A Spectator's Notebook T He Speeches, Markedly Different...
the present Foreign Secretary and Sir Austen Chamberlain, in the arms embargo debate on Monday, have been a good deal commented on, the significant fact being that Sir John......
Sir John Reith Committed Himself To An Interesting...
Wednesday, when he predicted that " in due time " railroads, coal and steel would be nation- alized up to the B.B.C. model and the Post Office and one or two Government......
At The Light Cost Of A Journey To Cambridge I
spent another two hours or so of sheer delight the other day seeing and hearing (one cannot say simply seeing, as in the case of an ordinary stage play) Ruth Draper. Miss Draper......
" Little Victims, By Richard Rumbold. ' A Remark.. Able
book,' Richard Aldington." Sunday Referee, February 26th. " Aldington is a man to be admired." Richard Rum. bold. Same paper, same day, same page. Jextrs,......
* * S. * The Death Of Lady Guendolen Cecil,
the wife of Mr. Algernon Cecil, lends a poignant significance to the dedication of Mr. Cecil's Metternich, published early last month. The book is inscribed "To My Wife : From a......
Someone Unquestionably Ought To Do Something About...
people who talk of doing anything about them are talking of doing the wrong thing. The L.C.C. tniks of taxing horse vehicles, for which there seems small justification, and the......
It Has Been Rather Distressing To Find That Even The
beautiful ballets organized by the Association of Operatic Dancing could not save the Coliseum as a home of ballet and vaudeville. I went in there a day or two ago when an......
To See Madame Genee Once Again Recalled To My Mind
the Gen& of twenty years ago, when she was still at the height of her powers, the greatest—was she not ?—of all the ballerinas of her time. She had the exactness of technique,......