12 APRIL 1957, Page 7

BRITISH JUDGES have never been renowned for their savoir-faire since

the occasion when one of them asked, 'Who is Connie Gilchrist?' (Who was she, by the way?) But I shall be surprised if 1957 produces a riper pair of left-handed compliments than Judge Harrison delivered himself of in Liver- pool Divorce Court a few days ago. 'Even a briga- dier,' said the judge, 'does not kiss a girl on the back of her neck unless he thinks something of her.' And, later in his summing-up, he declared that the same unfortunate brigadier 'was no inno- cent, apart from his experience in the Army.'

PHAROS