... Cor dell Hull, America's Secretary of State Cordell Hull, the Tennessee judge, son of a well- to-do lumberman, who, under President Roosevelt, has directed America's foreign policy since 1933, ended his year with two very substantial achieve ments to his credit. In November his unflagging work for the firm establishment of non-discrimin atory treatment as the foundation of international trade ...

... WISS WEDDING SUFFOLK WEDDING THREE ENGAGEMENTS WARWICKSHIRE CHRISTENING SECRET WEDDING Miss Primrose Harbord and Mr. d9 Abo Primrose Harbord is the third daughter of Capt. Edward Harbord, and Mrs. Harbord, of Kirk Deighton Hall, Wetherby, Yorks. Edward d'Abo is the youngest son of G. L. d'Abo, of 16, Avenue Road, N.W.8. The Harbord family all went to St. Moritz for Christmas (see page 30) I ...

... Snow Pilgii la's Progress V The Ratische Bahn is warmly remembered by many thousands of winter sportsmen. After the fatigues of the night journey from Boulogne or Ostend, after the early call at Basel, the travellers get out at Landquarl or Choire, and there they find the Ratische Bahn waiting to take them to the Parsenn resorts and the Engadin. The Ratische, not a Swiss Federal railway but a ...

... Eunice Kennedy is one of the large Kennedy family contingent staying at Suvretta House. Her intense concentration as she perched on the step of a car was devoted to the peeling of a hard-boiled egg A brother and sister from Yorkshire's chief winter sports family are Ralph and Molly Harbord. Molly is the youngest of six, and a 1938 debutante. Ralph is a Crest a rider, and two of his sisters, ...

... By Alan C. Hess THE regulations for next year's R.A.C. Rally and Coachwork Competition have now been issued by the Club. As previously reported in these columns, the rally will be held from April 25th to 29th, and will consist of a road section of approxi mately 850 miles, a number of special tests, and the Coachwork Competition. There will be four routes, competitors starting at noon on ...

... Socialite Sisters No. 2. Twins M iss Thalia Gordon Thalia and Anthea Gordon are the twin daughters of Mr. and Mrs, Charles Gordon, of Boveridge Park, near Salisbury. They are a country pair, with hunting, ski-ing and flying as their preferred occupations, and especially hunting, which they do with the Portman they are both excellent horsewomen. Of their two elder sisters, one married Peter ...

... aW Q^, oV teUl *e Z&+J1 \c paces C1,VS The Four Queens of the air start their way up to the hundred-feet altitude of the big top, where the act begins. These girls, Americans, claim to be the loveliest in the circus world. They are making their first English appearance Newcomers to Lon l-'rc0'!* Ugfc) r ifiC^s sceTl scries °f font, ^fteverh01 Lists the gT°Uf naU're f he m Gena Lipkoicska is ...

... \/T *1 The Bystander's Review of Lrettlllg lVlarried Weddings and Engagements Jean Bourne Bromley Is engaged to Dr. Angus John Smith, only son of the late John Smith, of Salisbury, Rhodesia, and Mrs. A. P. B. Smith, of 66, Chelsea Square, 5. W. 3. She is the only daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Bromley, of Castle Hedingham, Essex Bassano Lilian Rae Is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Rae, of ...

... The Passing Hour Comments and Asides By A. G. Macclonell CHRISTMAS festivities being satisfac torily concluded with the help of a certain amount of common sense and a very great deal of bicar bonate of soda, I am taking up the Passing Hour where I left it a week ago. A fortnight ago in the BYSTANDER my colleague, Mr. Wyndham Lewis, for once in a very long while, hit the right nail on the head ...

... A. P. Herbert and Tom Mix The cowboy film star had the good fortune to sit by the politician-humorist, and vice versa, at the Circus Lunch at Olympia. Mr. Mix who is apparently a left-handed drinker, has been over here since September, when he and his horse Tony the Second made their English stage debut at the Palladium Anna Lee and Robert Stevenson Anna Lee ivas going ski-ing in Switzerland ...

... Films of the Day A Good End to a Bad Year By George Campbell A DISAPPOINTING year ended in a blaze of glory with Victor Saville's production of The Citadel. It is one of the best pictures made in 1938. I would go farther and say it is one of the best British pictures made in any year. I can imagine no more effective, reply to the defeatists in British films than this absorbing, amusing, bril ...

... Under Your Hat The Hulbert Courtneidge Musical Comedy Act I. Scene 1, A Chair for Miss Porter Film-star Kay Porter (Cicely Courtneidge) has to take a rest after shooting a brief scene with her co-star husband Jack Millet Hulbert, quarrelling with him about the glamorous vamp, Carol Markojf, and berating the whole studio staff. Her dress is so tight she takes her rest standing up Act. I. Scene ...