... Nativity play. I was invited to go down to criticise this event by the B.B.C.'s Robert MacDermott, whose son, Derry, was due to speak' his first lines on any stage, and I went quite innocently, not knowing what was in store for me. It turned out to be a cross ...

... Actually American children up to 12 are far I tougher and more sophisticated than any Fleet I Street boy can hope to be not to speak of the I female high-school type aged 14--17, the contents I of whose vanity-bags would sometimes shock I even the night n ...

... quantity of manuscript letters now in Edinburgh, my design has been that Mrs. Carlyle should write her own story; but, though she speaks for herself, as it were, naturally she will be the Jane Welsh Carlyle whom I have enjoyed and loved. IN chipping away spare ...

... Rees, that day, was playing with a club-member whose skill at golf was sufficient and respectable if left to itself, so to speak, but was reduced, by contact and comparison with the maestro, to a travesty, a demmed outline of the game. I watched Rees putting ...

... new good-looking actress, Patricia Wayne, who will be better still if she can learn not to open her mouth so long before speaking a number of pleasing small-part performers and a most mercifully agreeable background of the English countryside. There is ...

... rare Englishmen who speak perfect French, that the natives are less affable and drive harder bargains. So there are, after all, some ad vantages, if only financial, in the horrid sounds made by the ordinary English when they try to speak French. Walkerley ...

... delightfully. None of the women who have been at some time implicated in the joyous overture of the Duke's life has a part to speak of, but only Miss Valerie Taylor really needs one for purposes of the story, and she performs prodigies of brick, making without ...

... AN old acquaintance of the writer's, let us call him Herringbone, who was also a prospective Parliamentary candidate, was speaking: If we are to put this country on her feet again, we must improve the status quo. What is the status quo demanded a heckler ...

... Of quaint apparel for a half-spoilt boy And, even worse the umbrella spread To weather-fend the Celtic Herdsman's head All speak of manners with'ring to the root (etc.). Hence it is not surprising that a recent traveller found the Highland Gael sneezing ...

... ad-pleasure- of sailing in great ship Aquitania thinking repeat thinking to-day of her- passing and nobody can ask more. Speaking as an ex-passenger, one might as well be invited to weep over the Savoy. Americans are much better at shooting this line ...

... acid. The Welch in Pennsylvania similarly look like the Welch in Cardiganshire, but are essentially Elks, psychologically speaking. We once urged a prominent Welch intellectual in New York, then editing The Commonweal, to persuade the Welch National Gorsedd ...

... THE ABOMINABLE CLUBMAN By Wyndham Robinson Set the wireless sloiver will you the chap speaks too fast Wyndham Robinson ...