... STAGE CRAFT OUR THIRTY-SEVENTH FIRST- PRIZE WINNER. his excellent study of a young actress engaged in making-up before going on tn the stage has been awarded the thirty-seventh first prize in our AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS' COMPETITION. It tvas taken by Mr. D. L. Birkin, with a Zeiss Super Ikonta camera. Film Kodak. Exposure l-10th second at J.3.5. The runner-up prize-winning photographs selected ...

... . These fine runner-up prize-winning studies submitted in connection with our AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS' COMPETITION take us round the world, for they illustrate the beauty of the seaside in Japan, Sussex, New South Wales, and Italy, and thus provide a beautifully contrasted quartet of watery beauty from Asia, Europe and Australia. THE JAPANESE INLAND SEA by Mr. Albert Klestadt. Taken with a Leica ...

... PORTRAIT AND SHADOW- SHOW. This cleverly-posed portrait of LADY HELEN JESSEL shous her facing the camera, while her pet dog is seen in profile and in silhouette as part of the shadow-show provided by the bird ornaments on the graduated steps. She is the third daughter of the Marquess and Marchioness of Londonderry and married the Hon. Edward Jessel, only son of Lord and Lady Jessel. in 1935. ...

... Our learned friends, to do them justice, certainly know what's what. Observe the whisky in the glasses (Exhibits A and B). It is . And if anybody asks What is ? he is obviously no judge of fine whisky. is not merely a fine whisky. It is all the finest whiskies of Scotland, aged and mellowed in the wood, and most skilfully blended into one. Gentlemen! your Brief interlude ...

... MARGOJ FONTEYN dances the part of the Princess Aurora in the new Sadler's Wells production of Tchaikovsky's THE SLEEPING PRINCESS in its entirety, which was due for its gala premiere on Thursday last, February 2, in aid of the Housing Centre. H.M. Queen Mary arranged to attend this performance. JUNE BRAE as the Lilac Fairy in The Sleeping Princess The whole of the Vic-Wells Ballet appear in ...

... Perfume's ID ft HAUNTING ALLURE NEARLY every woman in the world can seem more lovely than she is, and if she makes no effort to be so, then surely she proves herself insensitive to the delicate vibra tions that can make life so sweet and so bewilderingly full of unsuspected beauty. It is mainly a matter of the spirit, and certainly it has nothing to do with artificiality, though it may owe ...

... , COWLEY, OXFORD , Sole Exporters Morris Industries Exports Limited, Cowley, Oxford, England M.350 MORRIS RECORD SALES are the finest *mA%,cr when buying a car On the goodwill of each separate owner, Morris have built the greatest sales the British car industry has ever known. This goodwill, spread sincerely by word of mouth, by obvious enthusiasm in the car, has become in its cumu lative ...

... . By SANDY BUNKER. WHEN a howling north-easter drives a scurry of snow across the landscape and week-end golf is out of question, an amusing and probably fruitful hour or two may be spent in the golfer's library. It has always been my opinion that more can be learned in half an hour with a com petent tutor than by hours of reading. I have no inten tion of belittling the efforts of the experts ...

... H. G. WELLS MEETS A DUCK BILLED PLATYPUS. This striking study of MR. H. G. WELLS, the distinguished novelist, shows him making friends with a remarkable creature, Jill, the duck-billed platypus. When passing through Melbourne on his way to Canberra, Mr. Wells expressed a desire to see a live duck-billed platypus so was taken to the Sir Colin MacKenzie Sanctuary at Healesville, where he met ...

... WHEN I WAS LAST A -FISHING. SOME time ago I made reference on this page to the somewhat cur ious theory that the presence of eels in a lake tended to make trout surface-feeders. In the case of lakes pos sessing limited areas of shallow water the theory impresses me as a plausible one, and the converse is even more acceptable. That is to say, it eeis are exter minated in a lake, then the ...

... . The most illustrious painters have enjoyed painting 44 free copies or translations into their own individual idiom of the work of earlier masters. Rubens, for instance, painted versions of Mantcgna and Titian. Rembrandt of Diirer and Mogul miniatures, Degas of Bellini, Poussin, and Lawrence. And so on. In the Storran Gallery's EXHIBITION OF PARAPHRASES (FREE COPIES) will be found a series of ...

... . By SANDY BUNKER. MODERN clubs and balls have made golf artificial, said Sandy Herd, the famous veteran ex- champion, during a speech at the Herts Alliance din ner. Now Herd is not the type of man to throw his Scottish caution to the winds moreover, he is the finest golfer of his age living to-dav. At seventv Herd could probably give most players ten years and a beating, since he still ...