Time Out London magazine (Issue 1928)

ISSUE 1928 THE CHIPS ISSUE This issue, to paraphrase 'Sesame Street', is brought to you by the letter 'B'. There's Boris Baggs' evocative picture essay of Repton Boxing Club in Bethnal Green and Bill Bankes-Jones, artistic director of the Tête á Tête festival, on his plans to revolutionise fringe opera in the capital. Then there's the Bolshoi ballet, in the form of the astonishing 17-year-old Russian dancer Ivan Vasiliev, who makes his London debut next week. More 'B's turn up in our cover story - that's beef dripping, surely the only thing that'll do for making top-notch chips. And in Books, there's the fascinating tale of Virginia Woolf's loathing of her domestic staff (key quote: 'My poor gaping imbecile of a charwoman'). Throw in bars, Big Smoke, the bloodthirsty and bawdy stars of the new variety scene and it all adds up to a belter of a week for the second oldest letter of the alphabet.