... WEDDINGS AND ENGAGEMENTS Marrying Today. Mr. R. M. K. Slater and Miss Barbara Murdoch are being married today at St. Nicholas's, Linton, and another wedding this week is that of Lieutenant- Commander N. Lanyon, R.N., and Miss Bridget Nixon. This takes place at St. Peter's, Cattistock, on August 5. Recent Engagements. Mr. F. M. Beale, Royal Artillery, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Beale, ...

... WITH SILENT FRIENDS By RICHARD KING A Good Peace- Time Solution. ONE of the most depres sing prospects of our present mode of life is, apart from its inevitability under the circumstances, the awful thought that it may go on and on for at least another gener ation. That is, even if war comes not and every thinking and feeling man and woman in the world de voutly prays that the world will never ...

... By HENRY LONGHURST WHERE and when did you see your first golf-shot played? Perhaps it was a red-coated gentleman seen on the Common from the window of a railway carriage: or it may have been the Great Triumvirate who gave you your first introduction to golf in an exhibition match. If you belong to a later generation, perhaps it was the first time you were permitted to walk round with father. ...

... THREE SMART GIRLS-- AND ONE (OR TWO) MEN Louis Hayward plays two roles in the film version of Alexandre Dumas' thrilling story, The Man In the Iron Mask which will be presented at the Odeon, Leicester Square, on Sep tember 4 being seen both as the unpleasant Louis the Fourteenth and as his gallant twin brother, Philippe, friend of the Three Musketeers. Joan Bennett plays Maria Theresa, who is ...

... LADY HOWARD OF EFFINGHAM Photos.: Hay Wright son, New Bond Street Two recent portrait-studies of the wife of the Earl of Effingham's heir. The family, as even Smith Minor knows, reckons among its ancestors that Howard of Effingham, aided and abetted by Drake, who put paid to the hopes of Philip of Spain and also to Sidonia, his landlubber admiral. Lady Howard of Effingham is the daughter of Mr ...

... BUBBLE andSQUEAK THE absent-minded professor and his wife were going out to dine. Just as they got outside the house, the professor put his hand up to his head. Wait a minute, dear, he said, I 've forgotten my hat. He went back into the house and was gone for several minutes. When he finally rejoined his wife he was still without his hat. His wife eyed her hus band's bare head. Where 's your ...

... m THE furs at Bradleys, Chepstow Place, are always exceptionally beautiful. The skins are specially chosen and worked in an artistic and unusual manner, and the wraps are always helpful to the figure. Furthermore every woman will welcome the news that special summer prices prevail until Septem ber 9, even for the models which have only recently arrived in these salons. They would of course, be ...

... I 5 fa 'difference PERFECTLY tailored and cut is the tweed ensemble on the left from Finnigans. It consists of a skirt and long coat. The former is straight, but so arranged that the movements of the wearer are never handicapped, while the latter has a slender izing swing back. And the price? Well, it is 14i guineas. The pullover below is made of fingering yarn with cotton crochet collar and ...

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... And the I World Said THIS week and next I share my flying visit to Norway with you; an expurgated diary from the Inter-Parliamentary Conference at Oslo, which I hope will make what publishers call holiday fare. I left the holiday fare at Deau ville where Madame Joerggen Bagge and her ex-polo-player husband (who had Lady Kathleen Rollo staying with them one weekend) gave a lunch for Madame Paul ...

... UNITED WE STAND-- ABROAD AND AT HOME A CONFERENCE OF THE GOVERNORS OF OUR WEST AFRICAN COLONIES Addison A group of especial interest in these hours of crisis which was taken at the first Conference of the Governors of the British West African Colonies which took place in Lagos, Nigeria, from August 10 to 18, 1939. The picture, which was taken at Government House, Lagos (on August 12, 1939), ...

... Though this year the number of English visitors enjoying a Venetian interlude is comparatively small, Italy's Lido has a fine showing of their own nationals. Of those encoun tered by our camera, the Conte and Contessa Uberto Palas- trelli di Celleri have an official link with London, he being the Duca del Monte's successor as Assistant Militarv Attache at the Italian Embassy in Grosvenor ...