... Weather Upsets Hockey Plans International Team Building Under Difficulties SO seriously has the severe weather of recent weeks interfered with the hockey pro gramme, not only in this country but in Scotland, Wales and Ireland, that it is no longer safe to say any match will be played. Last Saturday the East v. Combined Services game was postponed; so were the Lancashire v. Yorkshire fixture ...

... THE first big golf event of the year, the Pre sident's Putter, was played at Rye last week, and won by J. O. H. Greenly, the young Oxford Blue. He beat D. H. R. Martin, the old Oxford captain, in the final by 4 and 3. The mixed weather was a feature of the meeting. Sunshine on the first day, iron-hard ground on the second, torrents of rain on the third, warmth and wind on the final. WONDERING ...

... Number Six Another Wallace Thriller Adapted for the Stage MAKE-BELIEVE MURDER The police stage a little shooting to try and get Ctesar Valentine to betray himself. Franklin Dyall, a very well-dressed arch-crook Gordon Harker, nobly portraying surprise Bernard Lee, a loafer from the streets; and the corpse (Detective-Inspector Bonnard), Michael Logan. POISONED BRANDY?: I am a descendant of ...

... The Mikado Screened IT is fitting that the first Gilbert and Sullivan opera ever to be filmed should be The Mikado, that prime favourite of audiences all over the world and dramatic societies wherever English is spoken. The Technicolor production, adapted, conducted and produced by Geoffrey Toye, had a suitable send-off at the Leicester Square Theatre yesterday. Of the players, Kenny Baker ...

... TWO barristers were engaged in a heated argument. Finally, one exclaimed, Is there any case so low, so utterly shameful and crooked that you'd refuse it? 1 don t know, replied the other, pleasantly. What have you been up to now Smith was bragging that he could name any brand of spirit, and an onlooker, taking a flask from his pocket, asked the connoisseur to taste that and tell him what it ...

... By David Livingstone-Learmonth /CONDITIONS were perfect when we went to the meet of the Surrey Union at Chaffolds Farm Gate on the road between Newdigate and Rusper. It was warm and soft, and although rain threatened, it did not come. There were several foxes on foot in Jordans and we viewed the first and, I think, the one eventually hunted as fine a specimen as I have seen and equal in size ...

... FLY ON SKIS in the Dolomites with the aid of Jo erb Schuckart's wings, which weigh only 27 lb. SAIL IN AN ICE-YACHT over the lakes of Germany. BICYCLE downhill on ski at St. Moritz. GLIDE from the slopes at Davos. OR JUST WALK on the snow wherever it is. ...

... Modes of the Moment By LORNA CAMERON T70RWARD is the slogan for the new spring hats. Small, flat or slightly hollowed, they are tilted well over the forehead, and, though they look almost too fly away to be practical, are actually securely held by ribbons or nets of veiling. Town models are massed with flowers, swathed with veils or crowned with feathers, but for the country the same lines are ...

... The South African Grand Prix Maseratis Finish First, Second and Third at East London THAT motor-racing is popular in South Africa was evidenced by a crowd of 60,000 that attended the South African Grand Prix on the Prince George Circuit, East London, at the beginning of the month. Italy, making an effort to win the race for the first time, sent over a team of Maseratis, one six-cylinder and ...

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... Rallying to Monte Carlo This Year's Bid by British Motorists By Highwayman SOME 250 motorists from fifteen different nations, all smitten with the annual madness of the Monte Carlo Rally, are now careering across Europe, driving a great deal faster than they would if they could choose their gait, being con tent with the sketchiest sort of meals and going for day after day with a minimum of ...

... By A. Croxton Smith OF the eleven breeds classified by the Kennel Club as toys, the Pekingese continues to maintain the popularity that was asserted in the opening years of this century. Up to that time Pomer anians had held sway, and, before they came in the 1870's, favour was divided between King Charles spaniels and pugs, although we had Italian greyhounds, graceful and dainty as well. The ...