The Cinema
" The Blue Express " at the Academy ART and propaganda are but uneasy consorts at the best of times ; but when the matchmaker is as restless and energetic a fellow as M. Ilya......
Nonsense Maxims.
In a time of turmoil impartiality is an ideal—or a pose. I select, as a saying to add to the Nonsense Box for this week, a remark attributed to one of our candidates. " A......
S 3ipatiiy Misplaced.
At Olympia, one evening last week, I was fascinated by a shabby and faded couple—man and wife no doubt—who stood, with wistful lookS, beside one of the cheapest of mass-......
As The World Goes
COME AND Miss HIM. Broadcasting parties have been a disturbing novelty of the late election campaign. " For Mr. Lloyd George on the Wireless " was scribbled across an invitation......
Too Dear.
A Yankee schoolmaster, a teacher of chirography,. not long since located himself in Rensselaer county, New York, and com- menced a school under the most favourable auspices. He......
In The Year 1749 Dr. Johnson Contributed To The Getillcmanes
Magazine a Letter on Fireworks, protesting . against 'transient shows that " advanced by such - slow degrees and with such costly preparations." Apparently the stained ........
A Hundred Years Ago
Some weeks ago, we laid before our readers the heads of a proposal which h ad boon submitted to the Government for founding a Colony on the Southern Coast of Australia. As wo......
Points Of Style. No. 2. Inverted Commas.
Mr. Baldwin has said that he hopes before he dies " to make the use of inverted commas in this country illegal." I have had to use them in quotation of his bold dislike. But .......
Their Names In Other Lands.
One may always derive some solace from reading foreign newspapers during a domestic crisis. Their versions, particu- larly, of our famous names cast a fantastic sidelight, which......
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