... THE MANNIN BEG And Other Matters of Mechanical Interest A POWERFUL WEAPON OF DEFENCE These sensilive horns, which can betray the approach of enemy aircraft, were put into operation during recent Air Defence exercises at St. Pollen, Germany THRILLS AND SPILLS IN THE MANNIN BEG, last week's light car race through the streets of Douglas, Isle of Man. It ended in a great triumph for the M.G. ...

... Plays and fii MS of TO-DAY Evergreen Seymour Hicks: Twelfth Night in Regent's Park: The Pur suit of Happiness-- a Slight but Amusing Play at the Vaudeville By PHILIP PAGE ONLY THE CONSULTATION of irrefut able reference books could convince anyone that Mr. Seymour Hicks is over sixty; he is young, not only in appearance, but in soul. But being a supremely honest person he is putting all his ...

... A NIGHT IN JUNE A Sphere Photographer in Mayfair and Theatreland Above and inset AT THE DORCHESTER The cool night air lures many from the gaily-lit ballroom, and Park Lane provides a setting for a pageant of fashion A CINEMA IN MAYFAIR The entrance to the Curzon Cinema becomes a riot of colour as the dresses of its fashionable patrons are bathed in golden light INTERVAL AT COVENT GARDEN Above ...

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... A new star-- whether of planetary or merely meteoric quality, time alone will determine --blazed brilliant in the firmament of lawn tennis for one crowded hour last week. Its dazzling course totally eclipsed the British sun and almost made new rings round the Davis Cup team's Saturn! This new star is Mr. C. E. Hare no rabbit, he who defeated decisively, by two sets to one, a Fred Perry still ...

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... THIS MECHANIZED AGE Anti-Aircraft Tunnel Repairs Flood Relief Sea Trip for Locomotive Two Respiration Devices 'ARCHIE The latest type of anti aircraft gun in action at Aldershot. On rieht-- MINERS ON RAILWAY WORK: Shoring up the tunnel near Whitehaven (Cumberland). This is eighty yeap-s old. It takes three weeks to repair a section 8 ft. long as work can be carried on only between midnight and ...

... Beauty in Distress Three Lakes which May be Popularized Out of All their Charm masrrfaLys sonfinnHMHHr J SILVER MIRRORS IN THE CIRCLING HILLS Buttermere, Crummock Water, and Loweswater form one superb strath which may be offered for sale in Keswick in June if it is not sold as a whole before that. Sheep breeding and the visitors are the two industries on which the small population subsists. ...

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... VIGN ETTES °f the SEAS ON Tn order to record certain facets of the present London season, The Sphere puts before its readers the above scries of pictures of Intimate Moments in the life of social beauties of the hour. The London season reveals the triumph of human elegance as perhaps nowhere else at the present time, and to record this fact, the aid of Mr. Ronald Morrcl, the distinguished ...

... Tk LOCH NESS MONSTER s„ W a Mont LocIt Ness Subject to /Mirages After a summer season, during which the Loch Ness monster was seen and even encountered under a variety of conditions, the waters of the loch were stilled during the months of winter, No silvery line in the wake of a projecting head was reported, and the scoffers said to themselves and their friends that the monster was dead. ...