... PR1SCIHA in PARIS 44 OF COIRSE, THE AUDIENCE WORKS HARD TOO Paris, December 10 th. THE requirements of early posting for Christmas, together with the happy-go- lucky methods of the French P.T.T. (read, Postes, Télégraphes et Téléphones), make it quite impossible for me to guess whether you will get this while you are still somnolent from Christmas fare-- I hope you will have had the ...

... A Mother and Daughter Penelope Ward and Her Daughter Tracy Pelissier Penelope Ward is at present appearing in that record-breaking success Blithe Spirit, at the Duchess Theatre, which reached its 1,918th performance on December 29. The only record it still has to beat is that of the great last-war success, Chu Chin Chow. Miss Ward, who joined the cast in June 1944, is the third Elvira in the ...

... Where The Big Shows Are Created Robert Nesbitt Tbe Man Wbo Does It In a room on top of a big building in Shaftesbury Avenue, London's theatre street, sits the man who dreams in terms of masses of girls, masses of dresses, soft lights and sweet music and masses of glamour. He is Robert Nesbitt, one of the foremost producers of today. Such shows as Happy and Glorious. The Night and the Music and ...

... Marriage of the Earl of Bessborough's Daughter Lady Moyra and Mr. Denis Browne, Guests and Attendants at the Reception The marriage of Lady Moyra Ponsonby, only daughter of the Earl and Countess of Bcssborough, to Mr. Denis John Browne, the distinguished surgeon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Browne, was an important social function, and the guests at the ceremony in Grosvenor Chapel, and the ...

... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart Money and Motors WHEN an individual is in low water financially, he stops borrowing and tries to save; when a nation is in low water it seems that it starts borrowing and begins to spend on every conceivable social and other service at record speed. In all the talk that went on about the American loan, this central fact about the behaviour of Britain now escaped ...

... Throughout five years of war Mrs. A. V. Alexander never failed, whatever the difficulties, to hold her Christmas Party for Allied Children at Admiralty House, and this year the gathering was once again one of the best children's parties of the season. The amusements included the roundabout generously lent by Mr. Butlin, and the Sparks Marionettes. Among the guests were the daughter of Mme. ...

... Mr. M. Gaisford, Irish Guards took the floor with Miss Mary Brock- Edwards, daughter of Lady Chesham This supper-table group consists of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Templeton, Mr. Michael Parkes, Miss Joanna Littleton Mr. Peter Kapff, the Hon. Sheila Portman, the Hon. Anthony Wedgwood Benn, elder son of Lord Stansgate, Miss Charmian Allsopp, Miss Rose Anne Templeton and Lt. Angus Cadder R.A.N. V.R. ...

... 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, ...

... The Plough Before the Horse What Two-and-a-Half Horse-Power Can Accomplish HPHERE has been comment recently, in the House of Commons J- and elsewhere, that our agricultural implement firms are behind the times in ideas for machines to help the farmer and market gardener. To draw these invidious distinctions between our engineers and those of the United States seems unfair. The comments seem to ...

... Our Arable Land is it Losing its Fertility? WARNINGS have been uttered that, as a result of intensive wartime cropping, we may ultimately create dust- bowls in this country comparable with those of Kansas, Colorado and Oklahoma. These fears, we think, are groundless. The good farmer, somehow, has seen to it that there has been no appreciable loss of fertility on his farm. In a minority of ...