... CO GREYHOUND RACING AT WHITE CITY Whether for the O.A. Critchley Memorial Stakes, to be run on September 30th, the dramatic £3,300 White City at the close of the year's racing or the famous Greyhound Derby in June, training at the G.R.A. Northaw kennels proceeds at the same even tempo the whole year round. Through wooded parkland, os'er Hertfordshire grasslands the daily exercise takes place, ...

... They start jumping down in the West country a bit before anywhere else in the British Isles, excepting Eire, and in spite of all distractions and outside troubles this two-days' Devon and Exeter meeting was enjoyed by all sorts and conditions of our fellow men and women including Parliamentarians (Colonel Acland- Troyte), famous soldiers like General Sir Reggie Barnes (a playmate of Mr. ...

... THE CINEMA AS ESCAPE By JAMES AGATE AMONG those means of escape which today are so popular, and indeed so neces sary, the cinema must rank very highly. Consider this week's new films. Young Mr. Lincoln, at the Leicester Square Cinema, is all about the period, from 1830 to 1842, when the raw backwoodsman was getting ready to become a great man. The plot since even a film about Lincoln must have ...

... WITH SILENT FRIENDS By RICHARD KING Jamaica Narrative. ONCE upon a time it used to be a kind of final reproach to quote the line about how little a man knows of England who only England knows. At the moment, perhaps, that purblind man is on the more fortunate side as, maybe, most purblind people are at the moment. He is saved a lot of anxiety and worry. For alas the British Empire sprawls ...

... GONE BACK TO ERIN Lord Killanin takes up his residence at the family place in County Galway There were great doings at the end of August at Spiddal House, County Galway, in honour of the homecoming of the 3rd Baron Killanin, who intends, all well, to live there from now on. Since coming down from Cambridge in 1935 (Magdalene educatively followed Eton and the Sorbonne), Lord Killanin has had an ...

... 1 I he former Lady Mary Montagu-Douglas-Scott, youngest; but one of the Duchess of Gloucester's four sisters and next in order of age to H.R.H., has been married to the Marquess of Exeter's elder son since 1929, and her popu larity in Lincolnshire, her husband's home county, is unbounded. They live at Wakerley Manor, near Stam ford, where, in spite of Lord Burghley's political duties as M.P. ...

... THE WYLYE VALLEY HUNT AT PLAY f The Wylye Valley Hunt Gymkhana, like all other entertainments of its species, provided a hatful of fun for everyone at a very appropriate moment. Keeping on keeping on is so tremendously good for national morale. They held it at Woodcock Farm, Warminster, and the hunt backed it up to a man, woman and child. Entries excellent contests keen and the jumping ...

... THE GREATEST OF THESE Bal des Petits Lits Blancs at Cannes France, our stalwart friend, supports many good causes in gala fashion, but the Bal des Petits Lits Blancs in aid of children's hospitals all over the country, is her greatest charity function of the year. Held annually at Palm Beach, Cannes, this grand party has M. Leon Bailby, director of Le Jour as chief organiser. The 1939 ...

... IN THE EYE C )F THE BEHOLDER! A gallery of three who are well known in the social world and, as to two of them, in that wider one of the satrapies of the British Empire. The Hon. Mrs. Langton Iliffe, the former Miss Renee Mirandon du Plessis, married Lord Iliffe's son and heir last December, and they have their abode in Shakespeare's very own county. Lord Iliffe, as most of the world knows, ...

... One of the most interesting prospects in the film world nowadays is the version of The Women which Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer are screening with a terrific battery of feminine talent. Norma Shearer, after her one excursion into naughti ness in Idiot's Delight, returns to the more or less straight and nirrow in the part of Mary Haines, who is pretty badly pushed about by the cattery which makes up ...

... By SERREFILE THIS may not seem to be an appropriate moment to talk about any game ex cepting the greatest and most exciting of them all, Kriegspiel; but the value of keeping the nation's chin well up in conditions of much peril is incalculable. Morale lost, all lost! Wellington had his pack of foxhounds during that trying Torres Vedras period: he had imitators during the Great War. To keep on ...

... The supremacy of DUNLOP Tyres in world speed records and track and road racing, may seem of small importance to the average car-owner. Reflect, however, that it is these very tests that give DUNLOP experts the experience necessary to build into your DUNLOP tyres the safety and reliability for which the name DUNLOP is universally famous. WITH TEETH TO BITE THE ROAD ...