... LONG ago, when whisky was 12s. 6d. a bottle and queues were only seen outside theatres, there was a charming hotel in the West End-- the French would call it intime-- where the owner, a silver-haired old lady then in her late seventies, came around in the morn ings at about 9 o'clock to call on her guests and see if they were all right and quite comfortable. She was usually dressed in an ...

... Rugby Football: the Army Against the Navy at Twickenham Played in the Snow Last-Minute Try Win for the Army 0 It was a last-minute win for the Army against the Navy at Twickenham recently. The Army scored two tries, but the Navy countered with two penalty goals, and no-side was only a minute ahead when the Army snatched a third try and converted it. Despite snowstorms and bitterly cold wind, ...

... The Cambridge Crew Out on the River This year's President of the Oxford University Boa, Club is Mr. R. T. T. Warwick of Oriel. He is rowing at No. 2 in the Oxford boat Mr. J. Paton- Phillip Perse School and St. Johns), President of the Cambridge University Boat Club. The Boat Race is on March 30th 7 The Oxford Crew Paddling Over the Henley Course ...

... lean Larimer's Page Deep armholes, slit pockets and a lovely fullness in the back swing of the skirt distinguish this attractive spring coat. It is made of a fine woollen material, scarlet £S&? in colour and trimmed with black. Jaeger shop at SeifHdge's Scarlet and black is again the colour scheme here. The jacket has the new rounded shoulder line, saddle-stitched in black. It is worn over a ...

... INTO Gevle, on the romantic Gulf of Bothnia, into Oslo, Copenhagen and Stockholm, recently sailed a ten-ton boat, Wagen, with a grey-haired, sharp featured, deeply tanned holiday-maker, accompanied by an elderly helmsman. It was his first return to the indented coasts for six or seven years, and he warmed gratefully to the sun, to the gently lapping waters, the picturesque birches and firs ...

... Mrs. Birling sublimely unaware that she is to be drawn into the vortex of self -revelation, treats the forthcoming examination by the Inspector very lightly Julien Mitchell Margaret Leighton, Marian Spencer and Ralph Richardson) ...

... One of the most promising of the new generation of film stars, Barbara White first decided to become an actress when, as a little girl, she visited her aunt's school of dramatic art at Southend-on-Sea. Her first important part was that of Miranda in The Tempest at the Stratford-on-Avon Memorial Theatre, but she had her first real chance understudying Glynis Johns in Esther McCracken's Quiet ...

... M.D. LYON, who has just had a new Resident Magistrate's Court opened for him at Nyeri, Kenya Colony, might, with a little more of je ne sais quoi, have been another Jack Hulbert. He had melody, wit the light fantastic in toe, touch, and tongue. But, like most of the too vari ously brilliant, he had a demon of restlessness. He sipped each flower and changed every hour. Nor could he suffer a ...

... The King and Queen recently visited the exhibition of their own pictures from the Royal Palaces probably the greatest private collection in the world at the Royal Academy under ideal conditions of display. The Queen is seen admiring 44 The Adoration of the Shepherds, by Jacopo Bassano, with Tintoretto's 44 Portrait of a Dominican near by. Her companion is Sir Alfred Munnings, R.A., President ...

... PRINGl E OF SCOTLAND onottxer oe cwtiLf CU mere !>j jVmofe Beautiful Hazel Court, of Root of All Evil \and Carnival fame, wearing a lovely Cashmere Set by Pringle of Scotland. LNPIII9 ...

... Oil FLYING OLD aeroplanes never die and they seem to take much longer than one would suppose in lading away. It is by no means unusual to enter a hangar on a strange aerodrome and to see, pushed away in one corner, some old aero plane like a Sopwith triplane, or an S.E.5, or a Camel. And now some of the old light aeroplanes are beginning to put in a surprising reappearance. Widgeons and Pixies ...

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