... 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 II PRINT Simon Harcourt-Smith 77 ig old order changeth, yielding place to new And God fulfils himself in many ways Lest one good custom should corrupt the world'' -ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Twelfth Night I AM inclined to regret that the modern emphasis on Christmas and New Year's Eve has driven Twelfth Night out of English fashion. In France, and particularly in Belgium, it is still the ...

... Flanagan and Allen are on the top of their inimitable form in this light hearted comedy about two newspaper men, who get in and out of innumerable difficulties trying to expose a corrupt newspaper magnate. The film starts with Bud and Ches wearily plodding over the desert. However, Bud does not think this sort of journey really necessary so they devise a new plot for the film and hence the ...

... YOUNG ASPIRANTS FOR STARDOM Learn Their Trade at the Aida Foster School in London The stage as a career is the dream of almost every little girl and quite a few small boys as well. Schools where stagecraft in all its many aspects is taught, combined with general education, are very popular. The Aida Foster school is among the foremost institutions of this kind. Founded in 1929, it has a ...

... PICTURES IN THE FIRE By Sabretache Keyes of Zeebrugge EVERYONE who knew the late Lord Keyes realises in full measure the loss which his Service and the nation have sustained. If it ever were true to say of anyone that he was without fear and without reproach, it was so where he was concerned. In and out of the Navy he inspired genuine affection and an abiding admiration. He was that unhappily ...

... Capt. R. F. Hickey, U.S. Navy Air Attache, Col. A. IHecksher, Brazilian Air. Attache, and Col. Milton Turner, U.S. Army Air Attache Marshal of the R.A.F. Sir Arthur Tedder, who has been created a baron in the New Year's Honours, with Lady Tedder, and the Under-Secretary for Air, Mr. Strachey, and Mrs. Strachey w- ._i. i mmmmtm i Marshal of the R.A.F. Lord Portal of Hungerford and Air Cdr. ...

... I You tig Dancers at the Bar Left The dancers are mainly prac tising the graceful position of the hand in elementary steps, tchile Miss Anita Foster corrects the attitude of June Garland, aged fourteen, who has just been booked for the Birming ham Repertory Company A Singing Rehearsal: Norma Newton, aged eleven, sings Little Old Lady in rehearsal for a cabaret. Many cabaret shows are held at ...

... PRISCILM in PARIS Quite like the dear, dull days before the other war Paris, December 23 rd. TIE up the knocker. Say I 'm sick--I'm dead! This sounds like the morning after rather than the night before, but judging from the honestly-advertised prices of the Réveillon fare that warn us we shall be lucky if we can make gay for anything less than £15 per head T doubt whether I shall get ...

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