he background in that last scene where _Tammas_,
having "dreed his weird" (as they would say in Northampton) and
redeemed his past, comes back from Canada, flings himself into his
father's arms, remains there listening to a sustained exposition of
parental loyalty, and only after a considerable interval remarks the
presence of his future wife. She took it very well, but if I know
anything of the British public it won't be so easily pleased.

O. S.

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[Illustration: SCOTS WHA HAVER.

_Wallace Craigie_ MR. LOUIS CALVERT.

_Fergus McLarnie_ MR. ERNEST HENDRIE.]

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A Matinee in aid of the Housing Association for Officers' Families, of
which the QUEEN is a Patron, will be held at the Winter Garden Theatre
on Thursday, June 24th, at 2.30 P.M. The programme includes a Mime
play, for which Mr. EUGENE GOOSSENS will conduct Mr. ARTHUR CLARKE
JERVOISE'S music. Mrs. CHRISTOPHER LOWTHER, who appears in the play,
is also arranging "An Elizabeth Episode," in which the STUART-WILSON
Sextette will sing.

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"Wanted, Lad, about 14 or 15, for telephone. Good wages; good
opportunity to learn confectionery."--_Local Paper._

We often wondered how these telephonists occupy their time.

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"Shop Window Wanted within stone's throw of Brook Street and
Bond Street."

_Daily Paper._

With so many Bolshevists about we think the advertiser should have
used a less provocative phrase.

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[Illustration: _Tommy._ "THAT'S THE SORT OF DOG I'M HAVIN'."

_Nurse._ "TOMMY, YOU'RE FORGETTING THE 'G' AGAIN."

_Tommy._ "GEE! THAT'S THE SORT OF DOG I'M HAVIN'."]

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OUR BOOKING-OFFICE.

(_By Mr. Punch's Staff of Learned Clerks._)

_The Secret Corps_ (MURRAY) is the title of a book on espionage,
before and especially during the War, every page of which I have read
with the greatest possible entertainment--the greatest possible,
that is, for anyone at home. To get the real maximum out of Captain
FERDINAND TUCHY'S astonishing anecdotes one would, I suppose, need
to be under a table in Berlin while they were being perused by the
ex-chiefs of Intelligence on the other side. It is a book so stuffed
with good stories and revealed (or partly revealed) mysteries that I
should r