... What's On THEATRES Straight Plays The Corn is Green. Emlyn Williams's biographical play is full of life Athene Seyler as a go ahead Welsh scnoolniistress, Williams as her genius protdgd Duchess. 8.30. Wed., Sat., 2.30. Dear Octopus. Cast headed by Marie Tempest, Valerie Taylor, Leon Quartermaine, John Gielgud does justice to Dodie Smith's family portraiture Queen's, 8.15. Wed., Sat. 2.30. ...

... What's On These Foolish Things. The Crazy Gang's show is excellent entertainment value, with a lot of old friends and some new Palladium, 6.15 and 9. Under Your Hat. Jack Hulbert and Cicely Court- neidge's return to musical comedy is a glorious roar from start to finish Palace, 8.15. Wed., Sat., 2.30. Variety Varieties, or what Americans call revues, can be seen in London at the Coliseum (6.25 ...

... THREE WEDDINGS Mr. Pole-Carew and Miss Sonia Quilter Patrick William Butler Pole-Carew and Sonia Quilter were married at the Rpyal Military Chapel, Wellington Barracks, and have gone to Ireland for their honeymoon. He is the youngest son of the late Lieut.-Gen. Sir Reginald Pole-Carew and Lady Beatrice Pole-Carew and is in the Coldstream Guards she is the youngest daughter of Sir Cuthbert and ...

... This year Norman Parkinson visits the French Alps for the Bystan der and these pictures are the first of a series complementary to last season's Snow Holiday Ski-jumping is a sport for very young men. It calls not only for the utmost in nerve and muscle, but for a Weltanschauung which takes no heed of consequences. The crowd waits down below, the judges wait in their box on a tower, the ...

... Palm Springs (1) Playground for Stars and Socialites in the Californian Desert 3 Contessa Dorothy di Frasso, formerly Dorothy Taylor, of New York, and Claud Grahame White's first wife lives in California and entertains largely. She used to own the Villa Madama, where Mr. Chamberlain and Lord Halifax stayed in Rome Charles Farrell and his wife, Virginia Valli, are typically Hollywood stars in ...

... Joe Schench and Two Film Actresses, Cheri Kova and Mae Sunday In the desert 130 miles from Hollywood, Palm Springs is still new enough to be news, even in California where a 1918 building equals Elizabethan. There are no trees except a few palms, and only one spring. Villas, low and Spanish with patios, are built into reddish-brown rocks, like film director Edmund Goulding's group of white ...

... Gardener's Chronicle By R. C. Jenkinson A new series of articles for the victims always increasing in num ber of the happiest of obsessions Flowering Shrubs IN my last article I was talking about the shape of trees, but now let us get back to winter and think about some flowering bushes. I suppose that the first to leap to one's mind is witch hazel, of which there are several varieties. Hama- ...

... i Swiss Snow Season ^avos Moritz Arosa Wengen The lovely white horse belongs to Herr Andreas Gredig, who rides the streets of Davos every morning. He is the proprietor of the Fluella Sports Hotel The Hon Avice Vernon, Lord and Lady Vernon's nineteen year old daughter, is staying at Davos with her father and her schoolboy brother, John. Was photo graphed at the Weissfluhjoch Dagmar Gibson, ...

... I WISH some genius would come along and finally define the amateur status in sport. The Welsh Rugby Union have started violent controversy in the matter again by declaring that Dudley Folland, the Cambridge soccer blue, cannot play Rugby football because he is a 'director of the Swansea Soccer Club. We all know that Rugby football is a strictly amateur game (and long may it remain so). Indeed, ...

... Wanted An Imperial Air Base By Charles Ward The Present Site SEVERAL years have passed since Imperial Airways urged the Government to provide an air base from which flying- boat services to the Empire could be operated. Good communications with London were required by rail and road. The site had to be approachable easily and safely by air. Most important of all, a harbour or stretch of water ...

... , , B U R T O N O N T R E N T ENGLAND ftbts Englanb From Birdlip, Gloucester THE masters of old who cast the greatest spell in words shewed the most indifference to the spelling of words. To say that this and this only is correct, by law and lexicon would have been dismissed by Shakespeare (Shakespear, Shakespere?) as a fussy hindrance to the freedom of his art. What boots it how a word be ...

... By Alan C. Hess THE Monte Carlo Rally ends to-day, and after their ordeal by snow and ice the crews of the cars which win through certainly deserve to be bathed in typical Monte Carlo sunshine. At the time of writing it is impossible to say how Great Britain's representatives have fared, but those who have got through from the Athens starting control, at any rate, must be placed high in the ...