An Unusual And Interesting Example Of The Victorian...
is always with us was the attempt by London concert agents to suppress the enterprising 'Gentlemen's Concert of Ribald and Amorous Verse and Song' held in the Recital Room at......
Westminster Commentary
The cause of it all, for once, was not on either side of the Mace, but up in the public gallery. The Waters family was in attendance, mother in a very becoming blue hat and......
Some Distinguished Hands Have Been Raised In Horror At Two
recent journalistic developments : the Industrial Correspondent of the News Chron- ic•le praising the steel industry in an advertisement, and the setting of a competition by......
Last Week The Daily Mail Published On Its Front Page
with a good deal of jubilation a new poem by Pasternak entitled 'The Nobel Prize,' which its reporter, Anthony Brown, received from him in the course of a three-hour interview......
Talking Of Humbug, Mr. E. H. Brooks Advertised Some Houses
in both the Observer and the Sunday Times last week. In the Observer the advertisement read: . . £7,950 lock, stock, & barrel, or owner would strip if wanted for any other......
A Spectator's Notebook .
THE GRIXO-TURKISH agree- ment on Cyprus was such a miracle that people seem to have ascribed to it a sort of Falstallian ability to create miracles in others. And up to a point......
The London County Council Decided By A Major-: Ity Of
one vote in 117 to grant a licence for the East German film Operation Teutonic Sword (now how about a West German film called Operation Teutonic Title?). The sponsors of the......
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