... By Elizabeth Bowen Getting Started TO START YOU TALKING (Pilot Press; 6s.) is the record, in print, of an exciting experiment in broadcasting. The book has no one specific author: of the introductory chapters the first is by Charles Madge, the second by A. W. Coysh, programme assistant in charge of the series, and the third by George Dixon, the producer. The main part consists of the nine ...

... Furs are beina Tailored now! For the tall, slender figure, there's nothing quite so smart as a tailored line. And the flat furs which are having such a vogue just now lend themselves per fectly to this type of styling. This model is in beautifully marked Ocelot, with collar, cuffs and pannier-pockets of Nutria. Vickery's new collection includes many other designs-quite differ ent, but equally ...

... BUBBLE SQUEAK Stories from Everywhere IN a town in the wild and woolly West, a boy reached the age of fourteen without ever having spoken a word. One day he was loafing around the corral where they were branding calves, and somehow managing to get in the way of the man who was handling the branding irons, he got burned pretty badly on the seat of his pants. As he felt the hot iron, the dumb ...

... BOOK ENDS, ALSO TOBACCO JARS Historic Relics from the Housed of parliament are being processed into articles of enduring charm and priceless value for home and garden to the designs of eminent artists and sold to benefit THE RED CROSS AND ST. JOHN FUND --owners of the material. CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY by the Red Cross with every piece List illustrating many designs for home and garden sent ...

... O B I NSON'S Make it my way, Madam says OLD HETHERS Since you cannot buy Robinson's Barley Water in bottles for the time being, you will do well to take Old Hethers' advice and make it for yourselffrom Robinson's 'Patent' Barley. The simple directions are on the tin and if you cannot get hold of a lemon or an orange for flavouring, use the juice of stewed or tinned fruit; honey or jam. Barley ...

... The weather was cold, so everyone appeared cheerful but well wrapped up at the Royal Horse Show. The King and Queen were present, accompanied by the two Princesses, with the Duchess of Kent and Princess Alexandra. Princess Elizabeth repeated her last year's success in winning a first for the best turn-out in the private driving class, and Princess Alexandra was a competitor in the class for ...

... Author of National Velvet Lady Jones and Her Artist Daughter at Their Sussex Home Lady Jones, who writes under the name of Enid Bagnold, is the wife of Sir Roderiek Jones, former Principal Proprietor of Reuters. She has lately turned with equal success from author to playwright, and her dramatic play Lottie Dundas which was on in London last year, is being filmed with Vivien Leigh in the title ...

... |Wr Day Dr' Cole Marion goes to the Derby wearing a brown, thin wool tailored dress trimmed with white pique, and a white panama hat from Fortnum and Mason. Wilhelmina also chose her clothes at Fortnums, a red and cream printed silk dress, and a cream straw hat trimmed with red gros grain. On her arm she carries one of Fortnums' own special loose coats, which are so easy to wear and to slip ...

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... .4* A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country Farewell KING HAAKON OF NORWAY was one of several recent callers of more than usual interest at Buckingham Palace. His Majesty came, with his daughter-in-law, Crown Princess Marthe, to lunch with the King and Queen, and to take leave of them before setting out on the journey to Oslo, the journey home to which he, and his people in Norway, have looked ...

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... Down on the Farm Mrs. Berkeley Owen at Her Dairy Farm in Berkshire Mrs. Berkeley Owen most ably runs her dairy farm of pedigree Guernsey cows in the absence of her husband, F/O. Berkeley Owen, who is at present in the Air-Sea Rescue Service. The Berkeley Owens have a daughter, Angela Deirdre, who was christened in March, and has the Hon. Mrs. Stobart Whetherly, Viscount Lever- hulmc's youngest ...