... 0 Queen Mary, whose home is in the West Country, was photographed with Princess Alexandra, only daughter of the late Duke of Kent and the Duchess of Kent. Now seven and a half years old, Princess Alexandra is very fond of riding and already an accomplished horsewoman. She and her brother, the young Duke of Kent, like their cousins, the King's daughters, have been taking lessons at a famous ...

... British Embassy in Egypt Lord and Lady Killearn at Home in Cairo Popular personalities in Cairo are Lord Killearn and his charming wife, whom he married in 1934, the same year that he went to Egypt as High Commissioner. In 1936, on the signing of the Anglo- Egyptian Treaty of Independence, Lord Killearn then Sir Miles Lampson became British Ambassador in Egypt, and since that time has made ...

... For the last four years Little Sodbury Manor, Chipping Sodbury, home of Baron de Tuyll, has been used as a convalescent home for members of the Forces. Mrs. Cleaver, wife of Col. Douglas Cleaver, of Tormarton, Badminton, is the Commandant, and most of her staff have been with her since the beginning. At present there are some thirty patients recovering from their wounds in these comfortable ...

... A Famous British Sculptor Mr. Henry Moore These pictures show Mr. Henry Moore at work in his studio in Hertfordshire. The statue on which he is working was donated by Canon Hussey to the Church of St. Mathew at Northampton, and dedicated by the Bishop of Peterborough. Sir Kenneth Clark, Director of the National Gallery and Surveyor of the King's Pictures, in whose opinion Henry Moore is the ...

... -^4 By Sabretache 1 77te Warwickshire Lads ONE of the most distinguished of them is at this very moment leading some more of them back to the very spot upon which they were raised in 1674-- Holland-- and, events are moving far too fast for any pen keep up with them, it will not be surprising Monty and they are there before the printer's ink is dry on this page! (Since this vas ...

... s/f By Oliver Stewart Luftwaffe's Last Lap WHEN General Eisenhower, at the end of August, announced that the German Air Force had lost 2378 aircraft in the air and 1167 on the ground between June 6th and August 25th, he implied that enemy air power was almost extinct. Some believe that the Luftwaffe will rise and fight again when the Allies are on the frontiers of Germany. Some believe that ...

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... DIBBLE A SQUEAK Stories from Everywhere WHEN called on for an after-dinner speech, Francis Meynell, founder of the Nonesuch Press, told this story: In the time ol In ero, sport-loving Romans crowded the Colosseum to see Christians tossed to the lions. For one victim who had given the authorities untold trouble, Nero had eleven of his most ferocious lions starved for a week. When the first lion ...

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... Bing Crosby Holds His Audience Spellbound with the Old Favourites Mr. Anthony Eden is Given a Big Hand Sir Robert Rentcick and Mrs. George Spencer were interested spectators Fred Astaire and his sister, Lady Charles Cavendish shared a family joke A General View of the Crowd at the Opening After a long delay, the Stage-Door Canteen, at 201, Piccadilly, opened with a flourish. The official ...

... NEXT month Lord Nuffield will be sixty-seven. Since his sixtieth birthday he has been giving money away at the rate of over £2,000,000 a year. All told, he has given away over £25,500,000, and has every intention of giving away a great deal more. The bulk of his donations have been in connection with medicine and his own employees. but they take every shape and form. Some of the proposals now ...

... THE BONEHEAD HERO.-- In the history of the British novel there was a strong fashion for a long period for making the hero a bonehead. He was not a mere silly ass: he was more nearly a youthful Blimp. He always possessed noble qualities; his courage was superb, he was generous to a fault, he was-- theoretically, at least-- the perfect gentleman. But he carried his simplicity to a fault, and ...