... PORTRAITS IN PRUT Simon Harcourt-Smith On Feeling Well Again ALL my life, perhaps because I have known so much of it, I have hated and despised illness. I warmly support the theory put forward by Samuel Butler in Erewhon, that the sick should go to prison and the wrongdoers to hospital. You could then talk of how Uncle Alfred was convalescing from his bad attack of embezzlement; but only ...

... PICTURES IN THE FIRE By Sabretache New Year Now Rooz Hogmanay MAN never is, but always to be! That somewhat unamiable creator of Belinda must have written this, so I feel, round and about the time when the date changes. He was probably staying with Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke, that in triguing politician who had a Sabine Farm, and a pack of hounds, at Bucklebury, on the Bath ...

... GETTING HARRIED The Tatler and Bystander's Review of Weddings Lane A ndrews G/Capt. Reginald J. Lane, D.S.O. D.F.C. and Bar R.C.A .F., son of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Lane, of Begbie Street, Victoria, British Columbia, married Miss Barbara Andrews daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. Andrews, of Sand Hill, Oval, Alwoodley, Leeds at St. John's, Moor Allerton Leeds Ramsay Burley Lt.-Cdr. James Maxwell Ramsay, ...

... PORTRAITS IN PRINT Simon Harcourt-Smith T/ie voice and the shape oj a woman has haunted me -JOHN KEATS L'Aiglon I WAS somewhat surprised the other night to find the B.B.C. wasting their precious time on Edmond Rostand's windy old rodomontade, L'Aiglon. It has always been a mystery to me why our parents would invariably return swimming in tears from this piece. The plot is fatuous, the Duke of ...

... AT THE PICTURES i j| One Would Have Thought-- ONE would have thought. But let me begin at the beginning. Who, or what, is the Film Society? Where does it hang out? Where and when does it hold its jamborees? Can one join it? I have done everything that is possible to contact this august body, but with complete insuccess. I have made a nuisance of myself in the public streets. Accosting tall ...

... A Tale Of Two Wars Claudette Colbert and Orson Welles in a Tragi-romance of Everyday Life Q (i Tornorroiv Is Forever covers the years from 1918 up to the present day. It is the story of a man reported missing, presumed dead, whose wife marries again. John (Orson Welles), seriously wounded and a permanent cripple, decides not to return to his American wife Elizabeth (Claudette Colbert). He ...

... Pantomime Roundabout Aladdin at the Cambridge Land of the Christmas Stocking at the Duke of York's Aladdin Has His Pants Patched (Binnie Hale, Hal Bryan BINNIE HALE knows all there is to know about principal boys as Aladdin she has the sure touch of the expert, the charm of ripe experi ence, the skill of a through-and-through artist. The pantomime is produced by Emile Littler, who has found a ...

... Miss Leveson-Gower Marries in London The Bride and Groom and Some of Their Guests at the Wedding Reception Mr. and Mrs. Charles Noel Janson. The bridegroom is in the Welsh Guards Viscountess Castlereagh and her sister-in-law, Lady Margaret Steivart. Lady Castlereagh s children, Lord Stewart and the Hon. Jane Stewart, were among the brides attendants Capt. C. 0. Janson, Coldstream Guards, ...

... The Versatility of a Great Artiste Cicely Courtneidge in Under the Counter Dancer's Stooge Cicely Takes a Beating £°ve Idle,, r?ess fr- Hartley' pCely CoUr, P°Uer) eidge Cross Purposes Cicely Courtneidge, Thorley Walters Photographs by Rlman 6- Glover Throughout the entire action of Under the Counter Cicely Courtneidge is seldom off the stage for more than a few moments at a time. In a dozen ...

... Sporting Newsreel Photographs from Here and There at Home and Abroad England's International Rugger Player to Marry Lt. Jacques Remlinger England* s wing three-quarter 1944-45, is engaged to Miss Noreen Shelmerdine. Lt. Remlinger was educated in this country and is therefore eligible to play for England D. R. Stuart The Oxford University Women's Squash Rackets Team The side are making a tour ...

... EXPERIENCE COUNTS/ THAT IS WHY YOI! CAN RKI.Y 0\ ...

... The Old Vic Company In Henry IV., Parts I. and II. Prince Hal And God forgive them that have so much sway'd Your Majesty's good thoughts away from me King Henry sternly admonishes his son, Prince Hal for his wild behaviour and his undesirable friends Michael Warre Nicholas Hannen) Lady Percy Tell me, sweet lord, what is't that tal from thee Thy stomach, pleasure and thy gold sleep Lady Percy ...