Banker's Hazard

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The Battleship Potemkin

SIR, — Miss Virginia Graham writes (Janu- ary 22nd) of the extravagance of gestures in The Battleship Potemkin which seems a weak- ness to the modern viewer. There may be much......

Weller On Camberwell

SIR,-7-Mr. H. J. Bridges need no longer feel distressed at Mr. Weller's apparent disparage- ment of Camberwell men. Mr. Weller senior was the driver of a long-distance stage......

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John Gloaci

3 The Mall, East Sheen, S.W.14 [Many letters have been received on this burning topic. An apology is due to our readers for Watson's faulty memory. He was, of course, confusing......

Curses Seem Somehow More Satisfying To The Unregenerate...

man than blessings. I am thinking particularly of J. M. Synge's 'The Curse,' which ends up: "Lord, this judgement quickly bring And Int your servant, J. M. Synge." Competitor's......

Spectator Competition No, 205 Report By Edward Blishen

At the thirtieth direct translation of "La Belle Dane" into Augustan English I turned pale. Surely the joke lay in showing our poets straining at themes uncongenial or unlikely:......