... One of the most important of Charity Dances which takes place in the present season is the Empire Ball, which is being held at Grosvenor House on May 24, all the proceeds going to the British Social Hygiene Council. The Ball is being held under the patronage of Her Highness the Princess Marie Louise. The Viscountess Elibank is the president, and anyone better fitted for the task would be hard ...

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... I Lida Barova, who is the heroine of the film Innocence, is one of the many victims of the German drive to the East. The film was made in Prague by Lucernfilm Productions, and was one of three for the Jubilee Festival of 1938, and this present picture, which opened at the Phoenix on April 28, is the last one in which the beautiful young Czech actress appeared. Her country is no more, but many ...

... All the scares and alarums were quite forgotten on the various occasions when these photographs were taken, and evefybody was determined to enjoy themselves, no matter what came afterwards. Perhaps the> ^ou not have been so cheerful if they could have had a pre-view of the Chancellor's Budget speech. The first two photographs are of a most worthy in-aid-of affair, the Tyrolean Ball, held at ...

... By HENRY LONGHURST I SOMETIMES think that the success of a golf club depends not so much on the quality of the course as on the quality of luncheon they give you. I have happy memories of many a comparatively obscure club, where the culinary art of the steward has more than atoned for the shortcomings of nature and the greenkeeper. Most golf clubs these davs offer you a reasonable lunch at the ...

... THE ROYAL VISIT TO BEKC )NSCOT LILLIPUT VILLAGE The royal visit to this marvellous t.1od ...

... By GODFREY WINN THESE girls are shocking! exploded the upright and elderly gentleman, with the All-England Club bow tie, sitting on the bench at my side. It 's due to a defect in their psychological-- or, rather, physio logical-- make-up, I suggested. I do not know what those words mean, my companion, by accident, snorted again. And, what 's more, I don't think you do, either. What I do ...

... By SHALIMAR THE name of the Chinese coolie who caused the disaster to the British steamship Eversfield was never discovered; but as he disappeared, along with two of his friends, immediately after the explosion, his identity probably does not matter very much. The Eversfield, a cargo vessel of about gooo tons gross register, was lying in the open roadstead of one of our large fortified ports ...

... AIR EDDIES By OLIVER STEWART Plantagenet Air Rally. QUAINTLY contrasting thoughts are prompt ed by this Planta genet Air Rally, organised by the Aero Club de I'Ouest de la France at An gers in the latter part of July. Over the tombs of the Plantagenet kings of England, in Fon- tevrault Abbey bizarre gesture from the twentieth cen tury to the twelfth century will fly the aeroplanes of the Rally ...

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