... WHEN I WAS LAST A -FISHING. RECENTLY I heard an interesting story from a friend in Bath. Returning from a fishless day after roach, a well- known Bath angler met a youngster who had been fishing at Keynsham, where the River Chew runs into the Avon. Responding to an inquiry as to whether he had had any luck, the lad replied that he had caught one good one about six pounds Scarcely crediting ...

... . PORTRAIT STUDY BY YEVONDE. The COUNTESS OF FEVERSHAM is the only daughter of Viscount Halifax the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and one of the men at the helm of the ship of State in this grave time. His well-balanced and nobly phrased statements on the situation delivered in the House of Lords have been closely followed by men and women in every country. Lady Feversham is the ...

... . MISS SKETCH'S DIARy. SATURDAY, AUGUST 26. It mas neither frivolity nor ostrich-like refusal to recognise gravity of situation which allowed me to enjoy ROYAL CORINTHIAN YACHT CLUB'S REGATTA AT BURNHAM-ON- CROUCH, hut just good, old-fashioned common sense. My emergency Voluntary Service in structions in my handbag let me feel at liberty to revel in lovely weather, and George, being in same ...

... . CLARK GABLE and his wife CAROLE LOMBARD, have been enjoying a holiday at their ranch at Encino, California, in San Fernando Valley. He has just finished making Selznick International Pictures Gone With the Wind in which he> plays Rhett llutler, and she has completed R.K.O. Radio's In Name Only. It 's a broiling hot day, but Tuffy, the boxer bidldog, isn't quite sure about the benefits of ...

... . MISS VIRGINIA BRUCE, blonde, blue-eyed M.-.G.-M. star has two hobbies, lawn tennis and sketching, and practises both whenever she has a chance. She was recently seen in Society Lawyer with Walter Pidgeon, and is again teamed with him in Stronger Than Desire a new picture ivhich she has just completed. She began her career by playing small roles in several pictures then appeared in the ...

... . By H. E. SYMONS. QUITE a new idea was put forward recently by Mr. Palmer Phil lips, Sales Director of the Vauxhall concern, who suggested that people did not buy 8-h.p. cars because they were enamoured of cars in that horse-power category, but because the first cost of such vehicles was all that they could afford. He argued that if people could get a io-h.p. car which cost no more, when new, ...

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... I . Right MR. NEVILLE CHAM BERLAIN, tvho to-day bears as heavy a burden of respon sibility as has ever rested on the shoulders of a Prime Minister of this country realises the importance of getting fresh air and exercise daily. He and MRS. CHAM BERLAIN are walking round the lake in St. James's Park. SIR NEVILE HENDERSON, British Ambassador to Germany has had more than one crisis interview with ...

... - MISS VIVIAN M. GOODALL, of Sudbury, Suffolk, is a brilliant young horsewoman who has won many cups for show-ring jumping. She easily cleared the deck-chairs and their occupants. THE first stir les pointes sprint for ballerinas was staged by the members of Warner Brothers ON YOUR TOES film com pany. The spectators, as well as the competitors shown in our photograph, appear with Zorina in the ...

... . The FIVE CROXON SISTERS, all well-known horse women are training as ambulance-drivers for National Service. Here the eldest girl is demon strating how to start up the engine of the lorry used for practice. MRS. J. RAYMOND POTTER ivas formerly Miss Marguerite Douglas -J ones. She is the only daughter of Sir Crawford and Lady Douglas- Jones, and last week married Mr. J. Raymond Potter, younger ...