... Italia Conti, whose pupils are giving a big vaudeville show next Saturday at the Holborn Empire, is telling some of her girls a story that they have often heard how she picked up Rosalind, the school mascot and pet, after the dog had been run over on the Great North Road. And Rosalind, as befits an inmate of a dramatic school, acts hurt and wounded as the tale is re-told. Italia Conti has been ...

... ^Cbts England ilbte England Isle of Wight from Stenbury Down ONCE a beloved playground of the Romans, Vectis the gentle suffered like the rest in the rough and tumble that is English history. Here is many a tale of raid and rapine, even of a Christmas feasting spoiled five hundred years ago, the day being spent in driving off the French. Later (a pretty tale) when Boney's menace lay upon our ...

... cJ asliion as by (Sll glabella Scott Buslie IT' S always a good time lor cruising, but as soon as February is fairly over and March under way one begins to look forward to that special Easter trip. The new Dunlop coats here is one example are ideal for cruising or any kind of travel. They are made in tweeds and homc-spuns from Shetland, Scotland, and Cum berland, and many 01 the materials are ...

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... /i 1\ J *1 The Bystander's Review of (jrettmg Married Weddings and Engagements Monica Fretigny Pantm Is the eldest daughter of the Hon. H. F. Pantin of Grenada B.W.I. and 6, Brockley Avenue Stan- more, Middlesex. She is engaged to James Patch ett, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Patchett, of Longdon House, near Wellington, Shropshire Catherine Bell Nancy Lorraine Belsliam Is engaged to Bertram ...

... GOING AWAY The Bystander's March Travel Guide By Hugh C. Wallace GOING AWAY COMPILED BY ONE OF THE MOST INVETERATE AND EXPERIENCED OF TRAVELLERS, THIS SECTION OF THE BYSTANDER APPEARS EACH MONTH. IT DISCUSSES THE IDEAL CRUISES AND RE SORTS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR IN GOOD TIME FOR RESERVATIONS TO BE MADE Lakes and Rivers Switzerland IT looks as if this is going to be a Swiss year. People who are ...

... LUGANO LOCARNO TESSIN, SOUTHERN SWITZERLAND for Spring and Summer HOLIDAYS on the shores of Lake Lugano and Maggiore, catch all the sunshine. Ideal holidays, delightful climate, scenery and Southern vegetation (Mimosa, Camellias, Prunus, etc.), Kursaal, all sports. Pleasant entertainments, wonderful excursions. Regicnal Season Tickets A friendly welcome and thoroughly comfortable accommodation ...

... Mary Anne Maud Sigrid Gretton's First House Party Mr. and Mrs. John Gretton's baby daughter teas christened from Stapleford Park, her grand father's home near Melton Mowbray. In this house-party group are Lady Mansfield and Mrs. Teddy Brook her godmothers, Lady Floyd, her aunt, Mrs. John Grelton, her mother, the Duchess of Newcastle, another godmother, Sir Henry Floyd, Mr. John Gretton, her ...

... r' T a tier Time the shiny weeklies are the butt of Gabrielle Brune Sketch), Michael Wilding Tatler), Hermione Gingold Vogue Walter Crisham Harper's Doris Gilmore Tatler Jack McNaughten Bystander The Bare Idea 99 Reginald Beckwith as the only male strip tease artist Beauty Beauty 99 Hermione Gingold satirises the Women's League of Health and Beauty Photographs by Angus McBean Every ...

... The Sleeping Princess The Ballet Which the King and Queen, the French President and Mine. Lehrun Will See To-night Studies in action of the Aurora pas de deux, danced by Margot Fonteyn and Robert Helpmann Below: the finale of the pas de deux and two positions of the Princess Aurora's variation ...

... Engaged Lady Barbara Abney-Hastings LesB than a year after she came back from Munich to London for her first season, Lady Barbara' Abney-Hastings has announced her engagement. Her fiance is Walter Strickland Lord, son of the late Captain and Mrs. A. F. Lord, of Chudleigh, Devon. She is the eldest daughter of Major R. M. C. Abney-Hastings and the Countess of Loudoun, of Loudoun Castle, Galston, ...

... Engaged Lady Rosemary Eliot Pearl Freeman Lady Rosemary Eliot's engagement to Edward Christian Frederick Nutting was announced two weeks ago. Both have their friends and interests in the hunting, racing, polo worlds. He is the second of the three sons of Sir Harold Nutting, Bt., and Lady Nutting, of Quenby Hall, Leicestershire, is in the Royal Horse Guards, and is twenty-two, two years older ...