... WHEN I WAS LAST A -FISHING. LAST year I gave some particulars of modern methods of marking fish in British Columbia. The latest report of the B. C. Provincial Fisheries Department reveals that a novel method is now being used to speed up the tagging of fish. An instru ment called a tagging-gun has been invented. It looks like a cross between an automatic and a bus-con ductor's ticket-punch. ...

... . ?S MISS SKETCH'S DIARy. FRIDAY, JANUARY 6. To ST A MFORD for the IN FIRM A RY BALL, j always one of the best of the county gatherings of f January. Held in the Assembly Rooms, which are not barrack-like in appearance, like some venues for country festivities, but form an attrac- ssg five d6cor. Temperature, however, was not very 1 high, and we were all glad of fur-cape fashion, I which is ...

... THE MIKADO PREMIERE AND TWO WEDDINGS. T.R.H. THE DUKE and DUCHESS OF KENT attended the gala premiere of the film i version of The Mikado in Technicolor at the Leicester Square Theatre in aid of the Boy Scouts Appeal Fund. rVSO Programme-sellers at the first night of ''The h=/V Mikado included MISS PAMELA BIRKIN, MtM h-^ daughter of Lady Edward Hay and the HON. ELIZABETH SOMERS-COCKS, ...

... FROM START TO FINISH. PLAYS OF THE MOMENT. NO. XVIII.-- UNDER YOUR HAT, AT THE PALACE. 1. Scene a film studio. The stars Jack j Millet (JACK HULBERT) and his wife, Kay Porter (CICELY COURTNEIDGE), dis- j cuss re-takes with the Film Director I J EVAN BRANDON- THOMAS right). f%. Jack Have a good rest, dear we 've a long way to go yet. 2. The stars prepare for a party for the whole company. ...

... : plays. FRENCH WITHOUT TEARS Criterion English life in a French family under graduates and the girl. Very amusing, unth an unexpected finish. AN ELEPHANT IN ARCADY (Savoy) A musical effort to recapture the Golden Age on the part of an Arcadian Academy of Pisa. Eighteenth-century wit and ele gance. Lyrics by Eleanor and Herbert Farjcon Ernest Irving' s adaptation of music of Mozart Scarlatti, ...

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... . GOVERN MENTS make the best neutrals; children are the worst. In between there ain't no such animal. The most candid sight 1 've seen in Scandin avia was the urchins of Bergen mimicking some 200 Japs as they followed them down the streets Japanese who had fled from Berlin after the signature of the Russo-German Treaty. As I left Bergen before the Russo-Jap pact was signed (and the Japanese ...

... ROMANCE OF STEAM RULERS OF THE SEA RULERS OF THE SEA, the new Paramount Picture due at the Plaza on Friday last, November 17, is a fine dramatic film dealing with the romance of steam, and tells the story of the first ship to cross the Atlantic under her own power. Here Captain Oliver (GEORGE BANCROFT) and Gillespie, the Mate (DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JNR.), see rough weather ahead for their ...

... These animal studies have been awarded runner-up prizes in our AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS' COMPETITION. The evacuated mice have a highly topical flavour. The monkey in the pumpkin is described by his owners as our little friend, the seven years old South American monkey child, and the baby and the collie provide a conversation piece of purely British charm. WHERE IS THE TOWN MOUSE GOING by Mr. D. ...

... These admirable studies have been awarded runner-up prizes in our AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS' COMPETITION. The still-life photograph represents a 1st Lifeguardsman of 1815, and was taken from a model in silver. 11 MORE MISCHIEF by Mr. Philip Johnson. Taken with a Leica camera. Film Kodak. Exposure l-60th second at f.4.5. EAST by Mr. C. 0. Thomas. Taken with a Leica camera. Film Kodak. Exposure one ...

... WOMEN IN WARTIME BLACK-OUT sufferers will be glad of these black- and-white kerb-finders from Dickins and Jones, Regent Street. Spotted or striped, they cost 5s. each and make useful and amusing presents. THIS practical Service dressing-case to hang up in billets has been designed by Asprey, of Bond Street. The fittings, which include a metal mirror and shaving kit, are made specially fight ...

... LUISE RAINER AS THE HOUSEMAID- BRIDE. LUISE RAINER, the film star whose performance in The Good Earth roused general admiration arranged to make her London stage debut last week at the Shaftesbury in BEHOLD THE BRIDE, the English version of the play by Jacques Deval. She takes the part of Fran$oise, the bride of Eric Carrington (GRIFFITH JONES), ivho returns home to find his family on the ...