... Youth Serves the Dance Four Young Soloists of the Sadler's Wells Ballet Who Return to London Next Week Margaret Dale, twenty-one this year, joined the Sadler's Wells Ballet School in 1936, after early training in her home town of Newcastle. She soon graduated into the Company, had her first solos as the Child in The Emperor's New Clothes and the Dog in The Wedding Bouquet, in 1938. To-day she ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen No Playboy LORD EDWARD FITZGERALD was a man with a happy nature. He was romantic, ingenuous, generous, droll and high- spirited. In his lifetime, everyone loved him-- how could they not?-- and since he died, not a breath has tarnished his memory. As a younger son of the Duke of Leinster, born in the later half of the eighteenth century, he inherited six hundred years of ...

... Star Spangled Rhythm George Marshall Directs the Greatest Star Cast in History Star Spangled Khythin can boast of 16 stars, 24 featured layers and 30 other supporting actors and actresses. Among he stars are Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Fred MacMurray, Franchot one. Hay Milland, Dorothy I .amour. Paulette Goddard, Veronica ake, Vera Zorina, Mary Martin, Dick Powell, Alan Ladd and Rochester. Most of ...

... Cliveden Re-visited More Pictures of Lord Astor's Gift to the Nation On December 23rd we published photo graphs of Cliveden, shortly after Viscount and Viscountess Astor had announced their intention of presenting the house and estate to th ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen Changes and Chances DESTINATION CHUNGKING, by Han Suyin (Cape; 12s. 6d.), is the story of the adventures of a young, modern Chinese couple during the still unfinished Chino-Japanese war. The scenes contrast, safety and peril alternate, private lives take the background of a national destiny in a manner that could remind one of War and Peace. Indeed, the stuff for a ...

... The Tatler and Bystander's Review of Weddings Porter Courtenay Dr. Charles Porter of 69, Clifton Hill S*. John's Wood au ...

... Suffo/ks at Ipswich Features of the Ipswich Spring Stallion Show, held by the Suffolk Agricul tural Association, were the heavy entries in the junior classes and the all-round strength of exhibits from East Anglian studs. A qualification to this is that Sir Hanson Rowbotham 's important stud-farm at Brooke, Isle of Wight, pro vided the winners of the two junior classes and the junior supreme ...

... THERE are a great number of different-- and specialist-- jobs on the farm. Indeed, no other occupation can show so many diverse interests and activities as the ordinary arable or mixed farm. Some agricultural duties are very strenuous and re quire such heavy muscular effort that they are much too exacting for women, but the care of stock is a branch of farming admirably adapted for animal ...

... By Our Horticultural Correspondent A FORTNIGHT ago I referred to the comparatively simple task of outdoor vegetable cultivation, but on reflec tion I must confess that this was perhaps an ill-chosen phrase. In contrast with green house work, vegetable production under natural conditions is a more straightforward business, but, as many a wartime cultivator has discovered, there are many ...

... J^cchicA- ow The Re-institution of the Coronation Cup IT is surprising that so little attention has been drawn to the reinstitution by the Stewards of the Coronation Cup. Conditions of the race have not yet been published, but it is to be run at Newmarket on Oaks Day, June 18, and is to be an open event. Having been given this importance, it may be assumed that the stake will be a relatively ...

... By D. H. Watson-Wood FROM many points of view, this year's coursing classic will go down as one of the most memorable. First came Swinging Light's essay to equal Fullerton's record of three successive outright wins. The draw held on the eve of the event con tributed to render the atmosphere as tense as I remember, the three best backed grey hounds-- Swinging Light, Jealous Retort and Dew ...

... On Seeds and I Seedlings By Our Horticultural Correspondent ALTHOUGH Nature is capricious and appears at times to deal harshly with outdoor food crops, she usually contrives to balance things up so that the gardener who is reasonably efficient has more successes than failures. But in greenhouse gardening, where growing conditions are artificially created and controlled, success depends on the ...