... BY RAYMOND MASSEY. RAYMOND MASSEY is making a very big success in the title-role of Robert E. Sherivood's Pulitzer Prize Play ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS. in New York. Here he is seen as that great, but lonely and unhappy genius ivrapped in deep thought. Lincoln was born in 1809 and assassinated by Wilkes Booth in 1865. He ivas sixteenth President of the United States, and his opposition to ...

... THE RAPIDS: OUR FIFTY-FOURTH FIRST-PRIZE WINNER.-- A.PO. This dramatic study by Mr. C. H. Woodward has been awarded the fifty-fourth first prize in our AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS' COMPETITION. Tt was taken on the Yoshino River, near Osaka, Japan, with a Baldax camera. Film: Sakura Panchromatic F. Exposure: J -50th second at f.5.6. Yellow filter used. ...

... . CHARLES HENRY GEORGE HOWARD, twentieth Earl of Suffolk and thirteenth Earl of Berkshire, succeeded his father in 1917, and mairied Miss Mimi Forde-Pigott in 1934. Their elder son, VISCOUNT ANDOVER, is three years old, and the HON. MAURICE HOWARD is two. The family seat is Charlton Park, Malmesbury. Before her marriage Lady Suffolk teas very well known on the stage as Miss Mimi Crawford. ...

... G.E.86CX Question: Lobster, lobster, tell me do, What is best to drink with you Answer Gourmets everywhere agree Guinness goes down best with me. There's nothing like a ...

... . ROBERT E. RIGGS, the twenty-one-year-old Chicago tennis player, by virtue of Donald Budge's retirement from the amateur ranks, becomes America's leading exponent of the game. He is, in many ways, a worthy successor to Budge. As uninteresting to watch, from a spectacular point of view, as was René Lacoste, he is as interesting a player from the technical point of view as was the French ...

... . THE Whitsuntide exodus may have been general, but it was short. By the Tuesday evening many celebrities were back in London, all present and correct, for the first performance of Tristan und Isolde this season, with the French prima donna, lime. Germaine Lubin, in the title-role. She 's the loveliest Isolde, sings magnificently and also acts splendidly. After the first act I heard one ...

... Members of the Royal Family appeared on the balcony of Buckingham Palace to watch the Duke of Gloucester take the salute on the return to the Palace after the Trooping the Colour. H.R.H. the DUCHESS OF KENT spent most of the time explaining to her two children PRINCE EDWARD and PRINCESS ALEXANDRA, what was going on, and in keeping them quiet, just like any young mother. The occasion was QUEEN ...

... IN my opinion, one of the hallmarks of a great tennis player is her ability to come back after a long absence from the game. Because Dorothy Round, now Mrs. Little, is rapidly succeed ing in doing this she only confirms my opinion that she is the best English player since Mrs. Godfree and Mrs. Holcroft Watson. I had the pleasure of playing against Dorothy in the semi-final round of the Priory ...

... J 0*f I . TV ON DAY next, June 19, is joy- day for balletomanes, for it is the opening night of the season of Russian Ballet at Covent Garden pre sented by Educa tional Ballets, Ltd., with the London Philharmonic Or chestra. The reper toire includes many [Continued opposite. established favour ites, and three new productions. The first of these, Lich- ine's Le Fils Pro- digue, to music by ...

... EVENING BLOUSES Fresh and crisp and charming for summer evenings, the new blouse- and-skirt dresses are enjoying an enormous success. This one has a tremendously wi e black skirt flowing from a tiny waist, with an ethereal blouse of white embroidered muslin. ANDALUSIAN DANCER Here is one of the newest evening silhouettes. Balenciaga made this dress with a tight black ottoman silk bodice and a ...

... THE FOOD OF LOVE. A MUSIC ARTICLE BY EDWIN EVANS. THE weather is nearly always kind to Glynde bourne, but this year it made a special effort to give the Opera an auspicious send-off. The operas chosen for the two opening nights were the brightest of the Mozart comedies Le Nozze di Fi garo and the only tragedy in the repertoire, Verdi's Macbeth, both of which were performed with that easy ...

... . By SANDY BUNKER. THE age of miracles is evidently not ended. I read of such golfing feats as fif teen drives, 500 yards in length, or longer; of five consecutive shots at a 400-yards hole that hit the pip, and wonder, am I dreaming? No there is no doubt that these amaz ing strokes were accom plished, witnessed and vouched for by impartial spectators. Jiven tor tne United States, where most ...