3 OCTOBER 1931, page 10

The Magic Microphone ; Or, Warning To Mothers.

The most ingenious exhibit at the Radio Show was the outfit which you are supposed to hang over the baby's cot on your Nannie's evening out, and which is connected to a special......

Cinema

' The Silver Lining ' at the Capitol "ROMANCE Sentimentale " of Eisenstein, rechristened by somebody The Silver Lining, is a short film, overshadowed by the laborious creakings......

Fox-hunting Extraordinary.

On Wednesday morning, as Mr. Mapp, landlord of the West- morland Arms, in George Street, near Manchester Square, was riding from Barnet to town, in company with a friend, a fine......

Considered Trifles

HORTICULTURE AND HARMONY. When Mr. Wiles opened the Port of London Authority Horticultural Society's flower show last week, he is reported to have said, " Nothing leads to......

Copy For Aesop.

If Aesop were alive now he would not have to invent his animal fables. He would only need to read the newspapers, for hardly a day passes without prominent space being given to......

Autumn

LAY now aside thy morning veil of mist, Fairest of all the Year's four daughters fair, And let me gaze into that glowing face, Those steady eyes, crowned with thy sunkissed......

Sir. Walter Scorr.

This distinguished person, we understand, left Abbotsford, on Saturday, to fulfil his purpose of spending the winter at Naples. He embarks for Malta, on board the Barham, of......

A Hundred Years Ago

THE " SPECTATOR," OCTOBER 1ST, 1831. TITHE Col./morons. Nearly three hundred writs have been issued within the last few days by the lessees of Trinity College, Cambridge,......