... Myself at the Pictures Some Plain Speaking By James Agate IT has been suggested to me that one of the results of the withdrawal of the Lend- Lease arrangements will be fewer American films. At a pinch I could bear with that. What I am not prepared to put up with so easily is the increase in British films. In the matter of improving the B.F.'s I have no suggestion to offer. As our neighbours ...

... A Gathering of the Clans Bicentenary of the '45 at Glenfinnan, Where the Jacobite Standard was Raised by Bonnie Prince Charlie Sir Donald Cameron of Lochiel, principal speaker with Lord James Stewart- Murray, was having a word with the Earl of Wemyss and March centre and Mr. Fraser, Chief Constable of Inverness-shire Lord Sempill who in Craigievar Castle, near Aboyne, owns one of ...

... 11^-- i Lady Madden who is seen in her roof-top Kensington flat with her baby daughter, Roseann, is the wife of Capt. Sir Charles Madden, R.N., who is serving with the Navy in the Far East. Sir Charles is the second baronet, and succeeded his father, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles Madden, in 1935. He married Lady Madden, who was formerly Miss Olive Robins, in 1942 lirodrick Vernon Ll and Mrs ...

... Front row Capts. J. R. Brierley, M.C., F. H. Hunter, A. W. B. Goode, M.C., D. H. Drewell, Major. B. G. Kiddy, Lt.-Col. T. A. Rotherham, D.S.O., M.C., Majors W. Spencer, H. V. Thomas, D. Jenkins, M.C., Capts. R. J. Evans, D. C. Denne, W. B. Basford. Middle row Lts. A. G. Lawton, P. F. Tetley, M. C. Wilson, M. A. Dix-Peek, Capts. G. W. Lovelace, A. W. L. White, C. N. M. Strugnell, Lts. T. A. D. ...

... WITH SILENT FRIENDS By Elizabeth Bowen A Quest ANN BRIDGE'S novels-- ever since Peking Picnic-- have been saluted for many qualities: not least for the brilliance and variety of their backgrounds. The foreign countries in which Miss Bridge places her groups of characters are much more than painted scenery against which, as on the stage, men and women move: they reflect themselves on to, even ...

... Way of the World By Simon Harcourt-Smith The American Mind BY the time this appears we may know something of our negotiations with America to find a substitute for Lease-Lend. Let us in the meanwhile be careful not to look aggrieved. All the luscious sentimentalities of the last few years, resounding platitudes about a common love of democracy and a common stock have dangerously obscured the ...

... Perfect Strangers A Glemence Dane Solution To The Problems 01' War Separation In Perfect Strangers a young couple, separated by war, are faced by all the emotional diffi culties of readjustment which must be facing many hundreds of young couples today. It is Clemence Dane's solution to a world-wide problem. In it, Robert Donat and Deborah Kerr establish their first screen partnership. The film ...

... ON AND OFF DUTY A Chronicle of Town and Country Palace Visitors BEFORE they left London for Balmoral, both Their Majesties were busy with various matters and engagements which they wished to clear up in order to begin their holiday in the North with nothing outstanding. At Buckingham Palace, the King gave final pre-holiday audiences to both the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary, and ...

... Horse Show, Gymkhana and Grand Fete Held at Ellens, the Home of Major and Mrs. Carlos Clarke at Rudgwick, in Sussex Although the weather was dull, it was warm and the rain kept off during the very successful combined Horse Show, Gymkhana and Grand Fete which was held at Ellens, the home of Major and Mrs. Carlos Clarke. The proceeds went to the funds for the new village hall, and everyone ...

... Dame Irene Vanbrugh, the celebrated stage and screen actress came with Sir Pelham Warner, who retires this month from his duties as deputy secretary of the M.C.C. Noel Coward's Sigh No More Mr. Henry Channon, M.P. for Southend-on-Sea, who married Lady Honor Guinness the Earl of Iveagh's elder daughter, in 1933, sat next to Mrs. Corrigan Lady Windermere' s Fan, Revived by John Gielgud Lady ...

... PRISCILLA II PARIS Fun of the Fair D.O.A.H.-- When I want to forget all my unimportant, nagging little worries-- the lack of new stockings, a dearth of darning cotton to mend those that still survive, a bitter longing for butter, the difficulty in finding decent face cream for the old phiz, the ever- present knowledge that there is something extremely rotten in the state of-- (never mind which ...

... Golfers New and Old by Mel ...