Country Life Every Year I Vow To Waste No More

time hanging about the hop-kilns during the drying. Every year I fall. How could anybody, with any curiosity toward country affairs, stay indoors when the sound of that......

Inside The Oast

Many of the oasts are now heated by oil burners, and these add to the hollow and incessant moan, setting up a duet by supplying the lower voice, which wavers a little, with the......

Contemporary Arts

THEATRE Home and, Beauty. By W. Somerset Maugham. (St. Martin's) matter is farce, the manner is comedy and the whole thing is tremendously funny. At the end of the First World......

Music

Two concerts given by string orchestras during the last week have provided interesting points of comparison and given an opportunity for assessing the weakness and strength of......

In My Garden. An Ardent Young Farmer Took Me By

the lapel the other day when I called to see him about buying some of his precious farmyard manure. He raved about what he called the tyranny of the green-house and the cloche.......

Cinema

" Flesh will Surrender." (Curzon).—" Passionelle." (Cameo- Polytechnic). FoLLowING his brilliant and moving performance in Open City and To Live in Peace, M. Aldo Fabrizi is not......