... Dining and Dancing In' Three of London's Favourite Spots Soup to start with for Lady Amy Biddulph, who was dining with her husband, the Hon. Michael Biddulph. She is Lord Normanlon's sister lome again after five years' service abroad, Major G. A. Murray- 'mith tool his wife out to dine. She was formerly Ulrica Thynne Left Waiting for her table was Mrs. Jar dine Hunter -Pater son, with the Earl ...

... AIR EDDIES Air Safety By Oliver Stewart As I write there appears to be a tendency at the Chicago Conference on Aviation to look more kindly on the Canadian proposals for the guiding international air transport in the future, although the Australian and New Zealand proposals have been rejected. The essential fact that, I think, ought be made clear to all the fifty-one delegations at the ...

... -^4 By Sabretache Datvn A MOST charming Voice recently informed the massed brains of the B.B.C. that that hour which finds the night at odds with the dawn, made its owner feel like nothing upon earth. This condition is by no means abnormal, for there are many to whom Dawn's Left Hand feels exactly like a wet fish, and who make no profession at all to be fit for human consumption until the ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen Happiness is an Odd Thing JANIE suddenly said, Do you think, Granny, that Great-Aunt Alice was ever happy? And Mrs. Parkington answered, No, my dear. And, after a moment, she said, Happiness is an odd thing. Perhaps people who have never known it are not really unhappy. I do not know whether Alice ever knew that she was unhappy. Sometimes I think only that life was ...

... Mrs. J. A. Phillips and Her Children The wife of Lt. J. A. Phillips, R.N., was photo graphed with her children, Michael and Suzanne, at the home of her father, Buriton, Petersfield. She is the daughter of Col. A. L. Bonham-Carter D.S.O., 60th Rifles who is now serving abroad, and of Mrs. Auriol Gaselee. Her marriage took place in 1937 Mrs John Temple with Her Daughter Diana Mrs. Temple is the ...

... Right front row Capts. A. W. Nesbitt, H. N. Palcthorpe, Majors C. S. E. Wright, W. H. Major, T. H. Balderston, M.M., Capt. H. Hallam, D.C.M., R.A., Major E. S. Wallis, M.M., Lt.-Col. C. E. Jay (C.O.), Capt. W. Swaby, M.C. (A. and Q.), Majors P. W. Straw, M.C., H. R. Searby, R. R. H. Matthews, R. S. Hudson, Capt. C. S. R. Overton. Second row Lts. K. W. Riggall, G. F. H. Heane, F. S. Cant well, ...

... GROWING IIP: IIER FIRST DHEII DRESS Shimmering Lame, the bodice draped into a knot, the skirt very full, makes this dinner and dance dress for a very young girl just facing up to her first spate of grown-up parties. Made by Debenham's in their own workrooms, the dress Josephine is wearing costs 21 guineas the same design can also he made in other lame materials at varying prices Black Silk ...

... Lady Campbell-Orde and Her Children Marcus Adams Lady Campbell-Orde, with her son and daughter, has been staying at her father's home, Haslington Hall, in Cheshire. Her husband, Major Sir Simon Campbell-Orde, Bt., is in the Lovat Scouts, and has been abroad for most of the war. Lady Campbell-Orde, before her marriage in 1938, was Miss Eleanor Watts, daughter of Col. Humphrey Watts, O.B.E. Her ...

... 44 Carnaval A Fokine Revival by the Sadler's Wells Ballet Carnaval was revived by the Sadler's Wells Ballet in October for the first time since 1940, and the present production is probably the best this Company has achieved of Fokine's Schumann ballet, of which the mood, style and characterisa tions require to he so delicately, yet so exactly, caught. It has, in fact, been judged one of the ...

... 0 A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country Family Loss THE death of the veteran Earl of Strathmore, Her Majesty's father, naturally cast a gloom over the Court, especially as it followed so closely on that of Princess Beatrice. When news came that Lord Strathmore, who had been in failing health for a very long time, was sinking, the Queen at once decided to postpone her immediate engagements ...

... BUBBLE SQUEAK Stories from Everywhere A MAN walked into a restaurant and left the door open. A big fat man called out: Shut that door! Were you brought up in a barn? The man closed the door, went to a table, sat down, and began to cry. At which the fat man looked uncomfortable and went over to the weeping one. Said he: I'm sorry; I didn't intend to hurt your feelings. I just wanted you to ...

... There may be some difficulty in obtainingDrescott Clothes, as supplies are limited owing to the necessary restriction of all civilian wear. But they will repay the extra trouble in looking for them. DUDLEY WORCESTERSHIRE ovs-isa ...