... Myself at the Pictures A Parable and a Film By James Agate A FILM parable. There was once a talent spotter who was paid £10,000 a year to spot talent. For eleven months he kept his eyes open without encountering so much as a ha'porth of aptitude. At the beginning of the twelfth month he decided that what couldn't be spotted must be invented. So he hied him to a suburb full of ordinary-looking ...

... DIFFICULTIES of travel these days makes St. Andrews about as inaccessible as Timbuctoo, but it was fitting that the last major golf tournament of the year should be held there. Though few were there in flesh, many roamed in spirit over the Old Course last week. For those who could not be present, here are pictures of the most famous golf links in the world, with the winner of the Daily Mail ...

... BY OUR HORTICULTURAL CORRESPONDENT AT the present time a wholesale switch-over from wartime to peace time gardening would be almost as difficult as it is undesirable. Labour is short, ornamental plants and other gardening materials are scarce, and, what is more im portant, the country is by no means out of the wood in the matter of food production. Elaborate reconstruction schemes wnicn ...

... THE ever pro gressive Per- cheron Horse Society introduced a pleasing innovation at its Autumn Show and Sale at Histon, Cambridge. Three Young Farmers from local clubs acted as official judges in con junction with the Senior officials. The Histon Stud won the Champion Cup with a mare bred by Cambridge University Farm from the stallion Limon. Offspring by the same sire sold for 700 and 370 ...

... King of Fishes THE STURGEON-and the Revival of a Great Russian Industry NOW that life is slowly but surely return ing to normal in the Soviet Union j as, indeed, in all Europe we may hope, in the near future, to witness the welcome reappearance in our shops and restaurants of that most favoured delicacy caviare. Although in England it is almost exclusively the select black type ikra that is ...

... ji il'I'/TI vw m f l V T T V Lv I NATIONAL ASSET On the Food Front, the elements must be fought and beaten if the Nation is to garner the fruits of the farmer's labours. Leaky roofs are Fifth Columnist No. 1 in the weather's war against the valuable contents of farm-buildings. From long experience farmers know that they can defeat the weather if they roof with Ruberoid. It keeps buildings ...

... 64 Victory Bells Party The Victory Bells Appeal in aid of the R.A.F. Benevolent Fund was given a stupendous send-off at a party given by Mr. and Mrs. James Frew at the Hungaria Restaurant. The bells have been cast from the metal of German aircraft shot down over this country, and are to be sold to the public at a minimum of £1 to commemorate the R.A.F. victory in the Battle of Britain. On the ...

... Officers of an Air Crew School Vivian, Hereford Front row S/Ldrs. J. D. Peterkin, W. F. Danton, W. Miller, G. B. Gilbert, W/Cdr. H. E. R. Nelson, W/Cdr. E. G. Bunce-Phillips (S.T.O.), A/Cdre. S. H. Ware (Commandant), W/Cdr. E. G. Couch, W/Cdr. A. L. Brain, S/Ldrs. P. W. S. Waddington, F. W. Fargus, H. J. W. Grainger, C. V. Richardson. Second row F/Lt. A. A. N. MacGregor, S/Ldr. A. J. A. Laing, ...

... I i Xtfaxx1* ard sefcn'. tue t l/c 0resent IT &H£r, servl1l& rreen *v°° J yiscov^ elder /,r'- j ss 1 l|^Hr74 °ck W 'i f v ^JTou Mrs. William Forbes seen sitting in the garden with her two children, Iain and Anthony, is the wife of Lieut. -Col. William Forbes, D.S.O., who is a grandson of the late Lieut.-Col. Foster Forbes, of Rothiemay Castle, Aberdeenshire, and a nephew of the Marchioness of ...

... new lial consoles a woman /or manv austerities when it is one o/ the new HATS ...

... WITH THE DAIMLER FLUID TRANSMISSION THERE'S A CAR COMING! Soonyou will see the new car whose name which wartime work has taught. In and fame are in one word Lanchester j speed in smoothness, in appeal to Graceful and fast-paced before the war, I the eye and bodily comfort, the new the new Lanchester adds the many lessons Lanchester is an incomparable car. BY APPOINTMENT THE J FAMOUS 1 FLUID ...

... THE well-known charac teristics of this valuable old breed of sheep, which is quite unequalled in wool- producing qualities and most popular for crossing, were maintained at the Society's recent show and sale. Average prices varied little with those of last year. The five pictures, on the left looking from top to bottom are of A general view of the Judging Ring Mr. E. W. Barker's shearling ram ...