... Grosvenor Square, W. 1. DEAREST,-- Some of the gloomiest of the weather prophets have been predict ing rather more unpleasant things than they usually do for this much-maligned month. That is, worse gales than we have already had just lately and even intenser cold than we suffered last year. Poor February, one can hardly blame her if she does provide all that and more. For so long she has not ...

... My dear TS been spending one or two days in Nice, just to enjoy the end of the racing there, and I must say I have had a most enjoyable time, having man aged to back several winners and also see a great many interesting people. 1 tie Lrrand Frix produced a huge crowd of spectators as the weather was perfect, and we were all able to wear our new frocks with out any cold winds to make us huddle ...

... MISS DREDA STANDISH AT VILLARS Chas. Bruwn MR. JIM LAWRENCE AND SENORITA LILI DE ALVAREZ MISS PATRICIA O'BRIEN AND MISS ETHEL LEVERSON Chan. Brown LADY BLANE Chas. Brown All these pictures, bar one, of people who are out in the snow with Heaven's light above them were taken recently atVillars. The only picture not at Villars is the one of Mr. Jim Lawrence and Sehorita Lili de Alvarez,, who ...

... BUBBLE 6? SQUEAK THE following story is taken from Mr. Edward Abinger's recently-published book Forty Years at the Bar. A counsel had the unfortunate habit of leaving out the necessary aspirates, or putting them in unnecessarily. He was appearing in an action before Lord Darling, and addressed the jury somewhat in this way: My client s orse was being driven along the Old Kent Road when the ...

... 66 Mel&ftotuilb.59 ALEC and I were on detachment at Shahjehanpur, and about the middle of the month of May, on a Tuesday afternoon, Jaldoo, our shikari, came to us bringing news that a leopard had been seen near Shabuznuggar. The jungle in which the leopard had been seen was quite a small one, so we decided to beat it, and sent Jaldoo to Shabuz nuggar at once to start building the machans, and ...

... Eve at Golf A Week of Congratulations By ELEANOR E. HELME IT looks as if this page this week is going to be one long list of congratulations to everybody. That can be quite pleasant, better anyway than a dismal catalogue of condolences. The question is, where to start? First of all with those three lucky clubs who have headed the list for the Britannia and Eve Club Competition for 1929, as may ...

... Wedding's and Engagements Abroad. Mr. Hugh Francis, the son of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Francis of Whitchurch, near Cardiff, is marrying Miss Barbara Stewart, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Stewart of Denbam, Bucks, in Karachi, India; another wedding in India will be that between Major Robert Douglas Crew, 2.12 Frontier Force Regiment, Indian Army, the only surviving son of the late Mr. E. G. Crew ...

... Always in Perfect Health Photo by Sasha Miss Fay Compton, the talented and beautiful young actress, now playing a leading part in Virtue for Sale on Tour, writes: actress's life is not only walking on ZJa to the stage in the most attractive -4- A- frocks and attractive surroundings. What the public does not think of is weeks of strenuous and nerve-racking rehearsals, often followed up by ...

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... Decca Decca Decca 'All DIOSCOPIC' REPRODUCTION brings you living tone AUDIOSCOPIC reproduction is a Decca Triumph no other gramophone provides the vital something which bridges the gap between gramophone tone and the tone of the original performance. Difficult to explain, but easy to detect when you hear the Salon Decca side by side with an ordinary gramophone. The Salon Decca performance ...

... j Closing an Oshkosh Wardrobe Trunk is the most effortless thing in the world. No pulling or tugging just an easy down ward turn and a gentle inward pressure Only a safe could be safer You know the last desperate effort to close an ordinary trunk? With an Oshkosh you gently press the lock and it shuts itself-- smoothly and nobly like a safe. Absolutely secure! That is the Oshkosh way. Every ...

... That Body 0 Sea tcher, Stanley/' of Westminster New Victorian Pictures By HECTOR BOLITHO Author with the Dean of Windsor, of the new Life of Dean Stanley, to be published in November FIVE years ago I shared the prejudice of my genera tion and thought the Victorians were dull, heavy hypocrites. But it has been my delight during the past year to read many new letters, written by Dean Stanley ...