... A VERA EONG LINE FOR MR. COWARD Youngman Carter MR. NOEL COWARD, ever a student of fashion, has retired to Jamaica to complete Part II. of his autobiography to be called Future Indefinite, and to memorise the very long lines of his role in the revival of The Apple Cart. As King Magnus he will have one speech that goes on for nearly half-an-hour, which is probably a record for the contemporary ...

... Tripping Along Bg the River THE little Watergate Theatre, now resplen dently redecorated, is presenting Set to Music, the best thing in intimate revues for many a night. The cast is headed by John Glyn- Jones, a child of revue, as he himself points out, although this is his first appearance in the genre, and his companions are all equally witty and sometimes much more decorative. As was to be ...

... D B. Wyndham Lewis IN dismal Gunpowder Alley, Shoe Lane, E.C.4, where they now propose to stick up a tablet to the Cavalier poet Lovelace, who died there, there is nothing whatever to see. Our advice to the romantic is, therefore, to turn their backs on it and to contemplate the towering Palazzo Beaverbrook opposite, built largely of pure glass. J lough not so aesthetically satisfying as the ...

... I HAVE hitherto found Messrs. Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis quite unbear able and, being essentially of a kindly disposition, this has caused me much regret: I don't like not to like people. It is, therefore, with the greatest pleasure that I proclaim that in Three Ring Circus Mr. Lewis, at least, can well be borne. He is the one with the coconut-matting hair and the corncrake voice, who usually ...

... TRANSLATORS as a general rule are sad, pallid men with weary smile Govern ment issue spectacles, and a hunted air Not so Miss Lucienne Hill, who is slim, dark and handsome, and has the clearest indications of her Irish-French ancestry. ...

... Separate Tables Bill For Two RATTIGAN, now our senior practising playwright, has a new work which starts its maiden voyage late next month. Separate Tables is another double bill, but unlike The Browning Version and Harlequinade it concerns the same characters in each play. The setting is a Bournemouth boarding house and it is interesting to speculate on Mr. Rattigan's methods of obtaining ...

... BY SIRIOL HUGH-JONES IF POETS CAN WRITE PROSE AT ALL, they often write it with such an edge, speed, lift and grace as should put the professional prose-writers into the sulk; for months. Laurie Lee's Cider With Rosie, a book of memories of his childhood in the 20s in a Cotswold village, is so beautifully written that I read it at a gallop and in terror lest a page should sag, the delight and ...

... 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, ...