... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... B J jfl 1 he Ideal temperature for winter comfort is 65° Do you like getting up in an icy bedroom? Do you prefer to be isolated in the living room be cause it's the only room with a fire? Do you like carrying coal, making fires and having the sweep? Of course you don't. Then why put up with such things when to avoid them is so simple? Ideal Central Heating puts a stop to cold, damp, dust and ...

... mm THE strenuous life of modern times has created a vogue for things lovely and artistic to be worn when the sun has set and women must relax. Jenners, Princes Street, Edin burgh, appreciate this fact and are showing a wondrously beautiful collection of negligees and wrappers which are sure to prove formidable rivals to the house-coat. It is pale pink satin which makes the wrapper on the left. ...

... By GUARDRAIL SO at last it has come and it has found us in a state of pre paredness, with every man smouldering with an undying hate, not against the poor down-trodden Jerry, but against his rulers. Every man has had the whole of his world knocked to bits, and those who took part in the last war have some sort of a guess as to what this one may mean, but with the extraordinary temperament of ...

... AN OXFORD MIXED BAG- MAINLY MILITARY Signs of the times and that the counties are doubling up to get into khaki are seen in this survey of the contemporary Oxford scene. Lord Harcourt, who owns Nuneham Park, is a junior subaltern, while Mr. B. G. Barnett has his second pip. Miss Evelyn Taylor, who has an interestingly unconventional taste in pets, has been a sufferer from the closing of the ...

... By GODFREY WINN THIS page used to be called Lawn Tennis. Was it last week, or was it a century ago? All the same, I couldn't help laughing just now. As I came in and started to peel off my A.F.S. overalls, I found on the hall-table an entry form for my home club members' tournament at Melbury. It's always held the same week as Gleneagles, and in the past I have always been sorry about the ...