... I_ _ _ _ _ . PRINCESS IRMA WEIKERSHEIM, in common with many lovely and well known women, has had her portrait done by the young Hungarian sculptor Nicolaus Koni who is having a very busy time of it in his London studio. Koni is fond of the long, flowing line of El Greco paintings, and you can see something of it in this bust of LADY ORANMORE AND BROWNE. A charming portrait-bust of PRINCESS ...

... THE FOOD OF LOVE. A MUSIC ARTICLE BY EDWIN EVANS. IT so happened that one of the last concerts I attended before Christmas was that of two-piano music given at the National Gallery by Myra Hess and Irene Scharrer. Also, some of the ballets that have been perform ing for our delec tation have been accompanied on two pianos. The two circumstances have combined to bring the subject of this kind ...

... ON DUTY-- ON LEAVE AT HOME WITH cold weather still to come and possible night alarms, warm dressing-gowns are as important as ever. Burberry, in the Hay- market, have these tailored models. The check one is in camel cloth with a cashmere finish, cut with raglan sleeves and edged with corded braid. The other also has a braid edging, but is buttoned up to a Peter Pan collar. Children will love ...

... . By H. E. SYMONS. THE motor taxation returns for this quarter will make interesting reading. When it was first announced that, in order to help meet the enormous expenditure on defensive armaments, the horse-power tax would be increased from 15s. to 25s. per h.p., it was fore cast that the number of large cars in use would fall to a mere fraction of its normal figure. The few optimists who ...

... Uniform is nowadays the wear for the King's sister, who, like the rest of the royal family, is setting a magnificent example to the country in the matter of pulling one's maximum weight against those unpleasant things we are fighting. The uniform in which Her Royal Highness is seen, is that of the Auxiliary Territorial Service, in which the Princess Royal occupies the important post of ...

... CONFESSIONS OF A SELF-MADE MAN STARTLING NEW YEAR REVELATIONS By MICHAEL ARLEN THIS is the time of year when writers and waiters are particularly busy. While everybody else is having a lot of fun, whether they enjoy fun or not, waiters are waiting on elderly lunatics in paper hats and writers are writing like mad. Now, I can't tell you anything from the inside about waiters, though if the war ...

... THE RUFFORD IN GREAT HEART These pictures were more or less a right-and-left at two recent fixtures of the renowned Henry Bentinck hounds, and this is said in spite of the fact that great hound-breeder, Mr. Foljambe, having been in the country before Lord Henry. One of the Masters is a direct descendant, and two of his daughters, Lady Peggy and Lady Anne Cavendish- Bentinck, are in the centre ...

... By W. G. McMINNIES Fun with the Ambulances. THERE are too many reports about the difficulty of starting up ambulance engines, so ably manned by the country's young women. These girls are twisting their insides out trying to swing big engines every few hours. It isn't fair. Whoever is head man or woman in the areas from which come the complaints should put this starting trouble right at once. ...

... The LONDON ELECTROT1 AGENCY LIMITED 2.'J Fetter Lane, London, E.C.4 There's nothing like a PUZZLE! A section of the magnificent drawing Nefertiti by Fortunino Matania, R.I,. is shown. To keep the children out of mischief to amuse and entertain the convalescent. With a Jig-Saw in the house you have an entertaining and amusing companion always. From the pages of the world-renowned ILLUSTRATED ...

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... 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 ...