3 FEBRUARY 1933, page 13

The Elizabethan Exhibition

QUEEN ELIZABETH had no taste. Instead of devoting the revenues of her piratical expeditions to the encouragement of painting and to the purchase of those masterpieces of Italian......

The Theatre

"Mother of Pearl." By A. P. Herbert. Music by Oscar Straus. At the Gaiety. THE President of the Board of Trade—horrid thought !--once loved an actress. He told their daughter......

A Hundred Years Ago

"Tao SPECTATOR," FEBRUARY 2ND, 1833. THE DIFFICULTY or IMPOSING NEW TAXES. To discover new taxes, which shall be theoretically proper, is not very difficult. The difficulty lies......