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... TtC Freda Bruce Loclehart ONE of the embittered, paralysed heroes of The Men (London Pavilion) winds up a magnificent and painful tirade from his wheeled chair: And I don't want to take my proper place in society! Laughter is legitimate here and the smoothness with which grim humour has been used to relieve, without detracting from, the agony of the theme is one mark of the film's merit. ...

... D. I? Wyndham Lie wis FOLLOWING the announcement that a Punch- and- Judy show is to be one of the chief Festival Year attractions in the Garden of Joy, Park, the authorities might point for the benefit of foreign visitors, how this entertainment illustrates the British Way of Life, 1951 model. As yc probably know, the original Pulcinella of the Italian Comedy is a newborn lamb ...

... mBLl 66 SQ\JBAK Compiled by Jay Jay THE soldier asked for leave, so that he could get married. How long have you known the girl his officer asked. A week, was the reply. Well, my lad, that 's hardly long enough. I suggest that you wait a couple of months and then, if you still want to get married, I 'II give you leave. In two months the soldier was back, reminding his superior of his promise ...

... Oliver Stewart PROVIDED the Great Powers continue to find so much enjoyment in slinging mud at one another, there may be some hope that they will not start slinging harder and more jagged substances and then we may look forward to a varied and entertaining motoring year in 1951. Racing should give us more to think about and to talk about than ever before, because the B.R.M. ought to be making ...

... SOME PORTRAITS IN PRINT Being the lucubrations ot your most obedient scribe, Mr. Gordon Beckles LOOKING enviously over our shoulder at what we believe to be the happier yesterday is a weakness which some of us indulge in perhaps too freely, but I hold that at Christmas time it is reasonably pardonable. 1 nave been tasting in cold print some ot the fare on display in the last double- nought ...

... D II. Wyndham Lewis THERE is a song in praise of the Diplomatic Corps which runs (or rather trips) in this fashion: Boys of the Corps Diplomatique Are chic, alert, and sympatbique All their enormous glossy cars Have private bars. With non-committal shrugs and smiles They block the traffic up for miles, And in their merry eyes we see Immunity. T: s little matter of diplomatic immunity occi ed ...

... D. It. H jndham Lewis PENDING the birth of a new Socialist dance- culture in Russia, the youthful Reds of have been ordered to refrain from in overalls, flourishing a hammer-- a deviation hardly less bad form than he capitalist dances of America. One perceives in this ruling a priggishness which would have delelighted Robespierre. Wha the decorous and finicky Robespierre though ...

... frw/rt ISruvt' M^ovkhttrt MEMORY is sometimes merciful. When I came out of the Leicester Square Theatre thinking Highly Dangerous must come high among the silliest films of 1950, there was danger of forgetting horrors endured earlier in the year. Out of fairness, then, while refreshing my memory of the best and worst films of the out going year, I jotted down without difficulty nine other ...

... Summing Up Paul Holt 1950 turned out to be the Year of Canasta. Other things happened, of course. Baby Brumas turned bad-tempered. The French won all our classic races except the 2000 Guineas. There were Flying Saucers to be seen, and Boswell's Diary to be read. Sibelius celebrated his eighty-fifth birthday by a grand silence, and Bernard Shaw died in his ninety-fifth year for no other reason ...

... Motoring: Oliver Stewart IT is said-- and I confess that my own experience of making calls in the City of London bears this out-- that when the car is parked, the best place to leave it is under a No Waiting sign. It is argued that this is so for two reasons: first, that there will probably be room there, and, second, that the police are less likely to object. For similar reasons, it is ...

... SOME PORTRAITS IN PRINT Beino the lucubrations ol your most obedient scribe, Mr. Gordon Beckles IF anything be certain in this New Year of ours (which it is not) at least the end of 1951 should leave us better informed on the wisdom and folly of fairs. Down in the Waterloo Bridge Road, only a stroll from the Festivalof Britain site, they are giving us a taste of what fairs meant to London in ...