... . MISS EDNA SQUIRE BROWN'S Dove Dance in The Little Dog Laughed at the London Palladium, rouses great enthusiasm. This action study, taken in the studio at l-500th second, shows a bird in flight silhouetted against her head. The doves were bought by Miss Brown s father and are said to be descended from the sacred Basra doves, believed by the congregation to whisper messages from heaven in the ...

... WHEN I WAS LAST A -FISHING. MOST English anglers who visit Scotland go to the Highlands, but there is good fishing to be had in Southern Scot land, with the advantage of more moderate charges, both for angling and accommodation. My authority for this statement is Mr. A. J. C. Kerr, of Lockerbie, Rector Emeritus of Wishaw High School, who has written a little shilling guide to ang ling in ...

... c A BREEZY DAY by- Mrs. Edith Blair. Taken with a Kodak camera. Film Kodak. Exposure 1-lOOth second at f.ll Right HOLD HER AT IT, BOYS by Mr. Lionel H. Brough. Taken with a Leica camera. Film Kodak. Ex posure 1-1 00th second at f.6.3. These sea-going studies have been awarded runner-up prizes in our AMATEUR PHOTO GRAPHERS' COM PETITION, and form an interesting contrast to the strange and ...

... . The DUCHESS OF NORFOLK named the new Selsey lifeboat the Canadian Pacific It is the gift of the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company. The DUKE OF NORFOLK is watching the launch. MISS EVE SLINGSBY BETHELL is engaged to Lieut. Warwick Bracegirdle Royal Australian Navy. She is seen practising on the roof of the London Fencing Club. SIR ROBERT VANSITTART, Chief Diplomatic Adviser to the Govern ...

... . ALMOST impossible to believe it, but the season of 1939 is finally, definitely over. Positively last event was, happily, not the washed-out Royal Garden Party, as that would indeed have been a sad wind-up. This year things went on and on, for many notabilities stayed here for the wedding of Lord Hopetoun to Miss Vivien Kenyon-Slaney, the very day before Good- wood opened: and their Majesties ...

... THE RAGE FOR SPY FILMS FIVE OF THE BEST. LE DRAME DE SHANGHAI, at the Academy is a thrilling film of political intrigue and underground plotting in modern China. Ivan (LOUIS JOUVET) has forced Kay (CHRISTIANE MARDAYNE) to work for the sinister organisation The Black Serpent and pays for his villainy with his life. CONFESSIONS OF A NAZI SPY is the First National real life spy-story which is ...

... . By H. E. SYMONS. CHICAGO, according to the movies, is a collection of squalid, smoke-stained tenements inhabited by gangsters and G-men. The main pastime is firing machine guns at the police, at bank managers, and at anybody else whose face you don't happen to like. What a lot of nonsense It was a sunny Sunday afternoon when I drove into Chicago at the head of the Junior Car Club Rally. ...

... WHEN I WAS LAST A -FISHING. SALMON are now busy on the spawning-beds. They make a nest of sorts for their ova, forming a hollow in the gravel and filling it again as the eggs are laid. Having finished the redd, as it is called, the salmon has no further in terest in its offspring. Parental instincts are more highly developed in some other fishes. To a point, the male stickleback is an ...

... . CAPTAIN J. M. McNEILL, R.A., only son of Brig.-General and Mrs. Angus McNeill, married MISS BARBARA MARSH, daughter of the late Colonel Cunliffe Marsh at All Saints', Ennismore Gardens. Belotv MISS HELEN BLANE, captain of the British Ladies' Ski Team, and only child of the late Commander Sir Charles Blane, Bt., R.N., and of Lady Blane, is engaged to Mr. William Robert Tomkinson, elder son of ...

... MANETOMANIE MOUVEMENTEE. BAR AUX FOLIES BERG&RE, the Ninette de Valois ballet to Chabrier music, based on the famous Manet picture, is in the repertoire of the Ballet Rambert at the Duchess Theatre. Here La Goulue (PRUDENCE HYMAN) shocks the Gargon (WALTER GORE). In this striking photographic impression of the Bar aux Folies Bergere, the fun is shown at its height. The Barmaid herself ...

... . WE are accustomed to admire Manet's famous picture LA BAR AUX FOLIES BERGERE in the nineteenth-century French room at the National Gallery and when peace comes again we shall be able to see it once more. In the meantime we can go to the Duchess Theatre, where Ninette de Valois' ballet based on this masterpiece is in the Ballet Rambert reper toire. The music is by Chabrier. The Garfon (WALTER ...

... A MUSIC ARTICLE BY EDWIN EVANS. THE musical world has revived suf ficiently to supply practically all our needs except one. It provides us with concerts the timing of which is more varied than ever it was under normal conditions. Con certs begin at 12.30, 1, 2.30, 3, 5, 6, 7, and what more would you have The luncheon-hour is virtually a discovery. Apart from the concerts at the National ...