... p Manhattan's famous 54th Street rendezvous, El Morocco, is always a magnet for notable visitors to New York who want to see the city at its gayest, and a photographic tour of its banquettes one night recently brought out a great gathering of international celebs. The ex-First Lord, Mr. Alfred Duff Cooper, is at present making a lecture-tour of the States, putting forward a British view of ...

... BACK TO THE SEA AGAIN This page having to do with that Silent Service which has been making a dashed sight more noise than any Raeder likes, a Trappist ought to be told off to do the explanation stuff. However, there is no harm in mentioning that this Admiral has his H.Q. somewhere and that almost all his staff is com posed of officers who rejoined immediately on the outbreak, no matter what ...

... The idea that certain gentlemen in Berlin or even our own more Dora-minded statesmen could put the damper on the West End's night life has been pretty quickly and effec tively scotched and all quarters report a ratding good Christmas and New Year festivity, and plenty of good champagne was drunk without the encouragement of Herr von Tovarich Ribbentrop. Highlights at the Cafe de Paris, always ...

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... These notes will appear at the beginning of a new year. There is but one aspiration in the hearts of us all, that this year will see the coming of an honourable and Lasting peace. T o this end we doggy people are pre pared to submit without grumbling to any restric tions as to breeding and shows. Open shows are not desirable. Owing to the difficulties of getting about and other reasons, many ...

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... 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. ...

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