... WHEN I WAS LAST A -FISHING. FROM a Cheltenham schoolboy I have re ceived an interesting account of a pike-fishing incident which occurred while he was in Scotland with a school friend recently. They were told of a pond, reputed to hold big pike, in the Castle Douglas district. Making their way to the pond they found that, except in one place, it was hardly possible to fish owing to a wide ...

... . This fine study of the square-rigged steel four-masted barque Moshulu has been awarded the thirty-eighth first prize in our AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS COMPETITION. It was taken by Mr. James Croskery tvith a folding Kodak C camera. Film Agfa. Exposure l-25th second at f.8. The Moshulu which was built on the Clyde in 1904, is a vessel of 3116 tons engaged in trade between Europe and Australia. ...

... STILL -LIFE AND DESIGN. MOUNTAIN ASH by Mr. H. T. Morris. Taken with a Zeiss lea 5 camera. Film: Kodak. Exposure: one second at f.ll. DESIGN FOR LACE by Mr. Clarence Ponting. Taken icith a Sanderson quarter-plate Field camera. Plate Imperial Eclipse Ortho. Magnesium ribbon for exposure at f.ll. j RAINDROPS ON. ASPARAGUS by Mr. Clarence Ponting. Taken I with a Sanderson quarter-plate Field ...

... - I TV/TISS LUCY I iVl WEBB transforms j bread from or- dinarv cottage I loaves into flowers of every description and paints them by hand. The j I bread is then hardened by a special process and becomes unbreakable. DURING the Florida orange festival, MISS JANE MOORE was able to j aquaplane along a river filled with golden grape-fruit. MISS THYRA SAMTER WINSLOW cooked her prize-winning dainty, ...

... . MISS LUCIE MANNHEIM, the continental actress, is the Nora for the Duke oj York's revival of Ibsen's play A Doll's House, presented under the title of NORA, and revised from William Archer's version. She gives a splendid performance as the most famous heroine in Ibsen's great gallery. Our fine portrait study shows Torvald Helmer's little lark at the moment when she is suffering the shock ...

... . By H. E. SYMONS. WELL, in spite of everything, we got the Cape record. We never thought we should, after that awful crash at Niangara, in the Congo, when our car, with us in it, dived over a fifty- foot-high bridge into a murky, crocodile-infested river. In an earlier article, written from Nairobi, I described how well the Wolseley had travelled up to the time of the accident, breaking the ...

... . MISS CLAUDETTE COLBERT'S latest part is the title-role of ZAZA the new Paramount picture which was due at the Plaza on February 10. The story is set in Paris in 1900, and the heroine is a fascinating young actress who is adored by every man, and envied by every woman. Miss Colbert gets every ounce of value out of the stage and back-stage scenes of this drama of love when the century was ...

... . MUSIC and Charity, two aides to life in this difficult world, have kept us busy. I started with the Opera Circle evening on Sunday, honoured by the presence of Princesses Helena Victoria and Marie Louise, at which Rossini's Messe Solennelle was given. It took place in the hall of the British Architects' new headquarters, and though there was no stage, there was amusing scenery, and the ...

... . The Capad screen version of George PleydeWs stage play THE WARE CASE is first-class entertainment at the Odeon. Here Henson (JAMES LAURIE), the vindictive gamekeeper, watches Sir Hubert Ware (CLIVE ^0 BROOK) and Michael Adye (BARRY K. BARNES) recover the body of Eustace Ede (PETER BULL) from the lake. ^0 CLIVE BROOK (right) plays Sir Hubert Ware, the part created on the ^0 stage by the late ...

... RELAX The New Hair Styles are Easy to Manage HAIR up or hair down Hair short or hair long Every woman is eagerly awaiting the new styles, for at the moment few people know what is going to happen, yet every body is longing for a change from the brushed up line. As usual. Monsieur Raymond gives a lead. In his salons, at 1 8, Grafton Street, some of the most distinguished women in London may ...

... . This portrait of the DUKE and DUCHESS OF WINDSOR was taken at their new home in Paris, 24, Boulevard Suchet. It illustrates the Duchess's perfect taste in dress for ivhat could be more ideal for winter days than the woollen cloque model which she wears, relieved by an original ornament down the front of the bodice, and ivorn with chic examples of modernist jewelled ear-rings She is well ...

... . MISS SKETCH'S DIARy. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4. Out early for the COTTESMORE AFTF.R- THE-BALL MEET AT PICKWELL, in spite of late night at dance the evening before. Such a good ball it was, held at Colonel Gretlon's lovely place, Stapleford Park, and attended by the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and all the Shires celebrities. Many of the ball-dancers were out, either mounted or on foot. Lady ...