... A BRITISH Friesian cow, Manningford Faith- J an Graceful, of Messrs. Jenkin- son's Elmwood herd, has just completed her third lactation, and in 365 days produced 3826 gallons of milk. A chill contracted near the end of the milking period reduced the daily yield for some time, or Manningford Faith- Jan Graceful might haye passed the 4000-gallon production line. This performance constitutes a ...

... ASK A SAILOR Ask a sailor what he knows about Lister's and he'll tell you of engines standing up without a falter to hard work, often in gruelling con ditions. Sometimes it may be that sailors don't care, but they certainly do when it comes to equipment. Lister products are built to give service in the real sense of the word. Engines, generating plant, auto-trucks, cream separators, dairy ...

... Phyllis Robins Actress, Crooner and Farmer Phyllis Robins (Mrs. A. C. Astor in private life) is making one of her rare appearances on the London stage in Lupino Lane's new musical show, Meet Me Victoria, which is at the Victoria Palace. For the last four years she has been concentrating on farming, with just a broadcast or a concert for the troops every now and then. Her farm is in Cumberland, ...

... 6 to H ^9 A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country Dinner Party THE first social get together in London of the Empire Prime Ministers now assembled here for their first wartime conference was at Buckingham Palace, at a dinner party given by Their Majesties to welcome them here. The absence of the State gold plate, which is still safely hidden away in a deep and bomb-proof shelter, the ...

... Private View Day At the Royal Academy i i Prince and Princess Birabongse came together. He has a bronze and she has two paintings in the exhibition Lady Gregory was at the private view with Lady Milne who came in uniform With his wife was Lt.-Cdr. David Ewart, whose portrait of Sir Andrew Cunningham is exhibited A familiar figure on Royal Academy rivate View days is Lady Alexander 0 attended ...

... The Grimston Girls are Growing Up Here They are in Hertfordshire When lust they appeared on these pages, two years ago, Elizabeth and Hermione were very small fry now they are young ladies of four and a half and two and a half respectively. Their father, F/O. the Hon. John Grimston, M.P. for St. Albans, is the Earl of Verulam's second son, and his wife was Miss Marjorie -Ray Duncan before ...

... Royal Academy of Art, 1944 Portraits of Men Copyright reserved for owners Iry Royal A cademy Illustrated H.M. King Haakon of Norway By T. C. Dugdale R.A. Air Marshal Sir John Slessor, K.C.B.. D.S.O. MC By Cuthberl Orde r II. E. Ivan Maisky g y Margaret Lindsay- Williams I Sir Henry H. Dale, G.B.E. By Francis Dodd, R.A. Geoffrey Datvson, Esq. By Francis Dodd, R.A. ...

... The Esmond Knights Together in Gielgud's Production of Crisis in Heaven When Eric Linklater's Crisis in Heaven opens at the Lyric Theatre to-night, it will bring Esmond Knight back to the London theatre for the first time since his blindness, and with him, for the first time in the West End, his wife, Frances Clare. Esmond Knight was blinded while serving aboard H.M.S. Prince of Wales. His ...

... -^4 By Sabretache Tommy Hitchcock LIKE that other towering figure in the world of polo, Dev Milburn, Tommy Hitchcock, whose death in a flying accident in this country on April 18th is deeply regretted by all who knew him, was an International in more than one sense, for he had a foot in two countries, his own and ours, and he was equally popular in both. We saw a lot of him over here from IQ21 ...

... AT THE LEADING STORES Ian Meredith Ltd. Wholesale only), 29 Bruton Street, London, W.I ...

... avicf tAe Reports of Infertility Among Horses and Cattle THERE is evidence of a general nature, but too important to be disregarded, of a possible serious decline in fertility this season among cattle and horses, including pedigree cattle and thoroughbred horses. The notion may also be supported by figures from the newly found artificial insemination centres to show that cows and heifers are ...

... MR. S. OWENS, of Marlow, Shrop shire, who won the Champion ship at the March 'Show and Sale organised by the Hereford Herd Book Society, was even more successful at the Society's April event at Hereford, winning the Championship and also the Reserve Championship. His two winners, which between them com bined the blood of some of the most noted strains in the Herd Book, were later sold at 360 ...