... WAR WITH THE GLOVES I ON AT THE N.S.C. MR. CHARLES SWEENY, LORD :QUEENSBERRY, COUNT JOHN DE BENDERN AND MRS. PETER HORLICK MR. RICHARD ROWLEY AND LADY SIBELL ROWLEY MR. JOHN HARDINGE (right) AND MR. AND MRS. JACK HYLTON MISS ELSIE RANDOLPH AND MR. VICTOR BURNETT SIR NOEL AND LADY CURTIS-BENNETT FULL OF INTEREST AT THE RING SIDE SIR MATHEW WILSON WITH MISS FRANCES DAY (on right) MR. WILL HAY, ...

... BRITISH DOVE -DANCER Photo*. Bertram Park A novel feature of The Little Dog Laughed, the current Crazy Gang show at the Palladium, is the dove dance per formed by lovely Edna Squire-Brown, who represented England at the Johannesburg Exhibition two years ago. The doves are sacred birds, originating in the Near East, where Miss Squire- Brown bought them on her way back from South Africa. The ...

... HANDS OFF! A CONVOY AND ITS ESCORT IN THE NORTH SEA TEETH BARED AND READY TO BITE Two pictures which vividly illustrate some of the work that the British Navy is doing in the way of keeping our food-supply lines open. Whether the onslaught comes from above or below, the attacker does not find that he has things all his own way. The attacks by enemy aircraft have been a bit costly to the foe, ...

... BUBBLE and SQUEAK THE boat was two days out of New York when the drunk staggered from his state-room for the first time. He lurched to the bar, ordered a drink, and then leaned towards the bar-tender. Shay, buddy, he asked, where am I The bar-tender served him. You 're on board a liner, sir, he replied, and we are in the middle of the ocean. You don't shay! grunted the other. What ocean ...

... A FAMOUS IRISH POET-DRAMATIST-- I VERY MUCH AT HOME All these pictures, at Dunsany Castle, Co. Meath, were taken quite recently. The new grand son of Ireland's famous poet-dramatist and Lady Dunsany arrived after his father, Captain the Hon. Randal Plunkett, who is in a very famous Indian cavairy regiment, had been recalled from leave on the outbreak of war, and this may be the first he will ...

... I I I By W. G. McMINNIES I i I i Lighting the Pedestrian. THE slaughter of pedestrians during the black-out period calls for urgent remedy. That it has assumed such dimensions-- roughly twice the total of the equivalent month in I938-- is no surprise to anyone who has tried to drive either in town or country during black-out hours. Then the only guides to road navigation are the dim lights of ...

... Deben ham Freebody Debenbam Freebody i% /I f# [Vji/fph f AT DEBENHAM FREEBODY'S Coat of natural Mink 179 gns. Write for new catalogue of Furs of Authority WIGMORE STREET, LONDON, W.1 Langham 4444 i,Debenhams, Ltd.) ...

... ENGLISH HOTELS SAFETY ZONE ROYAL VICTORIA HOTEL ST. LEONARDS-ON-SEA Telephone: HASTINGS 869 Massive building on island site facing sea Wide, straight corridors, east, west and central staircases, central lift to all floors to entrance Gas-proof and splinter-proof rooms with lavatory Suites and rooms all centrally heated with h. and c., and multi- spring beds are available now. English staff, ...

... 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 ...