... Precocious Children Are the Cause of Feuds and Complications in Kis& and Tell. Mr. and Mrs. Archer find the antics of their sophisticated sixteen- year-old daughter, Corliss, extremely amusing, but later on they laugh on the other side of their faces Percy Mar moot, Renee Kelly Kiss and Tell, by F. Hugh Herbert, centres round precocious American children, who manage to lead the far more ...

... Bubble Squeak Stories from Everywhere The American proudly exhibited a small scar. See that? he said. I got it when I fell from the window of a room on the forty-fourth floor of the skyscraper where I work. The forty-fourth floor, and you weren't killed? gasped his friend, incredu lously. No, I was lucky I fell inwards. Two schoolboy howlers: In the Middle Ages the barons used to ask ...

... j is the wife of Major James Willson, D.S.O., Grenadier Guards. Her husband is the eldest son of Sir Walter Willson, of Kenward, Tonbridge, Kent, and they have one son who was born in 1943. The Hon. Mrs. Willson is a daughter of Viscount Scarsdale, of Kedleston Ilall, Derby, and was the Hon. Ann Curzon before her marriage. She is the eldest of four sisters Bertram Parle ...

... Sir Arnold Bax, who gave the first recital of his works in 1908, is a Gold Medallist of the Royal Philharmonic Society and of the Worshipful Company of Musicians, while his works have appeared frequently in programmes of the London Philharmonic Society and other principal London concerts. His deep interest in, and knowledge of Celtic life and history find expression in his well-loved choral ...

... Bubble Squeak Stories from Everywhere Two men in a lighthouse saw a small boat being rowed towards it. When it was about half a mile away it began to sink, so one of the men went out to the rescue. When the rescued man was in the lighthouse he told the men it was a good job they had saved him because he had come to see them about their income tax. Here, 1 say, we're out ol petrol, said he. ...

... Officers of an M.T.B. Flotilla Front row Lts. D. D. Owen-Pawson, L. E. Thompson, R.N.V.R., R. Campbell, R.C.N.V.R., P. Mangus, F. M. A. Shore, J. J. F. Aimers, F. P. Standley, R.N.V.R. Middle row Sub. -Lts. M. Frere-Smith, R.N., J. S. Harris, R.N.V.R., R. E. Lang, R.A.N.V.R., Lt. P. D. Watkins, R.N.V.R., Sub.-Lts. M. E. Maslen, U. E. C. Wood, R.N., H. T. E. Fry, R.N.V.R., J. Lungley, A. C. ...

... Getting Married The Tatler and Bystander's Review of Weddings Normand Cummin g W Normand R.N., only son of Lord Normand, Lord .slice-General and President of the Court of Session, and pson of Lady Normand, of 27, Moray Place, Edinburgh, rried Miss Ann Elizabeth Camming, only daughter of r. and Mrs. James Gumming, of Coulter Maynes, niter. Lanarkshire, and 27, Cavendish Close, London Yerbury ...

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... PRISCILLA IN PARIS Behind the Smiles D.O.A.H.-- One of you wrote me that the hot spell in England had come to an end with thunderstorms and ensuing coolness! We wish a little dampness would come our way. Last week-end I had to rush someone across France in a south-westerly direction, and we nearly died of the heat. The countryside is just one brown-coloured sizzle and, 'orrid detail, in ...

... Horse and Pony Show At Syston, Leicestershire Among the judges were Mr. Noel Wenman, Mr. W. A. Pugh, Major Cantrell-Hubbersly, Miss E. Morlev, Sir Berkeley Pigolt, Mr. R. Bromley and Capt. Howson Right Ringside seals were found by Sir W. Lindsay Everard, Lady Everard and Miss Audrey Coy Major G. A. Catley rode Gay Musketeer winner of the First Prize in Class 2 Lightweight Hunter The Marsh ...

... Weil-Known Irish Families Who Came to the Royal Dublin Society's Horse Jumping Competitions The Royal Dublin Society held a three-day fixture of Horse Jumping Competitions and Gymkhana events this year, as a substitute for the world-famous Horse Show. An unusually high standard of jumping was maintained for the three days, when a large crowd were kept agog with excitement by unusu ally fine ...

... . Before the war, the average woman's knowledge of aluminium as a practical metal in the home j was confined to saucepans and their performances. During the war, aluminium j has developed with giant strides l as a metal of all-embracing possibilities in the house. Its outstanding virtues com- j mend themselves. It is light, which means easy to carry about it resists corrosion, which means ...