5 MAY 1933, page 7

Art And Public Life

T HE annual banquet of the Royal Academy is, by tradition, a ceremonial function* in which the President finds himself side by side with, representative's of the Royal Fainily,......

Mr. Lloyd George, I Should Judge From Estimates I Have

heard made in a reliable quarter, should with reasonable luck clear £100,000 from his forthcoming autobiography, which Ivor Nicholson and Watson are to publish. That, of course,......

The Ghouls Were Given A Supreme Opportunity By The Death

of Lord ICnebworth and the fact that Lord Lytton had to convey the news to Lady Lytton while she was entertaining a party at Covent Garden. As might be expected, The Times and......

I• Have Come Upon Evidences Again And, Again During The

'last week of the deep impression which the -death of Sir Henry .MeCardie has made upon a' host of persons who knew him well, or slightly, or only through observing him in......

It Is Hard To Believe That President Roosevelt Has Been

thinking seriously of coming to the Economic Conference. The fate of his predecessor, Woodrow Wilson, should be sufficient warning, even though Mr. Roosevelt would no doubt......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HE second and third volumes of the verbatim report of the Moscow Trial (in an English translation) have now reached me, and the question of whether the Report has been in any......

I Am Sorry Convocation At Oxford Has Rejected The Master

of Balliol's proposal to reduce the M.A. fee from £12 to £5, making up for the loss of revenue by charging 6s. a term to every undergraduate (whether he takes a degree or not).......