... Antidotes to Gloom and Black-outs Adventure at the London Plaza and Fun in Reception Areas (Left) STILL LOST MEN Gregory Prin (J. Carrol Naish gun-runner and bandit, in a strong position against Tex Baillister (Roderick Crawford), who is un dismayed, despite (or because of) the empty brandy bottle. Tex-- friend Kim, enemy Prin. A NASTY MOMENT in Island of Lost Men white Kim Anna May Wong) and ...

... Stallions of the Year No. 3 lV/TR. MARTIN BENSON created a stir in breeding circles when he announced, a year ago, that he had paid the record price of £60,000 for the Italian-bred Grand Prix winner. The transaction was concluded as a result of a 15-minutes' telephone call to Paris. Nearco, who was bred by Signor Tesio, ran fourteen times and was unbeaten. In his thirteen starts in Italy he ...

... The Bicester Meet at Stratton Copse Cub-Hunting with the Camera CUB-HUNTING is still being carried on by the Bicester and Warden Hill, but at this meet at Stratton Copse, the Master, Mr. R. E. Field- Marsham, though out, was not hunting hounds. Quite a good field turned up, but as the pictures on the next pages show, most of the followers were children. They spent a very enjoyable morning in ...

... THE past month of September has found our courses running very fast, and in consequence a greater variety of approach shots has been called for. The ordinary pitch. shot, landing from any angle on to the putting surface, does not almost bury itself as it would on a soft holding green. It is, perhaps, rather futile to tell a beginner to be original in his shots to the pin, when he is trying as ...

... The first of Henry Cotton's exhibition matches in aid of the Red Cross was played at Royal Mid-Surrey last Saturday, where Archie Compston beat Cotton by one hole. Some 1,200 people turned up, and since Cotton and Compston both gave their services, the funds benefited to the extent of about £150. The spectators were delighted with the golf that for two hours made them forget their troubles and ...

... Left: FROM ENG LAND Finland still hopes that the Olympic Games for rgqo will be held at Helsinki and the training of the horses bought from England last May goes on. This is Lieutenant Biitzov on Waldkater, winner of the school riding in a recent competition at the Olympic Stadium. THE COLCHESTER GARRISON Beagles' Whip, Lieutenant D. Stanford, was married at Langham Parish Church to Anne ...

... The British Record Casting Company Less Gramophone and More Flesh and Blood, Please THE B.B.C., as the purveyor of wartime entertainment apart from its news ser vice, has come in for some hard, critical knocks in the past week or two. My only criticism of those knocks is that they have not been hard enough. There seems to be no defence whatever for the feebleness of most of the fare provided, ...

... y DOROTHY WARLT, a glamour girl from the London Casino was married at All Souls, South Hatnp stead, to 2nd Lieut. Peter Davison, of the Honourable Artillery Company. j MICHAEL LTNE, the sporting artist, who is joint-master of the United Cotswold Beagles, is now a private in a Battalion of the Herefordshire Regiment. Last Saturday, while on a short leave, he hunted his hounds and killed his ...

... (F. Slate), which finished third; No. 14 (the grey) is R. K. Mellon s Toolbox (J. Harrison), and No. 3 (on the right) is Court Time, owned by J. Brooks B. Parker (C. Pinn). Farndale, the winner, is on the left, hidden by National Anthem. (Below, right) THE CHINESE WALL: This is the famous thirteenth fence and is so high that it is called the Chinese Wall. Leading over the fence is Wambaw (No. ...

... New American jf Amateur Champion THE NEW CHAMPION IN PLAT. Marvin ward, of I Spokane, Washing ton, won the American National Amateur Champion ship on the thirty-first green of the wind-swept 7022-yard 1 course at North Shore Country Club, Chicago. He beat R. Billows (New York), the runner-uD in IQS7. bv 7 and 5. Both players 1 visited Britain with the I Walker Cup team last year, Ward, who is ...

... By A. Croxton Smith UNTIL the use of torches was permitted those who wanted to give their dogs exercise after nightfall were put to serious inconvenience and many had to take a toss that sometimes had unpleasant consequences. I could not help being reminded of my youthful days on a country farm, when we must have had cat's eyes if we wanted to go out on a winter's evening. My father would not ...

... A Morning with F. Templeman at Lam bourn OUR Racing correspondent, Rapier, spent a few days last week visiting some of the training centres round Lambourn with our special photographer. These pictures of F. Templeman's charges show that there is plenty of work still going on over the Downs. Temple- man was having one of the best seasons he had ever had when the war stopped racing, but he ...