... OUR GREAT AFRICAN FLIGHT.-- VIII DESCRIBED BY THE BYSTANDER'S TAME PROFESSOR. i ii- i A A. OUR African heroes have achieved yet another stage in their all-conquering progress. Prof. Clump, in the despatch we print to-day, pays a generous tribute to the gallantry and endurance of the pilot, on whose ample shoulders lies the heaviest burden of responsibility. Captain Draggle has had a varied ...

... RACING NOTIONS By Carbine Winter Sport WE said good-bye to the flat at Manchester and Lingfield at the week-end, and now we are wondering what sort of National Hunt season it is going to be. Quite a different atmosphere is noticeable in National Hunt racing from that to which we are accustomed during the campaign on the flat. A new crowd of people appears to turn up at the jumping meetings, ...

... London Nights Wartime Dinner, Dance and Cabaret The Bystander's Going-Out Guide The Ritz L'ABRI du RITZ still shines out its message in safe blue underneath the arches in Picca dilly. Follow the indication of that, go crown the stairs to wards what you used to know as the Grill (or the Bar perhaps), and you come-- at right-time. anyway to the new Popote. La Popote du Ritz is probably ...

... At the Sign of the Times The Happy Season Whether we wish it or no, the opening of the New Year is, as a rule, comparatively happy. For one thing, it represents the period which philosophers have declared to be most conducive to real happiness, that, namely, of recovering from previous pain or depression-- caused in this case by overdoing it in one way and another at Christmas. Most people ...

... More caustic comments by the Blasi Debutante 1 2. Waltz. I did not catch his name, but he came with the North-Lindsay's, and Mamma says they know the right people. Anyway, he had an arm like a boat-hook, and waltzed as if he had a starting- gate continually in front of him. It was a most distressing exercise. I believe we collided with the Richardson girl, the one who drives Jim Deacon's motor ...

... At the Sign of the Times THE AGE OF SHORT CUTS That the Age is not Faultless This is not an age of learning; it is an age of short-cuts, motor cars and games. Such is the painful indictment brought against the twentieth century by a writer in the Lady's Reaim. I venture to quote it partly because --this not being an age of learning-- we may not have studied the Lady's Realm for ourselves; ...

... POLITICS ^us/ness Governors By FITZWILLIAM IT seems a long time since 1912, when Mr. Bottomley was agitating for a business Govern ment. Since then, a business Government has faced the terrible job of running a European War. It ran it badly, but any Government would have run it badly. We expected too much, because the word business Government brings up rather too simple a conception. The ...

... CcS The Mixture As Before CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENTS IN WAR-TIME I BY JINGLE UNDER normal condi tions London is very liberally supplied with entertainments at this season of the year, and, to judge from my recent experiences, London has decided at the present time to be as normal as ever, if not more so. Theatrical managers seem to have conspired together in their resolve to make preparations ...

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... r-^ Mud, Blood, and Khaki SOME TRUTHS FROM THE FRONT BY AN OFFICER ON LEAVE-- No. II. ,1 J=k This brief series of articles has been written specially for The Bystander by an officer just returned from I the front on sick leave, who has personally inspired the illustrations. He shows the i war under a somewhat different aspect from that to which the newspaper correspondent at the front has ...

... A ZA [ew ype BY THE OLD GUARD THE mere millions of London were not consulted when a handful of ill-advised work people 'decided to dis organise the traffic of the capital of the Empire for the sake of an extra ninepence or so a week. We oursclf were but little put about by the caprice of the sorry knaves but on all sides of us there were many who spoke aloud of the manifest indecency of the ...

... Pinocchio Walt Disney, like the Blue Fairy, brings the puppet to life in his second full-length colour cartoon For the screen successor to German Jacob Grimm's Snow White, Disney has turned to the other end of the ex-axis, and picked an Italian fable set down by Collodi. The story of Pinocchio, the puppet hoy who comes to life, has provided Dr. Disney's genius with the ideal frame tor ...