... Being, the lucubrations of your most obedient scribe, Mr. Gordon Beckles THERE was talk of getting away for some fresh air for the week-end, possibly to a selected spot high on the Chilterns, with the Sussex Downs running a close second. The land of the Chilterns has always seemed to me the wildest stretch of country near London, perhaps because of its lofty remoteness. Although there are ...

... fiW Mirucv M^nchtnuri TO call Yvonne Printemps and Pierre Fresnay in The Paris Waltz (Rialto) older and wiser than any of the other characters in the week's films is a compliment not intended as back-handed. Certainly Madame Printemps no longer looks exactly like the boy Mozart who capti vated London and Paris twenty-three years ago in Sacha Guitry's tender little play with music by Reynaldo ...

... D. B. Wyndham Lewis A NEWSPAPEER photograph of an English Rose kissing a horse at a gymkhana was chiefly interesting on account of the expression on the horse's face, recalling precisely the expression of a County cricketer in the same distasteful situation. Maybe this resemblance occurred later to the sweetheart herself and appalled her. Oddly enough a French runner in the late Derby looked ...

... 0 Freda Brace hochhart A HISTORY of the cinema might be written in terms of its extravagance; not the extravagance of astral bud gets or De Mille bathtubs, but the profligate waste of real talent. In Mario Lanzo, for example, M.-G.-M. have not indeed another Caruso, but a voice of comparable species if not quality. This husky young tenor he was overheard, the story goes, humming at his work of ...

... -i 2^ D. II. Wjndham Lewis CANNIBALS Preparing to Devour the Remains of the Archbishop of Quebec is the title of one of Goya's more restful alfresco studies, now in the municipal gallery at Besançon. A hardy girl roaring in a Sunday paper for Adventure Off the Beaten Track might do worse than pop in some time and have a look at it. If that baby is the kind of English Rose we take her for. it ...

... The R' r Company Ltd The R' r Company Ltd., CLan Jfl d^ovet czV yen /y )i Extra performance need not mean increased fuel con sumption. Witness the Rover Seventy-Five. Its designers who produced the world's first gas turbine car have obtained from the Seventy-Five a perform ance which will surprise even those who know Rover cars well, yet its petrol consumption is substantially lower than that ...

... Scotch II/' r: 1 h 2 still going strong Fine old ...

... D. B. Wyndliam Lewis ASCENDING St. James's Street the other day with an Alpinist acquaintance, we noted without surprise that his outlook became more ethical the higher we climbed-- the gradient being about I in 150, we guess-- until, when we neared the summit just outside White's, a sort of mystic aura surrounded his noble Nordic pan. This is of course a routine trick with Alpinists on any ...

... Fri'tlti Miriico Lockhart CELESTIAL choirs have found a rival menace as audience irritants in the chorus of commentary so often believed necessary to-day. The commentator's nagging voice is of course nothing new. It can be traced back to the earliest talking travelogues which it did to death. Now it has been reintroduced and multiplied in the wake of two other narrative fashions-- the semi ...

... cJ-oiidoit cLimeliakt LESLIE HENSON'S next West End appear ance will be in a revival with a difference. The play is the twenty-five year old comedy by the late J. B. Fagan And So To Bed and the difference is that Vivian Ellis has written a considerable score for it. The director, Wendy Toye, has worked with Ellis's music successfully before, notably in the Cocaran productions Bless the Bride ...

... 7L D. B. Wyndham Lewis AN adventurous chap expressing a deter mination to sail for the China Seas to discover the hidden treasure of Captain Kidd, the eminent pirate, moved us to look up the Newgate Calendar. This improving work, alas, yields no hint of any cache in the course of what is undoubtedly the dullest pirate-story known tp man, not excluding the latest City prospectus. Except that he ...

... THE Earls of Orkney ultimately draw descent from the great and terrible house of Douglas; the first Earl was the fifth son of Anne, Duchess of Hamilton, from whom descends the present ducal house of Hamilton and Brandon, representatives of the ancient race of Douglas, Earls of Angus. ...