... ARE WE UPROOTED NO BRITISH PHLEGM Drawn by G. L. Stampa. ...

... IT was a trivial little thing, a black chiffon nightdress. Alicia Christie, a Chelsea woman comfortably off, stole it from a shop counter, and there seemed to be no earthly reason for her folly until a psychiatrist found one in a complex family relationship. What happened to the woman next, and why? There, briefly, is the pith of Lesley Storm's drama at the West- mit ster, with the problem ...

... CITY NOTES. OUR STROLLER IN THROGMORTON STREET. VERY sorry, but I 'm too busy to bother,' and the broker backed into his room, leaving the insurance agent stranded in the outer office. It 's my own fault, he admitted. In a rash moment, I filled up a post card, and now the company won't give me a moment's peace. You re already insured, of course? Not enough. If I were to die in a hurry, ...

... 0ur I'l'U Quotes By TOBY O'BRIEN I SEE that the German Embassy is to re-establish itself in Belgrave Square, a few doors away from the Austrians. Before the war, it used to be originally at No. 9 (and later Nos. 7 and 8 as well), Carlton House Terrace. When Ribbentrop came here during his short and ill-starred embassy, he imported a large number of German workmen to remodel the three houses in ...

... CITY NOTES. OUR STROLLER IN THROGMORTON STREET. WHAT, you? I thought you'd gone away, missin' the merry grouse or ticklin' the cold blooded trout. Buildin' the sandy castle or kickin' the playful bucket is more in my line. I leave the extravagances to you and your friends in Throgmorton Street. Give me the luxuries of life, said The Broker, and you can have all the necessities. Eh, ...

... FRONT* RANKERS ON THE RINK: ICE CLUB CELEBRITIES. Specially Drawn for The Sketch by H. F. Crowther-Smith. London's new Ice Club has taken the fancy of Society, and many well-known people find time to practise skating there, and to join in games of ice-hockey. The Marchioness of Londonderry, London's leading Conservative hostesis, is an enthusiast who goes to the Ice Club frequently so are the ...

... CITY NOTES. FINANCE IN A FIRST-CLASS CARRIAGE. SEND the United States a couple of million copies of The Sketch every week, and thereby reduce the War Debt, The Engineer was proposing. America professes to be open to receive pay ment in kind, and, well, here's a practical way of doing it. In kind Where does the kindness come in, if you 're That sounds all right, said The Broker, but follow ...

... THE BOOK AND ITS STORY. CHILDREN'S WAYS. REVIEWED FOR THE SKETCH BY WILLIAM CANTON. {Author of The Invisible Playmate.11) It was a happy thought of Professor Sully's to present in a more accessible and popular form many of the most attractive pages in his Studies of Childhood. Children's Ways appeals, as the title indicates, to the dependents of that irrepressible and irresponsible ...

... A RUGGER GENIUS: BENNIE, THE SPRINGBOKS' SKIPPER AND STAND-OFF HALF. Caricatures by Met. Benjamin Laurens Osier, knotvn to everyone as Bennie, is recognised as the best stand-off half-back produced by South Africa. He is the captain of the celebrated Springboks' team which have been going from victory to victory during their British tour, and must be regarded as one of the great players of ...

... Beverley Baxter Soon we '11 be in London Town, Sing my lads Yo Ho A nd see the King in a golden crowd, Sing my lads Yo Ho J Montreal. THE good ship Empress of Canada will dock to-morrow, and I have only to visit Ottawa for a day and then go on board. Will the sun be shining over Liverpool when we put into that voluptuous port? Will the train to London be a streamlined all-Pullman affair with ...

... Criticisms in Cameo. By J. T. Grein. THE BLUE MAZURKA, AT DALY'S. SONG, music, and dance! Colour, movement, and humour! Here are all the essentials of musical comedy, for the story matters only as a string on which to hang the glistening beads of entertain ment. It is a story of love, a romance according to pattern, and yet not very much of a romance either, though it is set in Warsaw, where ...

... lfS%l I . L\ N Lawn-Tennis Notes and Sketches by H. F. Crowther-Smith. THE Gipsy encamp merit at Stamford Hill, though deluged by the downpour on Derby Day, was little perturbed by the consequent loss of play -time, and, when tents were struck on Saturday, everything that really mattered had been brought to a definite conclusion. Appropriately enough, the Gipsy Club's twenty- seventh annual ...