... 'Bernard IVeatherilf) LTD. Bernard Hfeatherill) LTD. BY APPOINTMENT RIDING CLOTHES OUTFITTERS Spring, Summer, Kutumn A coat that is always in season 55 CONDUIT ST., LONDON, W.1 it BENNETT'S HILI., BIRMINGHAM, and at AI.DERSHOT and ASCOl ...

... THE PYRENEES from the Cote Basque to the Cote Vermeille on the Mediterranean offer all the year round holiday enjoyment under a southern sun. For further details apply to any Travel Agent or to the French National Tourist Office, 179, Piccadilly, London, W.l v J o^v vAfr |}j|=j=|j== Modern medical science ...

... COUNTRY HOUSE AS A F.A.N.Y. RECRUITS' TRAINING COLLEGE: FUTURE MEMBERS OF THE WOMEN'S TRANSPORT SERVICE. Lectures on car construction and maintenance are an important part of the curriculum. They take place in the library of the country house 44 college Taking the wheel off an ambulance may be a tough job, but the F.A.N.Y.s easily manage this and many other more difficult running repairs. All ...

... . I-AQY DIANA COOPER, wife of the Minister of Information, Captain Alfred Duff Cooper, P.C., D.S.O., practises petrol economy by using a baby car when she drives round London. Here she is at the wheel of her Austin Seven, perfectly satisfied that it will take her anywhere she wants to go, and make driving in traffic the easiest thing in the world. V-XT- PHOTOGRAPH BY CECIL BEATON. ...

... : Lady Catherine de Bourgh (EDNA MAY OLIVER) patronises Elizabeth Bennet (GREER GARSON). She is unaware that her nephew, Darcy, is in love with Elizabeth. Left Elizabeth arrives to stay with Mrs. Collins (KAREN MORLEY), formerly Miss Lucas. The Bennet girls file up to bed Elizabeth (GREER GARSON), Lydia (ANN RUTHER FORD), Jane (MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN), Kitty (HEATHER ANGEL) and Mary (MARSHA HUNT) ...

... . After a three-day English honeymoon, newly-married film-star David Niven and his bride, Mrs. Hjordis Tersmeden, left for America with David and Jamie, his two sons by his first marriage. The second Mrs. Niven is regarded as one' of Sweden's loveliest girls she is twenty-seven, auburn-haired, and tall, and was Model No. 1 at a Stockholm store. Photographed by ANTONY BEAUCHAMP. ...

... by Louis T. Stanley TOW-PATH gossip is an amusing diversion. Before the war the public was regaled with intimate details in the private life of a rowing Blue. By illustration and the printed word we became familiar with the whims and peculiarities of eighteen young gentlemen. Nothing was sacred. Everything was news-value. All the trivialities of a doting parent for her progeny were trotted out ...

... By Urtica I AM sixty-seven years of age and I want to give less time to public affairs and more to my garden. Thus spoke Lord Vansittart recently to a friend. It was not so much a decision as a wish, for Van will never cut himself free from the chariot of world events. He was christened Robert Gilbert but was always called d Van, even (behind his back, of course) by the young _\5j ...

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... TOPICAL PARADE: DANCERS; THOROUGHBREDS: PAINTINGS: AND OTHER NEWS PICTURES. Here is the victorious British team of Ballroom Dancers who met a team from Denmark in an International Dancing Contest at the Empress Hall, Earls Court. It was the first amateur international ballroom dancing match held in this country. England won the International match, but Denmark won the European trophy. The most ...

... . B The mouth-old son of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh was christened Charles Philip Arthur George in the music room at Buckingham Palace on December 15 by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Sponsors for the baby Prince, who is to be known as Prince Charles of Edinburgh, were the King, Queen Mary, Princess Margaret, the King of Norway, Prince George of Greece, the Dowager Marchioness ...

... MISS SKETCH'S DATE- BOOK. DECEMBER 1. Miss J. B. Falls daughter of Capt. Cyril Falls, weekly contributor to 44 The Illustrated London News recently married Mr. Carylon, son of Lt.-Col. T. Carylon, D.S.O., and Private Secretary to the Embassy in Praeue. DECEMBER 1. Too late for my last diary, photo graphs of the Cowdray Hunt Ball arrived. Dancing was in the Hall of Paintings, at Cowdray House, ...