... SKELTON, Cumberland, is a village so small that one can pass through it without knowing, but it possesses an energetic farming committee that many a large town would envy. This committee organise the principal ploughing contest in the North, and these pictures show some of the winners of this year's event which brought a large and critical crowd. Excitement ran high as the allotted time ran ...

... Young Farmers' New Interest The Attractions of Forestry UP to the present, Young Farmers' Clubs have concentrated chiefly on livestock and general farming, but in West Sussex, members are acquiring a keen interest in Forestry as well. Before the war our two milhon acres of woodland produced only 4 per cent, of the timber used in the country, but now we plan to raise the area under forests to ...

... The Strange Face Of Mr. Danny Kaye Wonder Man Danny/Kaye certainly has to be something of a wonder man in this fast-inoving Technicolor production about twin brothers. He has two leading ladies, one for one brother, and one for the other, and has his work cut out dealing with both of them. One brother, Buzzy Bellew, is murdered, and his spirit inhabits the body of his scholarly twin, Edwin ...

... A New Amanda for 44 Private Lives At the Apollo Theatre Googie Withers Googie Withers is the new Amanda in Noel Coward's Private Lives at the Apollo Theatre, a part which was previously played by Kay Hammond. A most charming and versatile actress, Miss Withers is also to be seen in the dramatic role of a lUrderess, in the new film Pink String :iid Sealing Wax. She has appeared in many British ...

... St. Andrew's Day at Eton A Fine Day for the First Peace time November Celebrations St. Andrew's Day at Eton this year was fortunate in having perfect dry Novem ber weather. First there was the final of the Lower Boys' House Cup, where both sides played with unflagging spirit and were still going strong when the game was ended. The Wall Came which came next was Mr. George Lyttelton's last match ...

... OCR GREAT WORRY IS FOR THE CHILDREN AT the Théâtre de Paris, one of Volterra's theatres, a stage version of Daphne du Mlaurier's famous novel Rebecca is to be pro duced after the Christmas holidays. It will be played by Fernand Gravey-- who, when he acts for the films at Hollywood, spells his name Gravet, for obvious reasons-- and a very young, seventeen-year-old starette, Lise Topart. E.N.S ...

... PICTURES IN THE FIRE St Andrew and The Wall By Sabretache THERE surely need be no hesitation about assuring an enquirer that Scotland's great Saint had no connection at all with a pastime called The Wall Game, for he was impaled many centuries before Henry VI. even thought of founding Eton! Furthermore, I suggest that it would be extremely dangerous even to hint at such a thing in the presence ...

... -- Ity Richard King: HIS patter was perfection. Our interests would always be his interests. Our comfort his chief concern. He liked the job, the place and ourselves. His one desire was to start at once. For the first three days he fulfilled all our and his own expectations. Then followed a sad decay. At the end of a fortnight we had to dismiss him for laziness and incompetence. He was a ...

... Princess Margaret Rose, younger daughter of T.M. Ihe King and Queen, has made excellent progress since her operation for appendicitis on November 22 at Buckingham Palace and at the time of writing it was stated that she was making good progress towards convalescence. Princess Margaret was horn on August 21, 1930. Before her operation she hud been going about a great deal with her elder sister, ...

... PORTRAITS II PUNT Lady Wantage A THOUSAND memories of childhood rose up last week with the sale at Sotheby's of part of the Wantage collection. Harriett Wantage, like so many of the figures dominating a small boy's world, was at once the awe-inspiring potentate and a fount of kindness, the terrible goddess and the fairy godmother. Her many gestures of affection, the exquisite model aeroplanes ...

... At The Pictures with CuuuulJ A Bad Film Is A Bad Film Whoever Makes It THE Editor of the Tatler has received the following' letter from a lady:-- I and many other readers am still wondering why you continue to let James Agate be your film critic? He only dis parages any English film that appears, and if anyone took his column seriously there would hardly ever be a film worth going to. He makes ...

... Important Wedding in Angus The Marriage of Miss Douglas of Brigton to Major I. L. E. Macmillau Major I. L. E. Macmillan, and Mrs. Macmillan after the ceremony Elizabeth I °f the IT arnsay fl J,°n. o- z ...