London, May 3.
'To come out for the midday me: and see on the news posters "Lunch 'Time Scores" the while the sunshine pours down from a balmy unruflled sky, is indeed to feel that summer has' returned. Bradman has got going quickly with 206, at his first essay, against Worcestershire—and how much more before this reaches youl But he has still to meet Larwood again, and after careful trial Larwood says this his foot is as sound as ever, though of course he has to speed work up his great again.
Another sign of summer is Covent Garden, so far from dead that the performance now taking place of the "Ring" Cycle Is by common consent one of the best ever, with the finest Brunnhilde (Frida Leider) Siegtinde (Lotte Lehmann) and Wotan (Rudolf Bockelmann) that. the world can. show. Glorious effects, too, are produced by the new scenery, wonder: ful Rhinemaidens and a most romantle Valkyries' rock, around which Loge raises flames' of startling real-
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