... Edythe Baker D'Erlanger at Home in Mayfair Kansas to Park Street by Means of the Piano Edythe Baker is that romantic phenome non, the small-town girl who made good. She was horn in Gerrard, Kansas, educated in Kansas City until she was fifteen, when she went for the stage, and appeared on it first at sixteen. At eighteen her name hit the electric lights in the Ziegfpld Frolic and, coming here ...

... The Passing Hour Comments and Asides By A. G. Macdonell SENDING an official of the Foreign Office to Russia was at least a move in some sort of a direction, and perhaps the incomprehensible deadlock may at last be resolved. By the time this appears, Mr. William Strang will be in Moscow, and presumably we shall hear something definite in a day or two. It certainly will be high time. The mystery ...

... Gardener's Chronicle June Gala By R. C. Jenkinson Irises and Others LAST week I made a verbal sketch, with plan, of an iris garden. Now for a few names of plants to go into it. I think it best to select one variety in each colour section and concentrate on it. There is only one excuse for having two varieties which are very similar, and that is difference in time of flowering. Among the taller ...

... This bridge, imposing and ugly, stretches from the World's Fair administration building into the Fair proper. It is called a symbol of the span of life, for it traverses the space between the world of to-day and the world of to-morrow (the Fair's theme). Completed in August 1937, the administration building bas since been the headquarters of the Fair's Corporation, and its best office houses ...

... The Intruder Francois Mauri ac's brilliant and subtle pl^y has moved from the Gate Theatre with some changes of cast Peter Coke still plays the part of the intruder the young English boy who arrives to spend two months au pair with a French family. And Mary Hinton is, as she was at the Gate Mme. de Barthas, hostess to the boy, mother of a young daughter, herself a widow to whom the boy's ...

... I our Enga gements Miss Pamela Cayzer Pamela Cayzer is engaged to Captain the Hon. Richard Hamilton-Russell, 17th-21st Lancers, second son of Viscount and Viscountess Boyne. She is the elder daughter of Sir Herbert Cayzer, Bt., and Lady Cayzer, of Tylney Hall, Basingstoke, Hants. Her engagement ivas announced while she teas in India she was expected back in England last week Pearl Freeman Miss ...

... [ohnnie Walker Landing Part) When shall we three meet again-- in Pullman, liner or in 'plane Whe rever it may be, will be among those present. And among those present in will be all the finest whiskies of Scotland, blended with quite extraordinary skill to make an even finer whisky. This skill in blending, and the long years of maturing that precede it, are the secrets of 's uniquely clean ...

... The Davis Cup Encounter at Brighton This Brighton group, taken on the first day of second round (European zone matches for the Davis Cup between Great Britain and New Zealand, consists of C. E. Malfroy N.Z. captain Dennis Coombe (N.Z.J, F. E. Stowe (non-playing G.B. captain and Ronald Shayes (Great Britain Cricket Engagement The engagement an nounced this month be tween E. R. T. Holmes and Mrs ...

... XCbts Englanb ^Lbis Englanb Lunesdale THE English gift for word-pictures is most pleasantly to be seen in the country names for different sorts of assembly. Do you walk upon the hills and you will see a brood of grouse or even, upon some moorlands, a pace of asses. Descending softly through the woods you ma3' disturb a skulk of foxes, while in the marshy lane below, the cattle-drove puts up a ...

... HQ6M& ROYCE H GO PERSR^LIS ROYCE BY APPOINTMENT TO HIS UTE MAJESTY KING GEORGE V i Wte BT APPOINTMENT TO HER MAJESTY 9UEEN MARY ^BETSTTTW? ...

... Getting Married The Bystander's Review of Weddings and Engagements Whitley Forrester-Paton Oliver John Whitley son of the late Rt. Hon. J. H. Whitley, Speaker of the House of Commons, and the late Mrs. Whitley, and Elspeth Catherine Forrester-Paton, daughter of Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Forrester-Paton, of the Gean House, Alloa, Clackmannanshire, were married at Moncrieff Church Alloa Chance ...

... To-night at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Margot Fonteyn and Robert Helpmann will dance their leading roles in The Sleeping Princess before the most distinguished company assembled to watch ballet since before the war. The King and Queen and their guests, the President of the French Republic and Mme. Lebrun, and members of the Royal Family will sit in a great Royal Box in the centre of ...