12 MARCH 1954, page 7

1 " 4. Night B The Practice Of Giving Plays A Provincial...

before th ri jg them to London began, long ago, to take some of C e Xeitement out of first nights. Curiosity and suspense were i nevitably lessened when, all over the audience,......

The Breach

The Viet Minh is the so-called national liberation movement of Indo-China. It is led by Ho Chi Minh, who was for a short time, at the end of the Japanese war, head of the......

Sell-analysis

Civil Service Selection Boards consist of a chairman, an observer and a psychologist; for the benefit of the latter each candidate is required, at one stage of i the......

The End Of The Season

As we hacked home I realised that my first memories of this country road, with its inconsequent twists and its variable diameter, had been acquired from the back of a pony; and......

A Spectator's Notebook

I ASKED a man who was in a position to know the answer what were the chief differences between the Antipodean tour carried out 27 years ago by the Duke and Duchess of ork and......

(less Twenty Per Cent Retained By The Library) To Go

to the author. The project—which in a different form operates in all three Scaffdinavian countries—has been thoroughly mulled over, though in an unco-ordinated way, by most of......

More Suited To The Barrack-room Than The Boudoir

When the foregoing anecdote was related to Colonel Bernard Fergusson, he reminded me of Field Marshal Lord Wavell's story of the officer commanding a cavalry regiment who con-......