... No Fireworks For Miss Eton At the Third and Quietest Fourth of June Since the War Lady Romaine Cecil and Miss Diana Wake were with Lady Violet Benson and her sailor son at the Fourth, which was held this year with a minimum of display. Wonderful sunshine made up for any lack of pre-war glory Mr. C. A. Elliott, headmaster of Eton since 1933, chatted^ in the shade to General Smith. Mr. Elliott ...

... The j Marchioness of Londonderry and Her Youngest Daughter In 1915 Lady Londonderry founded the Women's Legion, the pioneer women's Service in the Army. She became the first President of the Legion and still is its President. Commandant of the Legion is Mrs. Marjoric Robert, who controls the fleet of mobile canteens which daily travel throughout London and the outlying districts distributing ...

... ■/4 By Sabretache The Leopard Cannot T a time when the world was attempting j\ to disarm Germany, he [Von Bock] L A. shocked the post-war politicians by pro claiming publicly that wars are not only in evitable but essential as population regulators. He also advanced the fantastic theory that, if land is to bring forth fertile crops and a thriving humanity, it must be drenched periodically in ...

... WAY OF THE WAR By Joresight Anglo-Russian Alliance Although this was the first occasion on which he had been to Britain, M. Molo off was no stranger to those with whom he conducted the most important part of the negotiations leading up to the signature of the new Anglo- Russian Treaty of mutual assistance. Mr. Eden, for example, had held discussions with him in Moscow in March, 1935, just ...

... The Tatler and Bystander in Town and Country Week-end in Scotland After her strenuous three-days tour 01 Scotland with the King, the Queen l stayed over the week-end at Carberry Tower with her elder sister, Lady Elphinstone, whom she has not been able to see for some time. It was a very happy little break for her, and one which she enjoyed immensely. Incidentally, the royal visit to Edinburgh ...

... Walk Up! Walk Up! See Big Top at His Majesty's The Show with the Cochran Touch Charles B. Cochran has been called 44 Britain's Prince of Entertainers the man who made Piccadilly Circus the centre of the world. In his silver jubilee revue, Big Top he has given London another great enter tainment. Its predominant note is mockery, and he has chosen brilliant artists to point the satire Beatrice ...

... Get a Load of This Stage Star and Stable Owner Mr. Vic Oliver Amongst the latest recruits to the war- depleted ranks of racehorse owners is Vic Oliver, the Prime Minister's wise cracking son-in-law. (In 1935 he married Sarah, Mr. Winston Churchill's second daughter, now in the W.A.A.F.) Vic's stables at Eastbury, near Lambourn, are in charge of W. F. Larkin, the Epsom trainer. Vic is an ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen Angle rpHE Scottish invasion of England, up to the present, has not been properly JL written up. The invasion I speak of has not been made in mass it has been singly that men from the other side of the Border have taken their places in the English midst. Each has been actuated, I imagine, by a mixture of ambition and curiosity, and also by something more dimcult to define. J ...

... maKmx**..*rw 1,,,. -v fffiM Reported Missing, 28 March, 1942: A Great R.A.F. Leader Victor Beamish was an outstanding personality of Fighter Command. Thirty-seven years old when war broke out too old, according to accepted standards, to participate in modern high-speed aerial combat it was impossible to keep him 011 the ground, even when employed on the staff. In the Dunkirk operations, the ...

... The Master of Forbes Marries the Hon. Rosemary Hamilton Ru ssell in London Above the Princess Royal and the Earl of Harewood went to see their niece, the Hon. Rosemary Hamil ton-Russell, married to the Master of Forbes. They were photographed leaving the church with the Hon. Mrs. Richard Hamilton-Russell and Viscount Boyne, who suc ceeded his grandfather in January. The bride's mother. Lady ...

... Drs. Joad and Woad c/o Brains Trust, London Dr. C. E. M. Joad paid a visit back-stage to meet Dr. Woad after seeing Fine and Dandy the Firth Shephard show at the Saville Theatre. Woad, as impersonated by Leslie Henson in 44 Radio Round-Up, bears a striking resemblance to the famous Brains Trust broadcaster, and the two were photographed together in Leslie's dressing-room. Other personalities ...

... The Earl of Selborne, Minister of Ecunoniic Warfare, has had over thirty years' experience in politics. As Viscount Wolmer, he was Conservative Member for Newton, Lanes., from 1910 to 1918, and for Aldcrshot from 1918 till 1940, when he was called to the House of Lords in his father's Barony of Selborne. Shortly before his father's death on February 27th this year, when he became the third ...