... 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 ...

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... AIR EDDIES Strength. By OLIVER STEWART WHETHER, by the time these notes appear, there will be war or peace no one knows at the time I am writing them. Whether our air force is larger or smaller than that of Germany no one knows. But this much is certain-- and it applies whatever may be the outcome of the dreadful situation that has been deliberately worked up during the past few months-- that ...

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