... WHEN I WAS LAST A- FISHING. Fourteen trout, in cluding three from 3 lb. 7 oz. to 3¾ lb., one of 4 lb. and one of 5 lb. 4 oz., were caught on Oct. 15, the last day of the season at Blagdon Lake. Unfavourable fishing weather, with cold winds, prevailed during the final week; nevertheless, 63 fish were caught, all but seven on fly. Anglers fishing from the bank had the heaviest fish, as usual. ...

... . There ivas an exceptionally large attendance of visitors at Newbury for the first day of the Autumn Meeting. Nearly every man was in uniform and a number of women too. The crowds were quite enough to prove that the war has not made any difference to the popularity of racing. LORD ANDREW CAVENDISH, MISS ANNE DE TRAFFORD, LADY MARY PRATT, and MR. MARK HOWARD are the quartet in this group. MR. ...

... - MISS ELIZABETH COWELL, For Wins a wartime army transport worker instead of herself being transported by television. When peace still reigned in Europe, MISS ELIZABETH COWELL was trans ported by television to the screens of every looker-in s set in England, for she and Miss Jasmine Bligh were the announcer girls at Television H.Q. Now that wartime conditions prevail, Miss Cowell has changed ...

... THE FOOD OF LOVE. A MUSIC ARTICLE BY EDWIN EVANS. IT has so hap pened that within a few days I have heard Smetana's string quartet, Aus Meinem Leben, at the National Gallery, two of Dvoràk's Slavonic Dances at Queen's Hall, his Suite in D, and No vak's Slovakian Suite on the radio. Tn anv other country but this there would seem to be a deliberate intention behind this prominence given to ...

... WAR: OUR SEVENTY-FIFTH FIRST-PRIZE WINNER.-- A.P.C. This magnificent study has been awarded the seventy- fifth first prize in our AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS' COMPETITION. It ivas taken by Mr. A. H. Green, with a Rolleiflex camera. Film Agfa. Exposure 4 seconds at f.8. ...

... YOUTH, SPORT AND SUNLIGHT.-- A.P.C. SILHOUETTE AT SUNDOWN by Mr. G. Le G. Peek. Taken with a Zeiss Ikon camera. Film Selo. Exposure l-50th second at f.8. A FINE TOPE by Mr. R. Goode. Taken with an Ikonta camera. Film Agfa. Exposure 1-1 00th second at f.ll. Filter used. A WELCOME REST by Miss Rosamund Hornby. Taken with a Rolleiflex camera. Film Agfa. Exposure l-50th second at f.8. Green cloud ...

... . Nine o'clock in the sport ing hotel at Arusha, in Tangan yika, and we all pushed back our chairs from the dinner- tables, gathered in a Druidical segment of a circle before the box- that speaks, and put on poker- faces while we heard what was going to happen to us. There was usually a German settler or so eating at that hotel, so, of course, the European news was received by us differently ...

... MISS BRENDA JOYCE, the 20th Century-Fox player is to be launched on her Jgj career of stardom in the picture version of THE RAINS CAME,' Louis Bromfield s dramatic novel about the effects of flood earthquake and other cataclysms on a British colony in India. She takes the part of Fern Simon, the charming level headed daughter of a socially ambitious Memsahih. and [days opposite to George ...

... . By H. E. SYMONS. AMONG the many things for which we have to blame Hitler is the holding up of important road works. The Minister of Transport has already, in an interview, explained how he is grouping road works now in progress under the headings A, B, C and D, those labelled A being of vital national importance, and which must therefore be completed without delay. I wonder how many ol our ...

... . Here is a remarkable wartime photograph of HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN, standing in a sandbagged archway in South Africa House, leading to the exhibition hall in this fine building. It was taken ivhen their Majesties last week visited London's Empire Offices, honouring the New Zealand Government Offices, India House and South Africa House. At the last they were received by Mr. Waterson, High ...

... THE WET PLOUGHING LINER AND TRAWLER.-- A.P.C I LOOKING AFT EMPRESS OF JAPAN IN A PACIFIC SWELL by Mr. S. Ramplen Jones. Taken icith a Kodak (Volenda) camera. Film Pan chromatic. Exposure l-25th second at f.16. TOILERS OF THE DEEP by Mr. Wil liam Mackay. T aken with a Rolleijlex camera. Film Agfa. Exposure 1 -100th second at f.4.5. L J-' Those vowed to the wet ploughing, to ride the horse of ...

... OCTET OF BRIDES ELECT. MISS LOUISE RIVlfcRE, only daughter of the late Henry Gilbey Riviere, is engaged to Captain the Hon. Richard Ernest Denison- Pender, younger son of Lord and Lady Pender. MISS VALERIE DRAKE-BROCKMAN, daughter of Major Wallace Drake-Brockman, is engaged to I Lieut. Arthur Michael Lee, R.N.V.R. elder son L of Mr. Edward Cornwall Lee. V\Vj MISS EVELYN ELIZABETH EMILE ...