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... A lay let Without Unity or Place ^BY A. B. HARROWER (CAPT. A.S.C.) f; Scene I. A Dag-Out in the 2nd Line Trenches, B.E.P., France. Time 4 p.m. 1 J HREE Officers are -L sitting round a table the table is an upturned biscuit-case. There is not room to stand upright. The malls are' of clay about 4 feet high, and above that some eighteen inches of sandbag. The roof is of boards sagging slightly in ...
... T Cmrrt ON r -U A BYSTANDER WEEKLY REVUE u Second Performance \Curtaiii rises and discovers a fashionable wedding ■party about to enter a fashionable West End Church. On wall at bach appears a poster, which announces that to buy new clothes in war-time is worse than wicked it is vulgar.] Chorus HASTE TO THE WEDDING Haste to the war-time wedding, For economy's cheap to-day-- Ropes of pearls ...
... CARET ON r t n i u A BYSTANDER WEEKLY REVUE; n SIXTH PERFORMANCE Scene I. WAR WORK [Curtain rises and discovers a Free Canteen some where in London. It is thronged with soldiers and the waiters and waitresses, mostly dukes and duchesses in private lije, are dashing to and fro serving their guests.) Chorus WAITERS AND WAITRESSES War work! War work! Work that none would care to shirk, Work away, ...
... Cmrrt ON r A BYSTANDER WEEKLY REVUE u. SEVENTH PERFORMANCE Scene: BLIGHTY AT HOME [Curtain rises and discovers a public thoroughfare. At back of stage are seen Right, the bow-window of the Buffers' Club, buffers reading papers. Left, window of the Home Sweet Home Office, eligible public servants wasting the public's money.] Enter a monstrous regiment of women in semi- military costume ...
... THAT ETERNAL TRIANGLE An Age-Old Problem Solved by Richard Viner What! Again? Yes. As it might be played in London, Paris, and Los Angeles under the supervision of Aldous Huxley, Mistin- guett, and the Mayor of Chicago. Hats, gentlemen! Let her go! i. Blood is so Blue. Scene The Duchess of Turnover is seated in the Duchy, one of those old vintage houses in the May Fair Mews. Something stirs ...
... Hard Times \The tightness of money is very apparent in many of the best London clubs. Members who used to dine themselves well, now frequently content themselves with a modes: chop or a steak. Many well-known persons have been lately seen o Patronise the cheap restaurants about Soho. Daily Paper.] Scfne The Smoking-room at the Crtesus Club. Discovered The Hon. Cyril Poynt-D'Argentcoto? Mr. ...
... CNRRT j A BYSTANDER WEEKLY REVUE I n FOURTH PERFORMANCE Scene I. THE ETERNAL FEMININE [Curtain rises and discovers a bevy of fashionably dressed women chatting at their clubi] Chorus (of indignation) Isn't it funny the way men talk? Goodness! Haven't you heard? Latymer says he knows our ways! Isn't it too absurd? The poor man's guessed we're overdressed Our extravagance he attacks Fiddlededee ...
... Delirious Dialogues No. 24. Augustus John and Winston Churchill Depicted by Bovey Augustus How goes the painting Winston I 've given it up for the moment. I 'm more interested in black and white, but I find Indian ink a most difficult medium. Augustus Such a medium as black and white should produce a spirited drawing. Winston Yet many people don't like the pictures I draw with it. They say ...
... Glimnses of the Futltire II-- LYONS'S BOOK CLUB AND THEATRE OF PROPRIETIES (The Trocadero girls, in crinolines and last year's sleeves, are dancing Sir Roger de Coverley on the stage. The legs of the seats in the auditorium are modestly draped ana the ladies of the Smart Set, decorously arrayed in bonnets and shawls, are sharing blood oranges with their attendant, swains. The first fortnightly ...
... The Bystander's Spook Bureau RESUSCITATION OF THE DELPHIC ORACLE DARING NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE BY special arrangement with Julia, we hope shortly to open this transcendental agency for communication with the astral plane. Conversations on the slot system at a shilling per five minutes (bent coins not accepted). Wireless autographs obtained from departed celebrities. Spirit photographs in ...
... CNRRT ON r J c A BYSTANDER WEEKLY REVUE i r ACT III. Scene I. A MASQUERADE DE LUXE Curtain rises and discovers a multitude of smart women disguised as celebrated theatrical j/aw.] Chorus Oh, doesn't it make you feel merry and bright To know that the Suburbs are pleased at the sight Of Society, iety, fol the rol liety. Doing its bit, without shunning the light Oh, it's Art, Art, Art, with a ...