... The Point of No Retreat At The Pictures INCREASINGLY it becomes fashionable to speak of films as finished. Admit tedly Hollywood lends some colour to alarms of its own decline and fall by conscious and unconscious identification with ancient Rome, on ...

... THE mentality of a soldier was being tested by a psychiatrist. Do you ever hear voices without being able to tell who is speaking or j where the voices come from he asked. j Ves, sir, replied the soldier. Ah, said the examiner wisely. I And when does ...

... private party being held to-night, and its friday the 13th. The card might come in useful to theatre box-office managers. Speaking for myself I am never discommoded by dining in an almost empty restaurant. One should be able to dine all the better. I. ...

... sahibs, is a timely crack at a few thousand of you who '11 be longing to join the City revellers, did form permit not to speak of all the Civil Servants Class I we can see from here, gnawing the handles of their exquisitely-rolled umbrellas. Fi done ...

... Chesterton story when somebody at dinner mentioned the Cafd Anglais in Paris. Over rated place,' said a certain Colonel Pound, speaking, by the look of him, for the first time for some months.) The Colonel's fellow-guests were probably as dumbfounded as the ...

... shabby rooms and collapsing in tears midway, that a perfect Act III finale and a dozen curtain-calls are handed them, so to speak, surrounded by jam on a silver salver. Last time we saw this done in style was in Reynaldo Hahn's operetta, Brummell, which ...

... WHISKY It speaks volumes for your good taste Jf Much has been written in praise of Scotch Whisky as a drink above all others. To appreciate fully its delightful qualities you cannot do better than call for Black White Here is a Scotch that speaks volumes ...

... receptionist. Yes too easily moved. LONG ago three hermits lived in a cave and spent all their days staring at a wall, never speaking at all. One day a horse ran past the entrance. Six months later one of the hermits mumbled: That was a nice brown horse ...

... faint-hearted one to join in what looked apt to turn into a vulgar brawl; but Darius never turned a hair, in a manner of speaking, and won! like a very good colt by a comfortable length from Ferriol, who was only second choice to Damelot in the French ...

... Distillers speaks volumes I >r your good taste vluch has been written in praise of Scotch Vhisky as a drink above all others. To appreciate tilly its delightful qualities you cannot do better ian call for Black White Here is a cotch that speaks volumes for ...

... food because they liked wines, which she thought a sure sign. On the subject of our coffee she was masterly. She said that, speaking for herself, she likes tea. Someone present suggested that the secret of American coffee was the fact it was Brazilian. I ...

... the waist By the neck, I think, Mopesbury, like a bottle. I see. I take it an offer of matrimony is de rigueur from, so to speak, the kickoff Well, no. Not nowadays. This was certainly how Slicker Gripthorne got that set of unique Etruscan vases (Gallery ...