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... EVERYTHING, nowadays, is either a problem to solve, or a question to consider. And nearly all the problems and questions have to do with matters of war, politics or education. I imagine that the B.B.C. news devotes 99.999 per cent of its time to these three mournful subjects. And among them there has occasionally appeared the question of Royal Air Force strength and the problem of recruiting ...

... His Excellency Dr. Paul J. Ruegger, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from Switzerland to Great Britain since 1944, is the subject of the first of The Tatler's new series, At the Court of St. James's, 011 page 195. Dr. Ruegger is not only the Swiss Republic's outstanding diplomat, but also an author of widespread repute, and several of his books 011 international law were ...

... She will act at the Comedie Frangaise. Never before have the French extended such an honour to an English actress THE internationally famous Comédie Francaise has broken a three-hundred-years-old tradition hy its recent invitation to Pamela Stirling to play in the company-- a tribute the more remarkable in view of her youth, for she is only twenty-five years of age. Her first part will be to ...

... IADY GEORGE SCOTT, wife of Lord George Montagu-Douglas-Scott, has been staying at Bexhill with her children, and they have shared a hut at Cooden Beach with the family of Lieut.-Colonel Anthony Stocker, of the 22nd Dragoon Guards. Colonel Stocker and his family are ideally situated for the holiday season as they have a charming country house at Moleyne's Mede, near Bexhill, in the garden of ...

... Aldershof Horse Show The Coaches Turn Out Even a five-mile drive did not take the exhibition gloss off the coach entries at the Aldershot Horse Show, organised by the Corps of Military Police for their Benevolent Fund. The winner was Captain W. Pearson, R.A.S.C. (middle coach) ...

... The Countess Fortescue and the Hon. Mrs. Rupert Hardy were judges in the Ladies Hacks class at Aldershot Horse Show Lieut. -Colonel R. K. Chiesman, President of the Shore, and Major E. N. L. Venn, the Chairman H.R.H. Princess Alexandra presenting the cup to the winner of the Children's Ponies class ...

... GETTING MARRIED The Tatler and Bystander's Review of Weddings Douglas-Home Straker-Smith The Hon. Edward Douglas-Home fourth son of the Earl and Countess of Home of The Hirsel, Coldstream, married Miss Nancy Rose Straker-Smith, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Straker-Smith, of Carham Hall, Cor nhill-on-T weed, at St. Cuthbert's Norham-on-Tweed. The Master of Elphinstone was best man, ...

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... Ronald Nearae is a young man whose name is heard ^with increasing frequency in British film productions. Recog nised to be one of the greatest lighting experts in this country, he has recently turned to the field of production. He was director of lighting in Noel Coward's In Which We Serve and in This Happy Breed as well as being jointly in charge of production. He, David Lean and Anthony ...

... AT THE COURT OF ST. JARES'S ONLY a short distance from Everest, the world's most defiant mountain that rises nearly 30,000 feet, the all-powerful Prime Minister of the kingdom of Nepal watched his eight sons closely, for he held unequivocal views about smoking, drinking, and similar pleasures. If he noticed any of them leaving the palace grounds after 4 p.m. the displeasure became obvious, and ...

... HER MAJESTY QUEEN MARY, as vigorous and energetic as ever, has been going about a good deal in the two or three weeks since she returned to London from her holiday at Sandringham. The Britain Can Make It Exhibition was an obvious attraction to that Royal expert on exhibitions, whose feats of endurance in walking round the endless- seeming galleries of the British Industries Fairs before the ...