... 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. ...

... PATIENCE: OUR SIXTY-SEVENTH FIRST- PRIZE WINNER.-- A.P.C. This amusing study of patient, concentrated anglers, seated on a jetty waiting hopefully for a bite, has been awarded the sixty-seventh first prize in our C I AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS' COMPETITION. It was taken with a Voigtlander I Superb camera. Film Selo. Exposure 1-1 00th second at f.5.6. ...

... Left GRANNY WINDING BOBBINS by Dr. P. H. Lulham. Taken with a Kodak camera. Film Selo. Expo sure l-50th second at f.8. /✓hu 'UOfo Right AND NOW LET US SEE i by Walter MacEwen. T aken with a Rolleicord camera. Film Kodak. Exposure l-25th second at f.8. THE BENCH by Captain J. V. Tree. Taken with a Reflex Korelle camera. Film Agfa. Exposure l-25th second at f.2.8. RE-TREAD by Mr. Ernest A. ...

... I DIPLOMATIC I REPRESENTATIVE OF A BALTIC STATE. These portraits of H.E. the LATVIAN MINISTER and MADAME ZARINE i cere taken at the Legation in Eaton Place. Latvia is a Baltic republic at the eastern and southern shore of the Gulf of Riga and teas formerly part of the Russian Empire. Its frontiers are common with Estonia Russia Poland and Lithuania so the present situation in Europe affects it ...

... . ALICIA MARKOVA IN LELAC DES CYGNES, THE FAMOUS BALLET TO TCHAIKOVSKY MUSIC. MARINA FRANKA IN LE BEAU DANUBE, THE ENCHANTING MASSINE-STRAUSS BALLET. PHOTOCH HARON. 11111 .nil III. HI. THE BALLET RUSSE DE MONTE CARLO, which has Leonide Massine as artistic director, was due to open a fortnight's season at Covent Garden on Monday last September 4, ivith the London Philharmonic Orchestra. The ...

... SONG, DANCE AND LAUGHTER OF SITTING PRETTY. SITTING PRETTY, the new Firth Shephard entertainment at the Princes Theatre is a song dance and laugh show. The brothers Tuttle have to keep a job for a year in order to get a million. Here Wilberforce (SYDNEY HOWARD) is disguised as Miss T and Jeremiah (ARTHUR RISCOE) as Miss G, young ladies of a Bon Marche store. The action at one time moves to ...

... BEAUTY-- BY THE DOZEN. Beauty is not often to be met with by the dozen but this page of portraits of twelve of the celebrated sixteen HOFFMAN GIRLS who will appear in George Black's forthcoming showt THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED, proves that loveliness can be fully mobilised, so to speak. The Crazy Gang are as usual, featured in the entertainment which is due at the London Palladium on September 13. ...

... . By SANDY BUNKER. FOR various reasons, one of which is obvi ous, there was little or no comment about the selection of eight of the ten players who will travel to the United States next month to contest the Ryder Cup match in Florida next November. Apparently the selection committee escaped the customary criticism under the cloak of other inter national affairs. The eight golfers nominated ...

... INSIDE KNOWLEDGE INSIDE KNOWLEDGE THERE'S A WEALTH OF ENTERTAINMENT III A large number of the informative dia grammatic drawings, chiefly by that well-known artist G. H. Davis, which have been published from time to time in THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, are now available in collected form in a special 32-page publi cation entitled INSIDE KNOWLEDGE. This will appeal to all who want to know ...

... THE OLDEST HANDWRITING A Claim from La Vendee mHE oldest handwriting in the world is 1 how Dr. Marcel Baudouin describes the 275 hieroglyphics which he has deciphered on a pre historic stone found at Poire de Vie in La Vendue and which he says represent an octagonal zodiac engraved on the stone about 6,800 B.C., that is in the time of Neolithic man. Dr. Baudouin, who is the founder of the ...

... ADD LONDON M.K.r. PREPARES EXTRA London policemen seen leaving POLICE Scotland Yard last week after being EQUIPMENT equipped with gas masks, which are contained in canvas haversacks A LONDON A new block of buildings under con- WAR-TIME CASUALTY struction for a big London hospital CLEARING STATION is having built into its foundations a war-time casualty clearing station A LODGE-KEEPER'S ...

... THE DAY ol the WAR DECLARATION Scenes in Whitehall on the Sunny Sunday Mornino the PRIME MINISTER SETS OUT FOR It was an extraordinary scene early-autumn THE HOUSE ON SUNDAY MORNING sunshine streaming down on Whitehall as the Premier's car left for the House amid heartfelt cheers from the spectators THE CROWD OUTSIDE 10, DOWNING STREET A large crowd gathered ovtsidel ON SUNDAY MORNING, ...