13 AUGUST 1937, page 6

It Was A Dark Week-end For The English Stage Which

took from it at once Lady Tree and Miss Horniman. Of the two losses the latter is the greater. Lady Tree was a great actress—very much more than merely Sir Herbert's wife— but......

A Spectator's Notebook

T SEE that a new branch of the German-English Friendship 1 Association, the Deutsch-Englische Gesellschaft, corre- sponding to the Anglo-German Fellowship in this country, has......

Digging At Wroxeter Is To Begin Again Next Month. The

announcement is more intelligible when it is remembered that Wroxeter is the Roman Uriconium (Housman has made it familiar : " The wind it blew through holt and hanger When......

Last Week There Was Brought To Me Direct From Washington

the latest good story going the rounds in that capital. President Roosevelt's last words to the French Finance Minister, so the legend ran, were " Whatever else you do, balance......

It Is A Pity The American Baby Brought Alive Into

the world by a Caesarean operation after its mother's death should have died. Such cases are rare, though most of the papers have recalled the successful operation performed ten......

Whether Mr. Norman Ebbutt Of The Times Would Be Regarded

as a suitable member of either organisation is another interesting question. But there are few other circles where it would not be regarded as an honour to do honour to Mr.......

Share Sharks

B ROADLY speaking the task of the Board of Trade Departmental Committee on Share-Pushing, whose report was published on Thursday, was to find means of protecting the fool from......