... t a D. B. Wyndham Lewis HAVING a light sigh of relief at the recent assurance that the Fellowship of Musicians has not dissociated itself from the policy of the Musicians' Union in the matter of higher wage-claims, we nevertheless thought it a shame to disturb the rapt spiritual communion between Albert Hall audiences and the music-boys with these rather materialistic side-issues. Ii the Pitti ...

... 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 ...

... Frda Kruct* M^wkluirt HAVING heard my first talkies in America, I well remember how flatly English micro phone vowels fell on my ears when I came home to find British films also talking. bince then the English accent problem has been aggravated. Admittedly the B.B.C. has done much to inure us to the large range of off-centre speech straining away from its native purity towards a precarious, ...

... /no Little Bays And Cinderella Paul Halt IT would have been all right if I had kept my mouth shut. There was no call for me to do anything. But a man, when confronted by more than a half-dozen ravening children, somehow feels compelled to boast, to show off, to prink at the thought of superior experience and to pride at pleasure to come. He says, in fact, with a wink: Don't you believe ...

... Oliver Stewart DIGGING in the garden has been ingeniously justified on the grounds that it puts up the flavour of a double whisky. If the flavour of the wines of France could be put up, the Monte Carlo Rally, which should be in the news when these notes appear, ought to do it. There is the requisite toil and sweat in the road section. Discomfort and privations are suc ceeded by luxury and ...

... P. B. Wpidham Lewis UNLIKE Napoleon, who found time to re organise the Opéra during his 1812 cam paign, Field-Marshal Errol Flynn, who conquered Burma some time ago in that ever memorable rush of gorgeous Technicolor, seems to have done nothing about reorganising Bur mese exports. Hence, owing to lack of essential teak, that current depression in the British sailing-boatbuilding industry ...

... Fretlit It fit of I. istiilm it LAUGHTER in the wrong place is a perverse form of amusement. Of course it may be argued that an unintentionally funny film is much more amusing than one that is not quite as funny as it means to be. On that basis the malicious may rind Orson Welles's Black Magic London Pavilion) even more hilarious than Preston Sturges's The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend ...

... '202 Piccadilly London IP. 1 Regent 2002 eP\:* for sports clothes Picture by courtesy of The New Yorker A s ft test of poise, shooting tiger from a Howdah behind a blase Mahout stands fairly high. And what is one wearing this year? In big game and in every sport down to clock-golf, our Sports Centre can give you the answer pat. And how central that Centre is You could throw a cricket- ball ...

... D. B. Wyndham Lewis I DON'T think Samson and the Philistine Missingword would make a great appeal to the City, Missingword objected a member of the Court of Common Missingword Council, during the recent discussion on a Georgian statuary group in lead, said to be by John Van Nost, which has been suggested as the dominant feature of that £35,000 gar- den to be laid out near St. Paul's. This ...

... Bein^ the lucubrations of your inoft obedient fcribe, Mr. Gordon Beckles PAINTERS often possess a gift for writing excellent prose-- a gift which professional writers are apt to find disconcerting. Whether this springs from an instinctive sense of form and rhythm, a feeling for selection, or merely because they write only when they feel like it, all this is debatable. Augustus John is master ...

... GRIN AND BEAR IT By HARCOURT HARCOURT ...

... Frtulu ttrucf Lockhart EVERY crisis, and every solution ol a crisis, breeds its own disease. When we cut out American films altogether because we could not afford them, British films ailed and failed until an injection of Hollywood virus was needed to stimulate competition and keep cinemas open. Precedent does not suggest that Mr. Rank's latest prescription of Anglo-American produc tion as a ...