... Like Old Times at Aldershot To-night Army v. Air Force Expert Match-Making Famous Amateurs and Professionals By B. Bennison AMATEUR and professional boxers serving with the Army and Royal Air Force will engage in a round of matches at the Garrison Theatre, Aldershot, to-night. It will be splendidly like old times--to me especially. For then Aldershot was synonymous with all that is best in the ...

... THE CHINESE DAVIS CUP player, Kho Sin Kie, and his bride, Miss Ian Balfour, of Exminster, Devon, after their marriage at St. Mary Abbott's, Kensington. The Civil ceremony took place at Kensington Register Office. In defeating Austin in the Hard Courts at Bournemouth in 1938, Kho had the distinction of being the first Chinese to win a British Championship. Right GEORGE RAE DUNCAN, son of Sir ...

... VERY reminiscent of the earlier Kay Francis is this twenty- five-year-old brunette whose screen tests were turned down by three companies before Warner Bros, realised her possibilities. Born on the Island of Negros, in the Philip pines, Brenda studied voice-training and dramatic art at Texas State College, and went on to train at Mme. Ouspenskaya's Dramatic School in New York, where she ...

... THE Navy wants to add some improvements to the formal battleship christening cere mony. How about a cup to catch that champagne in? Here's one about a Scotsman who drank a gallon of anti-freeze so he wouldn't have to buy a winter overcoat. Sergeant And now you're in the Militia, what would you like to be? Militiaman An ex-Service man, Sergeant. Reporter jl think I'm going to be very rich ...

... By Ashley Courtenay THOUGH I have not as yet visited the United States, I have heard much of the efficiency of American hotels, but I still hold the view that, in spite of all I hear, the most efficiently run hotel in the world is the Savoy, London. World travellers who have stayed at the Savoy encourage me in my belief, and one cannot get away from the fact that the Savoy was the genesis of ...

... Personalities at the Paddington Covered Green pHE Paddington I club has the largest covered green in the country, the floor having nine inks one way, and eigh, the other. It has been opened four y ars, daily, including un- days, when not less then sixty players use it. In previous wi; ers the floor had its 'ull capacity of 72 pla :rs regularly. Once expe ts thought that indoor bowls practice ...

... AT the Harringay Arena last week two units of the Canadian Expeditionary Force showed how ice hockey is played in Canada. The game under the English Rules is lively enough for some people they would have found this match hectic, for under Canadian rules body-checking is allowed when a man is not on the puck and players can be substituted while the game is in progress. UNLIMITED CHECKING Non ...

... HOLDER OF THE OPEN: Byron Nelson who won the American Open last June after a double play-off with Densmore Shute, demonstrates his driving prowess. This was at the open house held in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, when the leading players paraded their golfing art for the general public. PITCHING INTO THE TIN Lawson Little set the Los Angeles Country Club course on fire by shooting a 65 (5 ...

... Weather Permitting D ATHER like a civilian uniform, with its UUW (tuu 1U1UCU pCclK, LXXIS 5>LXLCXXCU cLXXgUX d cap is exactly right for the uncertain weather of the next few months. Woodrow, of Piccadilly, have it in almost all colours. A matching scarf completes the set, which costs 42/-. Another cap, this spring's version of the b£ret, is made in speckled tweed, with woollen trimming. ...

... INCLEMENT weather (if it is not high treason to mention that it has been a bit cold this winter) has been put down as the cause of the early decease, after a short and not very glorious life, of at least half-a-dozen pro ductions within the past week or two. All ol tnese nave Deen would-be funny trivialities, and if their failure means a sad disappoint ment to those who have written, produced, ...

... MARLENE DIETRICH has got herself a new producer. Joe Pasternak, who has made his name as the man behind Deanna Durbin, has dressed Marlene up in frills and feathers as of old, and allowed her to show plenty of those famous legs. For a change, however, he has thrown her into the fiercest feminine scrap which has occurred on the screen yet, including the one which Paulette Goddard and ...

... By A. Croxton Smith IN one of his speeches a few months ago Hitler sneered at the English and Americans because of their love for animals. No doubt the gentler sentiments have no place in the Nazi philosophy, and a full hooded Aryan cannot be expected to have any sympathy with those who consider that they have some re ponsibility towards the animals that re put under their charge. If we go ...