... 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 ...

... TROOPER BRUCE HOBBS joined up on the first day of war and is now serving with the Yeomanry in the Northern Command. He had special leave to ride at Windsor recently, and it is hoped that his military duties will allow him to ride his second Grand National winner at Aintree on April 5th. His first victory was on Battleship in 1938 when he was only seventeen. Hobbs comes of a famous family of ...

... LIGHTEST IN THE SHOW: F. Durr, a 4-st. 3-lb. boy from R. Day's stable at Newmarket, being examined by the doctor before the fight and ready to go into the ring. He was the lightest boy in the programme and gave an exhibition of shadow-boxing, for his opponent did not materialise. ONE ROUND: W. Foskett (left), who was knocked out in the first round by R. E. Moore (right). At present these two ...

... SIX thousand people were at the Liverpool Stadium to watch Nel Tarleton, of Liverpool, regain the British and Empire featherweight titles from Johnny Cusick, the holder. Tarleton almost won the fight in the sixth round when he delivered a smashing right-cross which put Cusick down for eight (above picture on right). By the tenth round 34-year-old Tarleton seemed to be feeling the pace, but he ...