... A FALSE START. A COMPLETE STORY. By Evelyn Sinclair, CHARACTERS. Cyril Leighton. Mrs. Hilston (his sister). Captain Soames. SCENE: The paddock at Ascot on Cup Day. Mrs. Hilston and her brother are standing beneath the shade of a large tree watching the horses as they are led slowly round the paddock. Cyril (glancing down from his superior height at his sister who is blonde petite and dressed ...

... DISMISSED WITH COSTS A Domestic Dviologvie. By Warden Ellerslie. CHARACTERS. Mr. Charles Parch (a young barrister). Dorothy Parch (his wife). SCENE. Side lawn at Mr. Parch's Surrey Villa. Time June. (Mr. Parch, right centre on lounge chair cross stage head O.P., reading ■paper. Mrs. Parch, left in low wicker chair, with small work table to left. Parch appears highly interested and amused ...

... Tib Connfomimdlainigf f Hlh aa ClimIL99 By Fo MSIbsirdlsinio It is four o'clock on a sloppy afternoon and the omnibus going from Victoria to the Royal Oak is fairly full of people who stand in no important relation to modern life. Several women are discussing their private affairs with so much candour that it is evident that they regard the interior of an omnibus as possessing the invialable ...

... DRAMATIC DIALOGUES. BY FRANK RICHARDSON. -Y George. It is Sunday afternoon and F. R. is in his study quietly reading about radium in his Encyclopaedia Britannica after the manner of the average English gentleman. Mr. Grossmith is announced. Enter G. G. Junior in completely comic kit. His top hat has been designed by an architect, not a hatter. He wears a gent's frontlcss morning coat, a ...

... DRAMATIC DIALOGUES. BY FRANK RICHARDSON. VEo Ms5. 1. Bo EirvSini^o Mr. H. B. Irving and F. R. arc dining together on Sunday night in the coffee-room of a club in St. James's Street, one of the few remaining clubs that do not attempt to look like restaurants. The atmosphere is sombre but comfortable. The red shades on the silver candlesticks throw a pink light on the wan face of the actor and ...

... Tlh Merchant of CluScag'Oo A (Coana^^ off lT20ir32:aSo (By soma sttHrilbiuitedl t Ba ...

... DRAMATIC DIALOGUES. BY FRANK RICHARDSON. M ...

... A DRAMATIC DIARY B^ ao Fa23S^t=H!gflh^tE:>.!)', Flames and an Undertaker. THE theatrical atmosphere, meta phorically as well as practically, was decidedly warm last week, not to say torrid. There was a horrid suggestion of sulphurous flames about the funny part of The Sin of William Jackson. Mr. Chipps, the unintentionally comic undertaker; handed his business cards to nearly everyone on the ...

... THE COCKEYED PARTY It. It. Wyndham Ltkw (or. \ii>li(niaiT in llloomshiirv} PROLOGUE EARLY afternoon on a June day of 1950. Outside the London School of Economics. Siesta is over. Clusters of attractive gipsies lounge on the School steps, casting provo cative or insolent glances at the crowd. Others mingle with the populace, passing to and fro with rhythmically-swaying hips. Others are flocking ...

... PETER DICKINSON, bearing in mind the fondness for moderniz ing Shakespeare, here presents Falstaff in a motoring mishap OfCENE: the courtyard oj a wayside inn. O Enter Shallow and Silence. Shallow: Come on, come on, come on; give me your hand, Sir, give me your hand. And how goes the little sports car you bought at Stamford Fair? A quick one, I'll warrant? Silence: Alas, Cousin, a dear bargain ...

... D. B. Wpidham Lewis PROMISING frantic excitement but supplying very little, the Mystery of the Man in the Iron Mask (so called because it was a black velvet one) has always seemed to us marvellously like a typical Daily Scoop scream headline H ...

... . CHAPTER VIII. A FAVOUR REFUSED. By B. L. Farjeon, Author of Miriam Rozella, Grif, The Pride of Race. David pressed for an early marriage and used a lover's strongest arguments, absurdly illogical but sweet to a woman's ears. Notwithstanding which, Margaret demurred-- for a woman's reason which she did not at first reveal. Endeavouring to get at it she foiled him; at this kind of cunning ...