... Here We Are Again Parkin's Circus at Earl's Court Keeps the Winter Tradition lsabelle provides the traditional bareback act in S. V. Parkin's cirrus at the Empress Hall, Earl's Court. She comes of the circus -famed family of Sir Robert Fossett, other mem bers of which also do an acrobatic riding act (see next picture) The Ayres Trio do an old act well the roller-skating stunts which depend ...

... Alan C. Hess AUTRE temps. It seems only a very little while ago that I was dipping my pen in vitriol and writing with appropriate venom about the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Winston Churchill, on whose initiative the Road Fund was first raided and motorists' money misappropriated to bolster up an unsound Budget. And now, here I am again writing of Mr. Winston Churchill, this time in ...

... Sarah Churchill is the young wife Lucrezia in Nicolo Machiavelli's comedy Mandragola, now at the Mercury, in Ashley Dukes' English adaptation. Voltaire thought the play worth all the comedies of Aristophanes, but London critics have lacked his enthusiasm. However, the production is a collector's piece for the theatrical connoisseur, since this, after four hundred and twenty-four years, is the ...

... : Brace Bairnsfather Nao, I don't mind it, mate. Whenever I gets a bit fed up, I either thinks of Poland, Finland and Czechoslovakia, or Denmark, Holland, Belgium and Rumania Bruce Bairnsfather ...

... Maurice Chevalier: 2nd Great War finds him en tertaining on the revue front Maurice Chevalier saw the last war from the trenches, his training as electrician and mechanic standing him in good stead. This time, war broke out in the month of his fiftieth birthday and he was too old to fight. But as a world's star whom France is very proud of he is in constant demand to entertain the troops, and ...

... Capt. Dewhurst and Miss Barbara Ramsden-Jodrell Captain John Powys Dewhurst Royal Artillery, is the eldest son of Captain and Mrs. G. P. Dewhurst of Bodidris, Llandegla, Denbigh shire. Barbara Ramsden-Jodrell is the second daughter of Lieut.- Colonel and Mrs. Henry Ramsden-Jodrell, of Taxal Lodge, Whaley Bridge, Cheshire. They were married at St. George's Hanover Square Capt. the Hon. Richard ...

... Viscount Gort Reaches the Halls of Waxen Fame Madame Tussaud's Now Bill the C.-in-C. in Place of the P.M. 1. Bernard Tussaud, great-great-grand son of the first Mme. Tussaud who died ninety years ago is chief modeller of the waxworks in Marylebone Road, here starts work on the head of Viscount Gort, V.C. 2. Skin texture is obtained by rubbing the finished clay model with a damp sponge. The hat ...

... Sanity Fare The Author of Insanity Fair Covers the War Fronts Douglas Reed The French and Us WINNING the war is afar off yet, and winning the peace still further, but the spectre of that peace-to-come already haunts Paris. The French, perturbed by the We-are-not- fighting-the-German-people chorus from England, are apprehensive lest the next peace should deteriorate into a Franco- British ...

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... This big, dominating man of sixty, the foremost English painter of to-day, went to Buckingham Palace early in December for the first twice-weekly sitting from the Queen. Now, a month later, his portrait no official thing of robes and orders is nearing com pletion. It will not be the first John in the Palace for the Queen has been collecting modern English pictures for the past year and owns ...

... Getting Married The Bystander's Review of Wedding Stapleton-- Schibsted Sqdn.-Leader Frederick Snowden Stapleton son of J. G. Stapleton, of North Lodge, Bradmore Road, Oxford, and the late Mrs. Stapleton, and Anne Sofie Schibstt'd, daughter of the late Eivind Schibsted, and Fru Torpp, of Halden, Norway, were married at St. James's, Gerrard's Cross Dennis-- Denbigh Richard Martyn Dennis and ...

... Cathleen Mann has exchanged the wide, light, Thames-side views of Cheyne Walk for the confined and darker elegance of Charles Street, on which she looks regretfully out from her wartime Mayfair flat. Here she now has her studio, and has been working (in a tartan dress) on a portrait of the Countess of Jersey. She is one of the thousand and more exhibitors in the huge United Artists' Exhibition ...