Hubert Steicart Sherriffs MR. CHURCHILL, as Lord Birkenhead ...

... D. II. Wyndham Lewis THOSE two mysterious stone figures crouching on tall pillars outside the main entrance to the Royal Institute of British Architects in Portland Place are said to represent Prudence and Chastity agonising over British Architec ture. The gold medal just awarded by the RIBA to the eminent colleague who designed the Institute, and is now living in California, may be a belated ...

... DINING II I T I. BKKEKSTVFF THERE was some criticism recently of the flying over of foods and wines from Paris for a French Film Festival in London. For the simple reason that the French happened to be the hosts and were paying the piper, I cannot wholly agree with the criti cisms; but of the alleged flying of the wines chosen, with the wine-waiters to serve them, I am entirely at one with the ...

... D. B. H jndhnni Lewis INSTEAD of tapping gently on the window pane at nightfall, as etiquette demands, and maybe making a funny face at his wife, a homing rover in Arizona took a crack with the old rooty-toot-toot through the curtains (vide Press) at his successor in the home-circle and nearly blew the chignon off his lawful mate. This brisk break with routine should stimulate the poetry-boys, ...

... Sabretache IF we were all lovers of wisdom we would treat winners and losers just the same, and no more about it, and no back answers; but as we have yet to find the fabled Philosopher's Stone, we con tinue to cuss our losses and grouse because we have only had a fiver, instead of a tenner, on that thing that won running away at Kempton, Newmarket, Newbury, Plumpton and what-not last Saturday. ...

... Do I imagine that the sweet course is coming into its own again, or is it because I myself am a little more interested in it? Perhaps men who, for the most part, are fond of sweets (and not generally concerned with figure problems) are responsible? When eggs are at their best, as they are now, I like to make Crime Renversee au Caramel which, in most restaurants, is shortened to Creme Caramel. ...