... . jjjjj THE OBSTACLE; by Mr. R. M. Jaeger. Taken with a Rolleiflex camera. Film: Kodak. Exposure: l-100th second at f.6.3. Yelloiv filter used. WHERE THREE COUNTRIES MEET by Captain Armando Tosi. Taken with a Leica camera. Film Kodak. Exposure 1 -200th second at f.9. Green filter used. This is the moment when most people's thoughts turn towards the delights of ski-running in ...

... I -gj II . MISS SKETCH'S DIARy. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22. Began my Christmas celebrations by attending OLYMPIA CIRCUS OPENING LUNCH, always a big gathering of distinguished people, and found myself among such an amusing selection of the nobility and the gentry, beginning with relatives of our Royal Family, like Lord and Lady Carisbrooke, and including politicians Captain and Lady Diana Cooper ...

... . The MARQUESS OF MILFORD HAVEN and PRINCESS ALEXANDRA OF GREECE. M MRS. KENNEDY, wife of H.E. the United States Ambassa I dor with TEDDY and JEAN KENNEDY. MISS MEGAN TAYLOR in action on the rink at St. Morib PHIL TAYLOR, the acrobatic skating star, leaps a tea-table with ease. MISS MEGAN TAYLOR with COUNT HAUGWITZ- REVENTLOW. MR. JACK OAKIE, of film fame with MRS. OAKIE. MR. LEE TRACY, the ...

... . THE Old Year having gone out with suitable jollity, both in London, with the Chelsea Arts Club revel, and at countless country festivi ties, we shall soon have to consider the coming Little Season and the débutantes who will spread their crinolines and try their step in the Lambeth Walk, the Palais Glide or the fox-trots of this year of grace. I observe that Lord Scarsdale took his eldest ...

... HAIL, KING WINTER I THE AVALANCHE by Mr. R. M. Jaeger. Taken with 1 a Rolleiflex camera. Film Kodak. Exposure 1-lOOth second at f.6.3. Yellotv filter used. j THE MATTERHORN by Mrs. William Younger. Taken f with a Leica camera. Film Agfa. Exposure l-200th 1 second at f.5.6. U.V. filter used. jjjU THE LONE SKI-ER by Mr. R. M. Jaeger. Taken with Jggg a Rolleiflex camera. Film Kodak. Exposure 1-1 ...

... . MISS CHRISTIAN GRANT is the youngest sister of Sir Arthur Grant eleventh Baronet, of the House of Monymusk, Aberdeenshire, and ivill be one of the important debutantes of 1939. She has already had a Scottish season, having attended a number of dances and functions in her native land. The Grants of Monymusk are a branch of the noble house of Grant (Earls of Seafield). The first Baronet, Sir ...

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO THE DIONNE QUINS, Fof Being an All Sisters Panto. Cast. Cinderella (YVONNE) forced to help the Ugly Sisters (ANNETTE and MARIE) prepare for the hall. The Fairy Godmother (CECILIE) about to transform the pumpkin and rats into a glass coach-and-four. Prince Charming (EMILIE) picks up the glass slipper as Cinderella (YVONNE) j leaves on the stroke oj midnight. Cinderella ...

... TAKE OUR ADVICE AND DO NOT FAIL TO SEE; I PLAyS. FRENCH WITHOUT TEARS (Criterion). English life in a French family; undergraduates and the girl. Very amusing with an unexpected finish. AN ELEPHANT IN ARCADY (Kings-way). A musical effort to recapture the Golden Age on the part of an Arcadian Academy of 1 Pisa. Eighteenth-century wit and elegance. Lyrics by Eleanor and Herbert Farjeon Ernest ...

... , ^bts England Wrotham Hill Kent WHEN next you take your ways about the hills and fields, reflect that it is the labour of man that has given them their final beauty. No traveller two centuries ago could laud the lovely countryside too many were the marshlands and the wastes, too frequent the unkempt, forbidding woods that harboured lawlessness. And do you know aught of survey work or drainage ...

... By SANDY BUNKER. AS I write, the year 1938 is passing in a wintry scurry of snow. Golf-courses are clothed in a white mantle, and it looks as though it might be weeks before it is possible to play again. 1 But even by this time the snow, which is the only element that prevents one enjoying a round of golf (rain and wind often do no more than add to the thrills of the game), may have cleared ...

... . It was highly suitable that the three GIANT PANDAS purchased by the Zoo from Major Floyd rangier-Smith should arrive in London during Christmas week for it would be hard to imagine anything more like a circus clown than this rare species of cat-bear found on the borders of China and Tibet It has cost the Zoo £2400 to obtain an adult pair and a nine-months old specimen. 1 he bahy which ...

... THE FOOD OF LOVE. A MUSIC ARTICLE BY FRANCIS TOYE. NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS FOR A MUSIC CRITIC. ONLY the very superior are unaffected by the New Year. The rest of us, even though we may realise that January the First marks a purely arbitrary division of time, continue to feel that there is something different about it, that it really is separated in some mysterious way from Dec. 31. So we go ...