PEOPLE AND THINGS
By HAROLD NICOLSON
0 NE of the agreeable things about sailing is that it pro- vides such frequent visits to the cinema. I am fond of films, but when in London I find myself constantly being recalled to the corridors of Westminster by a sense of duty and that stern white eye which blazes above Big Ben. In the country, also, an after-dinner visit to the nearest town is too urban and elaborate an action to be often undertaken. But a boat puts in at sunset into little harbours, the dinghy provides an alert and manageable vehicle, and a few steps only from the sea-weed of the waterstairs brings one to some warm and garish Odeon, where, for the sum of two shillings, one may rest upon a cushioned seat and enjoy the films that delighted London six months previously.
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