Miss VIOLET VANBRUGH was patently nervous with her part, a little jerky and restless. She needn't have been. Loyalty would have carried her through a duller play, to say nothing of her charming looks and her queenly way of wearing a beautiful gown. Mr. LOWNE, as the baronet, made effective play with a quite impossible part in a quite futile situation, and held the reflector up to the best Mayfair Cockney with "_Georginar_ explains." He needn't apologise; we know it's true to life! The piece of acting that most cheered me was Mr. GRAHAME HERINGTON as the philanderer's manservant--a very tactful and observant performance. Mr. FRANK ESMOND, the philanderer, seemed ill at ease (partly art but partly nature, I judged, perhaps unjustly). Miss LETTICE FAIRFAX as the little goose was what I believe is known as adequate. T. * * * * * The Food Shortage. Letter received by a schoolteacher:-- "Dear Miss,--Will you please let Sam out about 20 minutes to 12 o'clock. His Granma is undergoing an operation this morning and I want Sam for dinner. Yours truly, Mrs. ----." * * * * * From a report of the British Music Convention:-- "'How the British piano can raise the trade to Imperil dignity' was the subject of an address."--_Scotsman_. We hope the British piano will resist the temptation. * * * * * "Portobello's dressing boxes for lady bathers are practically ready. There are fifteen boxes at the Band Stand enclosure, very much resembling ballot boxes in size, shape, and material."--_Edinburgh Evening Dispatch_. A happy thought to prepare the new voters for taking the plunge. * * * * * "The members of the Cabinet occupied specially reserved seats in the choir and lectern, where also the Lord Mayor was seated."--_Scotsman_. A little hard on the eagle. * * * * * From a cinema advertisement:-- "Actual Scenes of our Local Charming Cheddar Valley and the Beautiful West of England Coast Scenery, also predicting those Glorious Sunset Scenes that made Sir Alfred Turner 'famous.'"--_West Country Paper_. The General _will_ be pleased. * * * * * "To-day the weather has cleared, but the record according to a correspondent who, signing himself the 'oldest inhabitant,' has recently written to the press, stating that in 1178 there was snow on Simla on 14th April, has now been easily beaten."--_Rangoon Times_. The oldest inhabitant, however, is still undefeated. * * * * * MY CUTHBERT. For months I had been chasing Cuthbert. I had a store of withering phrases burning to be poured over his unmentionable head. Last Tuesday my opportunity arrived.