16 JUNE 1933, page 6

When The Pre-raphaelite Brotherhood First Came Jut Being...

made - a mistake they ought to have avoided. They were rash enough to exhibit their works, before they had prepared the way by expounding their theories. So they were rapped......

The Arrangenients Have' Been Admirably Made, One In Par-...

" Are there good coulisses?" an experienced eon- - ferencehabitugwho did not get to the opening session asked anxiously. The answer is that there are. The delegates' lobby......

* Cambridge, Having Just Appointed One Its Own Sons, Mr.

Roger Fry, to its Slade Profeasorship of Fine Art, may feel justly flattered that Oxford, having a similar vacancy to fill, has taken a Cambridge man, too, in Mr. H. S.......

. .

Sir Stafford Cripps andMr. Lansbury between them look like ensuring their party a protracted spell of opposition. The more they talk of overriding the veto (only a sus- pensory......

Killing With Courtesy From Our Correspondent,

• - Peking,..hine 8th. A Japanese aeroplane landed in Peking this morning for the purpose of conveying the Japanese Army's sympathy with the Chinese over the !toss of Chinese -......

A Sentence In Tuesday's Times—"lord Oxford And Asquith...

- piano solo "-strikes strange to - he eye. For most of us there is only One Lord Oxford and Asquith, and the further record that " Lord Oxford took prizes for Latin and music "......

The Unpunctuality Of Certain Sections Of The Theatre-...

is a -form of bad manners so - persistent as to have become proverbial. But there are degrees - of dis- courtesy which still astonish me. 'A few evenings ago I went to see "......

A Spectator's Notebook

K ING GEORGE was in what would, I suppose,' be called excellent voice at the opening of the Eco- nomic Conference on Monday, but the battery of loud- speakers ranged down the......