and the make-up man, glancing in from the corridor, clucked with approval. 'Your watch, sir? There you are,' said the man in checks. Smiling nonchalantly, he proffered the watch to its owner on his dirty palm. 'I wouldn't sit next to him in a tram,' whispered the comedian cheerfully to the make-up man. But the cat put the watch trick in the shade. Suddenly getting up from last night." And he said : " I live in the other half! " ' Bengalsky paused for the laugh, but none came so he went on : ' Well, as I was saying, you are about to see a very famous artiste from abroad, M'sieur Woland, with a session of black magic. Of course we know, don't we . . .' Bengalsky smiled confidentially, ' that there's no such thing really.