... 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 ...

... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart Tiered Transport ONLY an aircraft carrier and a bicycle are needed to add to the Avro York motor car transporter in order to produce a mechanical equivalent of the saying about big fleas having little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em. Or one might liken it to the Chinese boxes. The aircraft carrier would carry the aircraft, the aircraft would carry a motor car ...

... Simon, Christopher and Marie Audrey, the Children of Mr. and Mrs. Alan Coldham B Marcus Adams Simon, who was born in 1940, with the twins Christopher and Marie Audrey, three years younger, are the children of Mr. Alan Coldham, formerly of Melbourne, Australia, the well- known tennis player, and Mrs. Alan Coldham. Their mother was Miss Eileen Eveleigh-de-Moleyns, the only daughter of the Hon. ...

... Way of the World By Simon Harcourt-Smitb Flying Down to Rio To my jaundiced eye London has become one vast departure platform, with myself seeing everybody off. At each corner I seem to meet radiant faces announcing voyages to gay and sunny parts of the world. My friend Hugo Gouthier, First Secretary of the Brazilian Embassy and with whom I am staying as I write these lines, is, for instance, ...

... nd The Families in Perthshire Lady David Douglas-Hamilton and Lady Margaret Drummond-Hay Lady Margaret Drummond-Hay and Her Small Daughter, Kirsty A family parly on the steps included Malcolm Drummond-Hay, Lady David Douglas-Hamilton, Jane Drummond-Hay, Diarmid Douglas-Hamilton, Annela Drummond-Hay, Iain Douglas-Hamilton and Kirgly Drummond-Hay Seggieden, on the Ban I i f ti e. Tay Near Perth ...

... WITH SILENT FRIENDS By Elizabeth Bowen Love Astray ALLAN SEAGER, an American, is already well known as a short-storyist: his work has been appearing for some time in magazines in his own country, and in collections over here. Since 1935 he has been instructor in English at the University of Michigan. There is nothing academic about his first novel, Equinox (Heinemann; 10s. 6d.)-- though there ...

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