... 5L D. B. Wyndham Lewis BRITANNIA (or somebody) destroying Lust, Civic Consciousness overthrowing Envy, Abundance and Harmony presenting Sanitary Engineering to James I, Progress handing Chastity to Fortnum & Mason-- truly the great allegorical Rubens frescos from Whitehall, lately cleaned, restored, and on view at Kensington Palace, are a feast of glowing opulence to any reasonable eve. As the ...

... SOME PORTRAITS IN PRINT Beina the lucubrations ol your most obedient scribe, Mr. Gordon Beckles HE was almost the first man with whom I talked on the first morning of the year. I have known him for over forty years. We used to go to the same children's parties. He was a mild sort of fellow then, and still is. One of his hobbies has been the painting of flowers in water-colours. We passed the ...

... Being the lucubrations of your most obedient scribe, Mr. Gordon Beckles I HAVE not observed the phenomenon before but I am assured that it occurs in the first few days of January every year. Hardly had the last holiday bells rung out, the cost of being festive totted-up, the gay shop windows become darkened, than the travel bureaux invaded the newspapers. We were invited to send at once for a ...

... Frt'tlti ISi-m-i' M .iii-lilt a ft I' TOO, am of the theatre, says the dramatic critic in All About Eve. In it I toil not, neither do I spin. I am indispen sable to the theatre. I am a critic. A film critic's indispensability to the cinema is not for me to judge. But he does come to feel a certain identification with the cinema. When I hear the cinema vilified as the worse- than-opiate of ...

... D. B. Wyndham Lewis I WENT through Portsmouth Town by mis take, explained the driver of a passenger- train to Waterloo which dashed through that station recently, taking the crowd on the platform aback so completely that for once it forgot to cheer. And that's all there is to it, added the driver to the Press boys, rather sharply. A less testy type, if you remember Three Men in a Uoat, was ...

... D. B. Wyndham Lewis BACK to the grand old Etonian game! is the slogan we suggest to British mothers moaning, as recently, over the soaring cost of public school games, their numerous adjuncts, costumes, and accessories. A simpler sport forged the heroes of Badajoz and Waterloo, Boodle's and Almack's, if you recall Gray's nostalgic cry at the sight of Eton's distant towers: What idle progeny ...

... Beina the lucubrations of your most obedient scribe, Mr. Gordon Beckles KNOWING just where to place oneself when looking at pictures is an art bordering on the histrionic. You can peer closely, with an expert frown; or you can stand back, with arms folded, and nod your head. Or clap your hand to it, if you wish to appear deeply moved. From where I am placed about a mile as the crow flies the ...

... A FASCINATING TOUR IN THE LOVELY RHIN ELAND GLORIOUS TYROL You can enjoy a delightful and interesting summer tour through the lovely Rhineland and the glorious mountain scenery of the Austrian Tyrol, at a cost of only 29 GNS. FOR 14 DAYS Inclusivechargecovers good accommodationand excellent food also travel from London back to London. Special trains fromChannel coast with Dancing Carattached. ...

... 1 RQ-UAY 1 RQA1 The Continen t Comes Home Laze at one of the finest Hotels in Europe, in a semi-tropical situation a few hours from your door, ijo figjLd 'd! 'superb bedrooms s acres of grounds fronting the sea own tennis and squash, golf nearby. .all the comforts and smiling service of a famous Hotel. Write for brochure D. The ENGLISH HOTEL in the MEDITERRANEAN MANNER ...

... JfTk ^cxfcLc* I'ffilii Its-lift' Ltffli/iiiri f ITALIAN films, after their startling post-war success, seemed to relapse into mediocrity and sometimes nearly self-caricature. It is pleasant to welcome again an Italian picture with the very virtues which, charmed us in Bicycle Thieves or To Live in Peace. Sunday in August (Academy) is the first feature film to be made by Luciano Emmer. Emmer ...

... SOME PORTRAITS IN PRINT Beina the lucubrations of your most obedient scribe, Mr. Gordon Beckles ONE of the most beautiful of women went to a showing of the new spring fashion collections, which so brighten grim January with visions of a world of mimosa, primroses, silks, blue skies and perfumed breezes. I have always thought that black is the most becoming colour for women, she said. ...

... Paul Holt IN the Roy Speer case at the Old Bailey, the Recorder, Sir Gerald Dodson, said in his summing-up: These people are musicians, and live largely in dreams. It is their business to fabricate nonsense to entertain people, and a very valuable contribution to civilised society it is, and they live in a world of their own. The point is vital. Are actors human beings Yes, certainly. They ...