... FUR-TUFTED FOR CH/C. LADY DIANA ABDY, the wife of Sir Robert Abdy Bt is wearing one of the very latest hats. It consists of a tiny velvet cap with a huge tuft of fur on the front rising above the silky curls of the tcearer's hair. Lady Diana is the elder surviving daughter of the Earl and Countess of Bradford. Her sister, Lady Anne Bridgeman, is engaged to Viscount Cowdray. PHOTOGRAPH BY HARLIP. ...

... MiiiiiiiimiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiimnimiiiiiiiiiiiiimmiuMuuim r j THAT BRITISH INSTITUTION-BALLET: wmMHWmtminmtmimmimmnmmMmmutiHmmmmmmmnmmmumummmHumnumtumiMmumuiMmimnmimunmtmuimmmmmimmtttHmuummmmmmmHiMMiHmmiMimMi THE VIC-WELLS COMPANY AT REHEARSAL. I 1/ MARY HONER (second from left), JUNE BRAE and PAMELA MAY (fourth and fifth from left), and other ballerinas watching a Vic- Wells ...

... THE FOOD OF LOVE. A MUSIC ARTICLE BY FRANCIS TOYE. THE SINGING OF MADAME PAGLIUGHI. PERUSAL of the notices in the daily Press of Madame Pagliughi's recital at the Queen's Hall the other day may scarcely have given the ordinary reader an idea of how successful it actually was. How successful and, I may say, how important. Not that the notices were unfavourable. They were very favourable, but ...

... macabre achievement by BEATRIX LEHMANN. MISS BEATRIX LEHMANN, the young actress who won such laurels in the name-part of Mourning Becomes Electra last year gives a remarkable performance as Emmy Baudine in THEY WALK ALONE, the murder- thriller produced at the Q Theatre some two months ago and presented last week at the Shaftesbury. In this blood curdling piece she plays the part of a Cornish ...

... JTrrrrirrr::-- 7-.:; TTrrrrTr: PAULETTE GODDARD'S full-face and profile are to be admired in this attractive study of her in M.-G.-M.'s Dramatic School. She has just been seen in The Young in Heart, at the Odeon. Red fox is extravagantly used on this beige tweed suit worn by Paulette Goddard in Dramatic School. What looks like a muff is actually a tweed pochette bag gone furry on one ...

... TUNE SKETCW DIIABS# r ITaimiicn EDITED BY OLIVE CALEY* SMITH GREY is a starred colour for the spring. Especially grey allied with vivid tones. It is used for the suit of Linton Cumberland Homespun, the jacket and the front of the very square-looking box coat striped in brick and green. Grand for bright days, Cheering for dull ones. And all for i8il guineas at Harrods. CASUAL suits will all ...

... NEW BULK I ACCENTUATING I NEW SLENDERNESS I SCHIAPARELLI'S magnificent white ermine evening coat, the fur worked horizontally and falling in loose folds from gathered shoulders. It is worn with violet gloves over a violet velvet dress. WHEN is a fur coat not a fur coat The answer is when Heim mounts silver fox on a foundation of black cloth, drawing the sash tightly round a slender waist, to ...

... Hbts EnylanC* Melbury Beacon in Dorset THE winter and rough weather that do still overset the ways of our civilisation brine; to mind an ancient weather-saw for this time of Candlemas. The sixteenth-century rhyme runs; If Candlemas-day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight; But if Candlemas-day be clouds and rain, Winter is gone and comes not again. Another version beginning; ...

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... . These dramatic studies of different aspects of human life submitted in connection with our AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS' COMPETITION I have been awarded runner-up prizes. It is interesting to note that, in order to make the watchman's brazier blaze pictorially, the camera artist fed it with several waste films. A home-made spotlight using photoflood was employed to take the study of the Braille ...

... II II II II S MISS SKETCH KEEPS A DIARY. MISS SKETCH'S DIARY. I SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11. j Glorious sunshine and crisp, delicious air made everything perfect for my expedition to Little Tew for the first of the Varsity Grinds, THE CHRIST CHURCH (OXFORD) POINT- TO-POINT, where fields were above the average, and simply crowds and' crowds of the younger set turned up to watch. Nice becoming day ...

... Tut Skitciu Diia ww or Fasiicn EDITED BY OLIVE CALEY-SMITH PASTEL BEAUTY FOR THE SPRING BEAUTY to-day is neither an accident nor a monument to patience and to art. It is a technique, slick as the mind of a modern woman, designed to fit unobtrusively into the scheme of things that fill her busy life, and as efficient and quick as everything else that wins her approval. It is no longer a ritual, ...