... To-night at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Margot Fonteyn and Robert Helpmann will dance their leading roles in The Sleeping Princess before the most distinguished company assembled to watch ballet since before the war. The King and Queen and their guests, the President of the French Republic and Mme. Lebrun, and members of the Royal Family will sit in a great Royal Box in the centre of ...

... Miss Frances MacLeod Is of Scots-Canadian stock, was staying at the Casa Blanca Hotel in Jamaica. She is a landscape architect, trained at the celebrated Lowthorpe School in Boston. , she was doing water-colours of Montego Bay Mr. and Mrs. John King Reckford Mrs. Armitage and Capt. Topham The couple above on the left are pencil king and queen, he being chairman of the Venus Pencil Company Mrs ...

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... The state visit of the President of the French Republic and his wife and his Foreign Minister was the most important home event of last week. A full programme of traditional kind City luncheon (p. 446), reception by Parliament (p. 447), Embassy banquet (p. 451), Covent Garden ballet gala (pp. 448-9), visit to Windsor (where this picture was taken) passed oil without incident, while the variety ...

... Tallulali Bankhead Gets Home Eight years ago the highly-charged, golden-haired daughter of the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives went back to her country after making a reputation of star rank here. And English who had fought to sit and be thrilled by her personality and acting in They Knew What They Wanted, Her Cardboard Lover, Camille could not believe that her compatriots were ...

... New York Letter By Lorine Pruette Swing Without Jam THE jitterbugs have been betrayed. It 's all pretty sad-- in fact, it 's terrible. For the betrayer is none other than Benny Goodman, their idol and their king. This excellent musician, leader of a hot swing band, shows in a recent article in Colliers that he could do nicely without his more violent enthusiasts. fie describes the first ...

... Debutantes Two of the leaders of this years American debs are seen in the sea at Porcupine Beach Hope Saunders whose elder sister Lucy earned the nickname Luscious Ludie when she came out and Marion Oates, of Montgomery, Alabama, daughter of Mrs. Philip Gosler Deb's Mother and A.D.C.'s Guest This picture was taken at Lady Williams-Taylor's place, Star Acres, on Canadian Ridge Mrs. Watriss is ...

... The Bystander £500 Golf Trophy Competition Weston-super-Mare Re-visited By J. S. F. Morrison THE seventh meeting for the BYSTANDER £500 Golf Trophy was played this year, for the second consecutive time, on the course of the Weston-super-Mare Golf Club. It resulted in a very popular win for Frank G. Smith, of the Berrow Artisan Golf Club, the members of which play on the course of Burnham and ...

... News Reel People in Pictures From Four Continents The. Crown Prince and Princess of Iran The marriage contract between the Shahpur Mahommed Riza, nineteen- year-old Crown Prince of Iran, and Princess Fawzia, seventeen year- old sister of King Farouk of Egypt, teas signed in Cairo amid great popular rejoicing. In about three weeks, the more elaborate ceremonies of the Iranian wedding will take ...

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