... IN A HAPPY HOUSE Colour Creates Restful Harmonies and Beauty is in Small Things 'THERE can be no mistake about the atmosphere of a house. It dominates schemes of decoration and the arrangement of valuable things, and either it is warm and welcoming, or the house has failed utterly in its purpose. It is something intangible, built up of coloui and pleasing grouping, and reflecting th character ...

... White Russians Hold Their New Year Rites on Broadway British Players Chosen for Leading Roles in Hollywood's Screen Version of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights HAILING 1939 IN THE MANNER OF THEIR FOREFATHERS: White Russian members of the cast of a Broadway play gathered round a table in their greenroom where, on January 13, they observed the Russian New Year in traditional fashion. They ...

... A NOTED JOURNALIST PASSES The Death of Mr. Ernest Hope Goddard VY/ith the passing of Mr. Ernest Hope Goddard, for many years assistant editor both of the Illustrated London News and of the Sketch, pictorial journalism loses an outstanding figure. Mr. Goddard, who was fifty-nine years of age, died at his home in Woburn Square, Bloomsbury, on January 23 after an illness of two or three months. ...

... MiCIKIAIfcSDCM WB,E> 3nID3 I (J CJKDhk A novel apparatus tor testing the skidding properties of road surfaces at high speeds, consisting of a powerful car to which is attached a trailer with the wheels set at an angle of 12 deg. carrying instruments recording the amount of friction between the wheels and the surface. These trials are being carried out by the Road Research Laboratory FLAW ...

... A restful atmosphere is assured the visitor to Hans Crescent Hotel. A first class cuisine and careful consideration of guests' varying needs combine to make the hotel one of the best that London can offer. Facing Harrods, adjacent to Hyde Park, Ideal for Receptions and Private Dances (Sprung Dance Floor). Brochure on request. HANS CRESCENT HOTEL ■tr ,l. I C W 1 Telephone Sloan e 3421. ...

... Flight-- A Young Barcelona Refugee Pictured as She Was About to Leave the City on the Approach of the Victorious Insurgent Army After close on five weeks of almost uninterrupted fighting, during which the Spanish Government forces, suffering from scarcity of food and handicapped through lack of arms, doggedly strove to stem the tide, General Franco's victorious army reached the gates of ...

... Ti Dnin: J ll_ Dl 177 A D P\ How Last Week's Snowstorm Complicated Matters I lit DKlUt and ImG LJ LI /A fx L/ at the Hon. Anne Wigram's Windsor Castle Wedding A DAY THEY WILL NEVER FORGET The Hon. Anne Wigram, only daughter of Lord Wigram, Permanent Lord-in-Waiting to the King and Deputy-Constable of Windsor Castle, leaving St. George's Chapel in a snowstorm after her wedding last week to Mr. ...

... Where Women Wc Work and Men Laze Life Among the Tai People of Indo-China TO INDICATE HER MARRIED STATE this woman of the Tal tribe wears a bun on the top of her head, whereas a young girl would wear it on the nape of her neck. The Tais live on the Papien Ho (Black River) In the northern region of French Indo-China, not far from the borders of Yunnan 'in China proper. They are an agricultural ...

... The Pick __ A Demolishing Historic Buildings to Make Falls on Whitehall Gardens: HThc people of London have of recent years witnessed regretfully a host of changes that they could justly inveigh against changes that have inevitably brought with them a very real sense of personal loss. Now it is Whitehall s turn, and already the west side of that stately thorough fare is undergoing an extra ...

... A London 32-34 St. Bride Street, E.C. 4 Wednesday, February 1, 1939. THE PREMIER AT HIS BEST. --Birmingham deserved to be honoured by the Premier at his best. He never made a finer speech and it is natural that he should reserve that best for the great city that is the cradle of Chamberlains, their nurse and their staunchest supporter. It was indeed a, grand speech. There was a new strength ...

... Australian Fire Havoc AS THE FLAMES ADVANCED ON THE TOWN OF NARBETHONG, in one of the greatest bush fires in Australian history, a daring cameraman obtained this spectacular shot. Over sixty lives were lost in Victoria State and the damage to property has been immense. It was an exceptional instance of a top fire, with flames leaping through the foliage, as distinct from the usual ground ...

... elona Without Opposition Capital Fell Arouses Barcelona's Enthusiasm ■melted almost to enthusiasm, and long- ^fcarted friends and relations picked their ^Kvay among the faithful trench shelters ^fend refuges now vacant at last, queued ■up at public fountains for what scanty ■supply of drinking water was still to be ■had, or adjourned to restaurants, there ■to consume their spoil, and hopeful ...