'Time Marches On Readers of Mr. Wolf Mankowitz's A Kid
for Two Farthings will remember that thp kid in question had one horn and was believed by the East End urchin who acquired it to be unicorn. A film of the story is now being made by Sir Carol Reed. Films are not made overnight, and kids grow fast: so the title-role is being shared by a whole string of kids, carefully graded for size like the ivory elephants on the mantle. pieces of the less unconventional Eastern travellers, and each equipped with an identical artificial horn. A vaguely similar but less soluble problem is presented by an old Jew whose starveling and woebegone appearance earned him a small walking-on part when the film unit was on location in Petticoat. Lane. He has thrived on his pay as an extra, no longer looks haggard and emaciated, and. before the cameras in the studios, inconveniently resembles the After Taking' part of an advertisement for some proprietary panacea.
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