6 JUNE 1931, page 11

A Penny Of Observation

AMBASSADORS TO THE MOON. Fact is stranger than fiction only by dint of breaking all the rules of fiction. When it conforms to them—as when, for instance, a sequence of events is......

The English : Are They Human ?

[From The Times.] " One of the prize-winners [in the Irish Sweep] was stated on Monday to be ' Jumbo,' 18 North Street, Havant. ' Jumbo' was the nom-de-plume adopted by Harry......

The Three Hares

BY ELSPETH FOX-PITT. I T was at Christmas time. The country was drear. The land lay soggy and grey, with cold puddles in every dent. The grass of the down was brown, and as you......

* * * * A Warning To Audiences.

During the applause which concluded a performance recently given in London by a distinguished foreign dancer, a member of the audience—an elderly man, sitting in a box—......

Premiers At Play.

The widespread sympathy evoked by the Prime Minister's announcement of his intention to humanize No. 10 Downing Street (which at present, he says, " is simply a mere official......