... Few medals and Court breeches and tiaras were left in storage last week during a State visit in whose splendour rank was observed and honoured and traditional pageantry teas fully played up. Of the countless camera-worthy personalities whom the harassed press- photographers found and took, we have chosen Lady Beauchamp, Danish-born peeress whose husband recently succeeded his father, and Lady ...

... Author Michael Arlen, here sitting outside the Carlton Bar will soon be a Riviera celebrity no longer. He and his family are going to settle in Athens. He has lived in Cannes Villa Bella Vista for several years Author's Wife Frau Erich Remarque has been staying in Cannes. Her husband has published nothing since The Three Comrades but has an English contract for his next booh. His home is now ...

... London Bridge North, South, East and West, wherever four good players sit down to a game, it's on the cards that will be on the table. For there are certain qualities that knowledgeable men naturally look for in a whisky. Maturity, mellowness, delicacy, distinction. And naturally they find them all in , because is a blend of the finest whiskies all the finest whiskies that Scotland can ...

... Gardener's Chronicle More Trees and Shrubs By R. C. Jenkinson Almond and Anemone IT is not derogatory to the common almond to depose it from first choice in its family, for when writing last week I had not seen Prunus Pollardii at its best in the open. It is, I believe, a hybrid raised spontaneously in Australia and America be tween almond and peach, and while retaining a flower as large as, ...

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... By Charles Ward THE Royal Aero Club announces that the race for the King's Cup will be flown in September and that an entirely new formula for handicaps has been devised. A leading provincial airport, and presumably one owned by a muni cipality, will provide the grandstand for the event. The lowest speed for handicap is 11ACU d L 1-J.U 11U1C5 clil 11UU1, VVlUli 1J.U 11UUI. on horse-power. It ...

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... *1 The Bystander's Review of LrCttmg Married Weddings and Engagements Pares Rae-Smith Lieut. -Com. Anthony Pares R.N., youngest son of the late G. L. Pares and Mary Rae- Smith, only daughter of Sir Alan and Lady Rae-Smith, of Furzedotmi, Limpsfield Surrey, were married at St. Peter's, Limpsfield Simpson Newey Colin Percy Simpson, younger son of the late A. L. Simpson, and Mrs. A. L. Simpson, ...

... FOUR WEDDINGS Lord Hoivland and Mrs. Hollway Lord Hoivland is the twenty-two-ycar-old heir of the Marquess and Marchioness of Tavistock, and grand son of the Duke of Bedford. Mrs. Clare Brownie Hollway is the youngest daughter of the late E. J. Bridgman and Mrs. Bridgman. They were married just before Easter at Caxton Hall register office Miss Valerie Hobson and Air. Havelock- Allan Anthony ...

... New York Letter By Lorine Pruette Plav of the Year THE most debated play of the year is Family Portrait, which London may not be able to see. I hope you will see it, and with Judith Anderson as Mary, and Margaret Webster as the Magdalene. It is a play about the family of Jesus: how puzzled they were, and sometimes uplifted, sometimes infuriated, by their connection with divinffy. Remember Ben ...

... Mrs. Harold Ross right is the attractive wife of the Nciv Yorker s editor. In a grand white evening dress she sits inform ally in a corner, foot tucked up on the seat Beatrice Lillie wears black-and-white stripes downwards, with a red leather belt round her ivaist. Noel Coward gave her some new songs in Set to Music before he left for England Binnie Barnes wears bluc-and-white stripes across, ...