5 MAY 1950, page 5

London Playgoers Should Not Miss The Hat Trick, By Thomas

Browne, when they have a chance of seeing it, as no doubt they soon will. So far it has been tried out at Brighton and Bournemouth with notable success, thanks no doubt......

I Am Indebted To A Number Of Readers Who Have

sent me semi- satisfactory explanations of the difference between Dumbarton and Dunbarton. The real difference seems to be that one—the latter— form is right and the other......

The Re-planning Of Cambridge, On Which I Have Recently Said

something, involves so many authorities that the danger that talk may replace action for months or years to come is serious. It is satisfactory, therefore, that that influential......

" Lord Justice Asquith, Who Is 60, Said In A

broadcast last night that he shed no tears over the abolition of the ' cat.' " So the Daily Telegraph. Why the " who is 60 " ? The words presumably have some relevance. Would......

National Government Or

T HE debate in the House of Lords initiated by Lord Elton on the formation of a National Government will have served at any rate to clarify ideas which on this particular......

* * * * My Self-typing Friend Intends To Rely

on his scertary in future.......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HE projected visit of the Secretary-General of the United Nations to Moscow opens up interesting possibilities. Mr. Trygve Lie is apparently making the journey on his own......

Through Circumstances Not Immediately Material Here, I...

mixed up last week-end with Rotary Inter- national's annual conference. Rotary, a most admirable movement, initiated in Chicago in 1905, is not as well known as it deserves to......