... Snow Fall When flowers and leaves are fallen, winter covers the earth with a new white blooming The sun sets over Davos valley and the hamlet of Monstein Heerkamper We would never have dreamt of having Christmas without snow in those days/' says Lady Addle of Eigg in her further memoirs (p. 8), but this light-headed grande dame says little more of the winter's loveliest feature, her concern ...

... News Reel Portraits and Presentations The Queen Presents a Cross to Polish Guides When the Queen paid a visit to the headquarters of the Girl Guides' Associa tion in Buckingham Palace Road last Wednesday, she had presented to her Mme. Malkoicska, the founder of the Polish Guides, who hopes to start schools and training centres for refugee Polish children here. For the great gallantry and ...

... In Paris, Too The Theatres are Reopening Mireille, a bride in trousers, heads this page of pictures taken during rehearsals for the first important first night of wartime Paris. She was acting in Fausse Alerte, one of the short Guitry plays of the programme. Paris theatres, like London, are reacting against le bleu (blackout), after a first retreat, with considerable activity Sacha Guitry ...

... Miss Louise Rivi&re Vivienne Louise Riviere is engaged to Captain the Hon. Richard Denison- Pender, younger son of Lord and Lady Pender, of 65, Eaton Place, S.W.I. She is the only daughter of the late Henry Gilbey Riviere and Mrs. Riviere, of 17, Ovington Court, S.W.3, and Middle Cottage, Sandwich Bay. She is on the stage, played Jane Baxter's part in George and Margaret on tour, teas in ...

... M Up to the ankle is the slogan for winter walking shoes. A town version of the country boot is shown at the top of the page, in suede with a deep turnover and lacing all the way up. The middle picture shows a lighter shoe with the built-up effect achieved by a fluted tongue. For cocktail dances, take the floor in the punched sandals with buckled heel straps shown immediately above. All these ...

... By Alan C. Hess IN these days of war, the cream of British womanhood is in the Services, and as very many of these ladies are driving vehicles of one type or another, an added piquancy attaches to the old, old question of the merits of women drivers as compared with men. Now this is not only a dan gerous subject but, worse, it is a difficult one-- and one upon which I lack the moral courage to ...

... Lady Addle Remembers Christmas Some further recollections from the Memoirs of Lady Addle of Eigg By Mary Dunn Author of Lady Addle Remembers SEVENTY Christmases! What a num ber to look back upon! How many turkeys, how many plum puddings, how many-- of latter years-- bottles of bismuth? For we Coots all have the delicate digestions of the nobly bred-- so different from these new peers who seem ...

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... The British Art Centre Holds Its First Exhibition at the Stafford Gallery in St. James's Place Opening speeches were made by Kenneth Lindsay M.P. Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education, and A. P. Herbert, M.P., a member of the B.A.C. Honorary Committee. Mr. Lindsay expressed the interest the Board of Education is showing in this enterprise, and said I hope shortly to be able to ...

... Star Into Matelot Jean Gabin Now Serves His Country in the French Navy If the French film industry organised a poll in England for your favourite film-actor, Jean Gabin would come somewhere very near heading the list. Maybe women's votes would put him at the top. He is Parisian by birth, and thirty- five years old. His magnificent performance in La Bite Humaine gives significance to a ...

... Miss Sheila Macdonald Canteen manager is Sheila Mac donald, sister of Malcolm Macdonald, the Colonial Secretary. She works at the Hampstead W. V.S. Central Hospitals Supplies Depot, which is housed in a convent Mrs. Bostock, Lady Margaret Douglas-Home Also working in the conventual setting of the Hampstead Depot are Mrs. Geoffrey Bostock, who is the head cutter, and Lady Margaret Douglas-Home, ...

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