... IT has been my private fate to see Katharine Hep burn films in odd places. A Bill of Divorce ment, for example, I encountered in a dangerous little palace in Chartres; and The Philadelphia Story was one of the dozen epics which rotated round the sultry fleapits of Bagh dad during one phase of the war. It was scratched, mutilated, and the reels were shown either out of order or upside down or ...

... SOME PORTRAITS IN PRINT Being the lucubrations oF your most obedient scribe, Mr. Gordon Beckles NOTHING about women's dress is more fanciful than the times of the year chosen for the unveiling of its secrets. On a broiling August day a woman can shiver excitedly with delight at the prospect of tweeds and heavy woollens; while, when shivering with authentic cold, she can prepare her mind to be ...

... LADY JOAN HOPE, younger daughter of the late Marquess of Linlithgow, whose engagement was announced recently, derives from a French original. Her ultimate ancestor was John de Hope, said to have come from France in the train of Madeleine de Valois when she married James V. of Scotland. For two generations the family prospered in business, then the great-grandson of the man from France became ...

... 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 ...

... IK II. IV yn dli a in Lewis EVER since the airlines began the new fight with British Railways for the Continental passenger-traffic we've been waiting to see a familiar letter to the Press (Sir,-- It seems high time that the once-mooted project for a Channel Tunnel) Not yet. But it will come, Oscar, it will come. It was early in 1882, we discover, that the Race last became really excited ...

... SOME PORTRAITS IN PRINT Beina the lucubrations of your most obedient scribe, Mr. Gordon Beckles THE London club became in the nineteenth century a symbol of a society in which man was the happy dictator. The club was a place sacred to man. It was a refuge first from thoughts of domesticity, and then, as the years passed, from invading woman herself. Viewing the landscape between Pall Mall and ...

... iiiBas'siii Decadence! MR. CHRISTOPHER MAYHEW, M.P., who was an in vited guest, walked out during the first European performance of the film Quo Vadis because he found the Coliseum scenes re volting. He later said My wife and I were in sulted by being invited to see this film. The moral and aesthetic standards of the film fall little short ol Nero's own. The United States would do well to ...

... D. IS. Wyndham Lewis A NEWS-STORY about a haunted pre-fab house at Bristol, illustrating a curious and rather deplorable new tendency in ghosts, recalls the experience of a chap we knew who, while living in a very expensive West End hotel some years ago, was haunted by the three Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne. The hotel-people were a trifle dubious when he wanted the floors up. ...

... S---- --- yvvvvvwyv. THERE was a big field when the Whaddon Chase met at Shorndown. It was a cold morning and followers were more than grateful for the hospitality of the master and Mrs. Drabble. A brace of foxes were found in the rough place below Shorndown, and one was quickly killed. The other led hounds away at a great pace by High Havens and the aerodrome to Wing Spinneys. Getting him ...

... COMPLEXITY and expense are called the two primary aspects ol film making by Lindsay Anderson in his book Making a Film (Allen and Unwin; 17s. 6d.). Mr. Anderson's book is itself a testimony to the tyranny of box- office. For he was formerly the editor of Sequence, the quarterly which, like most attempts to be serious about the cinema, failed to support itself beyond the recently lamented ...

... llfv /I* CONTRAST is the spice of life; as the tourist remarked, wearing a black clerical wide awake on top of a white yachting suit with a thunder-and-lightning cummerbund. So, when I want a little spice, I call up to that inward eye, which is the bliss of solitude, two fellow-men: a Little Man at the Fun-Fair, and a Fat Man on the First Tee. The Little Man looked as if he had spent years ...

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