... . B The marriage of LADY ANNE HOPE, eldest daughter of His Excellency the Viceroy of India the Marquess of Linlithgow, and the Marchioness of Linlithgow, to LIEUT. P H. J. SOUTHBY, R.N., son of Sir Archibald Southby M.P., and Lady Southby, of Burford Priory, Oxfordshire, took place at the Church of the Redemption, Neiv Delhi. Our photograph shows the bride and bridegroom passing under the ...

... . The National Hunt season was begun in August and stopped on account of the war. Last week it was resumed at Leicester, to the joy of the sporting fraternity, who as t sembled in con- siderable force to enjoy some excellent racing. MRS. FULKE WALWYN, wife of the well- known steeplechase rider is chatting to RICKABY, the flat-race jockey, very smart in his uniform as Flight Sergeant. BUTLER Em ...

... . Right THEIR MAJESTIES KING FARUK and QUEEN FARIDA OF EGYPT jwsed for this photograph with their baby daughter, PRINCESS FERIAL, on her first anniversary November 17. Queen Farida is a daughter of oussef Zulfirar Pasha, and was married in January 1938, when she was seventeen years of age. Ferial, the name of the baby Princess, means 44 Light in Turkish. SIGNORA BAST1ANIN1 is the charming ...

... PRICE ONE SHILLING Ct&O* TripleX fat&Uf THE sketch, NOVEMBER 29, 1939 fM&te/L PRc.J?,Nf HSMILLlNGj, POSI- KTEO *N REGISTERED AS A NEWSPAPER POR TRANSMISSION ,N PUBLISHING OFFICE Canada and Newfoundland l)d. Foreign 2d. THE united kingdom and to Canada and Newfoundland hv magazine 'post 32.34 ST ERIDE ^TREEt! E.C.4. ...

... . THOUGH our thoughts go to the men on active service this Christmas, we must not forget the calls of the home front and the children. Five thousand empty stockings must, for instance, be filled by Father Christmas for THE WAIFS AND STRAYS SOCIETY-- a task in which your help is needed! Send your gift to the Secretary, Waifs and Strays Society, Old Town Hall, Kennington, S.E.ii. This famous ...

... A Happier CHRISTMAS [or 120.000 Children jl/I ORE than 120.000 children are T'l happier each year because of the intervention of the N.S.P.C.C. Homes where ignorance, discord and even hcart- lessness prevail arc being transformed by love and understanding counsel. The war has brought the Society new work for the 1,000, 000 evacuated children: disclosures of wrongful conditions call for prompt ...

... WHEN I WAS LAST A -FISHING. Recently a suggestion was made in the Press that our fresh-water fish should be netted to augment the food-supply. A similar proposal was care fully investigated in the last war, and no action was taken, on the grounds that the difficulty of netting coarse fish and the cost were out of all proportion to the negligible amount of food which would be obtained. Tn a ...

... - PHYSICAL TRAINING is part of the routine of life for girls who join the AUXILIARY TERRITORIAL SERVICE. The Volun teers pictured doing the backward bend are at a camp somewhere in England, working hard to make themselves as fit as possible for the forward march which they are making to help break the Siegfried Line MR. JOHN OXFORD, who plays the villain in the revival of Young England, at ...

... MANY WELL- KNOWNS LOOK AT THEMSELVES: PORTRAITS AND SUBJECTS AT THE I PORTRAIT PAINTERS' PRIVATE VIEW. MR ERNEST THESIGER, actor and artist, pointing out works of interest to LADY RUMBOLD. SIR EDWIN LUTYENS, the distinguished architect, going round the galleries. LORD NUFFIELD looks at his own portrait by MR. HERBERT HOLT. 5 ___£* MR. ALEXANDER CHRISTIE and MR. ESMOND KNIGHT by the Christie ...

... THEATRICAL CHAMPAGNE-AND-*STOUT SPARKLE AND SAVOUR OF BLACK VELVET, THE NEV\ INTIMATE RAG. Left: VIVIEN GRENVILLE is the Little Old Lady in 44 The Family Circle and CYRIL SMITH takes the part of her son. 44 Bringing Up the Heavies is the title of one of TEDDY BROWN'S numbers. Left ANN D'ARCY is one of the lovely, specially chosen girls for the revue. ALICE LLOYD sings 44 Good Old Iron in 44 ...

... . By H. E. SYMONS. THE utter disruption of motoring in this country which was expected when the war burst upon us has not materialised. Although it is true that thousands of cars are laid up and that our erstwhile crowded roads are as clear as they were twenty years ago, a great deal of motoring is still going on. A large percentage of the population still uses private cars to go to and from ...

... SPECIAL DEPARTMENTS OF THE ROYAL CANCER HOSPITAL O One of the Research Laboratories. Research ^JOWHERE is the search for the cause arid cure of Cancer prosecuted with greater vigour than in the Research Laboratories of Ihe Royal Cancer Hospital. The nature of the scourge is investigated by many different methods, physical, chemical and biological. Certain chemical factors which may be ...