... FROM THE SHIRES AND PROVINCES From Leicestershire OVERNIGHT frost and bright sunshine have spoilt scenting conditions the last few days, and on Monday the Quorn were lucky not to be stopped by fog, as in Leicester it was so thick that two visitors from Warwickshire had apparently to turn back. All our sympathy with poor Kattie who broke her leg badly in a gate and probably won't hunt again ...

... THE MARQUISE DE CASA MAURY In paying tribute to the Marquise de Casa Maury's lovely face Mr. Cecil Beaton has expressed the calmly contemplative aloofness which is so characteristic of her beauty. The Marquise, who adorned innumerable smart assemblages in London as Miss Paula Gellibrand, has since her marriage also become a decorative feature of Parisian Society. Tall, slim, and very fair she ...

... TRÈS CHER-- Christmas is pass ing itself far more chez soi than usual this year. The bon bour geois is beginning to discover that he really cannot afford the tall prices of the tall restaurants, and is resigning him self-- quite happily it seems-- to celebrate les fêtes in the bosom of his family. Do not imagine from this that m past years the famity suffered undufy from neglect. No matter ...

... GOING GAME IN MEETS LADY DAVIN A LYTTON, MRS. CORY. DAVID AND JONATHAN CORY. AND DIAN MOFFAT NOW WE ARE SIX: MRS. GURNEY AND HER TWO CHILDREN. MISS PAMELA MARTIN-SMITH. MR. ERIC MARTIN-SMITH. AND MISS MARY MARTIN-SMITH MRS. NEVILLE FLOWER MR. W. H. COOPER, M.F.H., AND MRS. DOUGLAS CORY COL. DENNISTOUN AND MRS. LAWRENCE The camera scored heavily when it went down to Hertfordshire to play a hand ...

... IN TOWN AND OUT OIF IT LADY ALMA LE POER TRENCH ACTS IN A CHARITY PERFORMANCE HAY FEVER-- BY AN AMATEUR COMPANY Truman Howell A group of the amateur cast at Coldbrook Park, Monmouthshire. The names are Seated Miss Owen, Mr. Guy Nayler, Miss Joan Graham, and Miss Joan Crompton- Roberts centre Lady Herbert standing Major B. William Powlett, Miss Mabel Terry-Lewis, Mr. G. Hirst, Miss Diana ...

... By SABRETACHE SOME of the things the Poor Foxhun ter has to suffer: Noble Lord to Lovely Diana, a stran- ger in the country And how did you like the burst they went over Top toft L.D. Oh, yes, that bit W ould have been all right if it had not been like a bird-cage with wire N.L. (who is also Chair man of the Hunt Com mittee) Oh, yes, Toptoft is my property Another cross which M.F.H.'s have ...

... BUBBLE 6? SQUEAK IT was an internment camp in Germany, and the soldier had watched the post in vain for days and weeks, but nothing ever came for him. All his mates got parcels and letters, but he seemed to have been forgotten by all. At last he could stand it no longer, and in desperation got paper and envelopes and wrote: Dear God, please send me £10. He addressed the envelope, j God, ...

... PETROL VAPOUR By W. G. ASTON. Omne Ignotum. THERE was in my time at Malvern College a small boy-- the sort of thrusting bespectacled little beast who won't accept as gospel what his betters tell him-- (probably High Commissioner for a territory about twice as big as Australia, by now)-- and when our beloved Berridger was giving a lecture upon Physics, Heat, Light, Sound, and all the rest of ...

... By ELEANOR E. HELME PRESUMABLY we should all be up on our toes with excitement over St. An drew's sanction of the use of steel shafts for golf clubs. Are the revolu tionaries waving red flags of triumph because the Royal and Ancient have shown themselves thoroughly abreast with the demands of the times? Are we all dashing oft to our profes sionals to order new sets of clubs Have visions ...

... With Silent Friends By RICHARD KING Life After Death. IT always secretly amuses me to listen to the fury of very churchy people when the topic of conversation is any thing to do with spiritualism or psychical research. Acknowledging that their faith leads them to a belief in a life hereafter, they apparently get so angry when men strive to prove that there is indeed some sure foundation for ...

... Grosvenor Square, S.W. 1. DEAREST,-- A very, very happy New Year. Full of our usual optimism, we are all exchanging that wish to-day, heedless of the growing pile of bills and income tax demands which are the aftermath of every Christmas. And with like optimism we are still full of those good resolu tions which we always make before each new year, heedless also of the sad and early demise of ...

... THE SLEEPING BEAUTY AWAKES AT DRURY LANE THE PRINCIPAL BOY AND HIS HIGH PRINCIPLED GIRL: MISS LILIAN DAVIES AND MISS EVE GRAY MISS CLARICE HARDWICKE IN THE SLEEPING BEAUTY MR. G. S. MELVIN (THE QUEEN) AND MISS LILIAN DAVIES Photographs by Stage Photo Co. The lovely Princess who was as well known at Old Drury as Nell Gwynn, the orange girl, after being asleep for ten years has been awakened ...