'Only 200 yds from this Cinema'.

It started dreich, then drizzle, then rain, then a deluge.  In trying to call up the spirit of Dilys Powell we visited the local flickering screen.  In an auditorium that holds 250 there were only 7 folk.  I was disappointed because the Queen (on horseback, saluting) didn’t appear at the end.  I always was excited about the dash to get out. 

It also cost more than 3d to get in.  At least I didn’t have the ignominy of having my pal, Stephen Scott, crying all the way through ‘The Three Stooges’.  It happened every time.  Strangely he became a Sergeant in the Glasgow polis.