... QUEEN CHARLOTTE'S BALI ND OTHER NOTABLE EVENTS. Dogs as well as dog-lovers came to the Dumb Friends League Committee Meet ing for the Animals Welfare Dinner Dance I fixed for April 10. Here are Sir Pelham Warner's Simon, Mrs. Calvert Empson's Cirque, and Mrs. C. Porter's Jeep MR. J. BONHAM KIDSTON. of Hazelbury Manor, Box, married the HON. PATRICIA MANNERS, daughter of Lord and Lady Manners, ...

... . f I *HESE portraits by COWAN DOBSON are on view in the exhibition of his recent work which opened to the public on April 2 after a crowded private view, and continues until the first week in May, at Frost and Reed's New Bond Street gallery. Mrs. Cowan Dobson is her husband's favourite model, and this new full-length of her was specially painted as the centre-piece of his show. Countess ...

... . MISS ANNE CONSTABLE-MAXWELL, in the dress which she wore at her coming-out dance which was attended by Princess Elizabeth. A close-up of debutante MISS ANNE CONSTABLE-MAXWELL, daughn °f Wing Commander and Mrs. Gerald Constable- Maxwell. MISS ELIZABETH BUXTON, daughter of Major Anthony and Mrs. Buxton, of Horsey Hall Great Yarmouth. This is the dress which MISS ELIZABETH BUXTON wore at the ...

... The two daughters of Lord and Lady Louis Mounthatten PATRICIA aged twenty -two, lately demobilised from the W.R.N.S., and PAMELA aged seventeen, accompanied their father and mother to the Mansion House recently, when Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander S.E.A.C., received the Freedom of the City and a token of the coveted Sword of Honour, which itself is still in the hands ...

... ETON v. HARROW AT LORD'S AGAIN E TEAMS BROUGHT THEIR FAMILIES. Brilliant printed crepe- A de Chines, vivid A ostrich feathered, flowered and veiled head-dresses were paraded on the green last week when after a seven- years' lapse the Eton v. Harrow cricket match came into its own again at Lord's. There [Continued opposite. LORD and LADY SCAR- BROUGH went to see the match with the LADIES MARY, ...

... BACK TO GLYNDEBOURNE THE SOCIAL SIDE. In the most glittering stretch of high summer we have had for years Mr. John Christie's Glyndebourne opera house reopened with British opera Benjamin Britten's 44 Rape of Lucrelia. With thirsty expectation opera-lovers in full evening dress crowded down to Lewes strolled among the flowers and trees of the lovely grounds during intervals and after dinner. ...

... At the Mermaid Of all the old London taverns which have dis appeared none is so well known and honoured as the Mermaid. Although no trace of it re mains and even its very site is disputed some say it was in Bread St/eet and some in Friday Street it will always be remembered as the meeting place of those mighty wits of the Elizabethan age. Raleigh, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare and others were ...

... PRINCESS ANNA BONCOMPANI, a ski-ing friend of Miss Sheena Mackintosh, daughter of Lady Jean Mackintosh, is one of the fortunate few enjoying wintersports. The HON. MRS. BATHURST was snapped setting out with skis over her shoulder from her St. Moritz hotel. CAPTAIN BILL BRACKEN, and a most promising pupil, MISS SHEENA MACKINTOSH. She was first among the women competitors in the Mid-Season Cup ...

... - FIELD-MARSHAL VISCOUNT MONTGOMERY OF ALAMEIN, New C.I.G.S., for being a learner in the snow after having been a great leader in the sand. TJ* IELD-MARSHAL VISCOUNT MONT- 1 GOMERY OF ALAMEIN, Chief of the Imperial General Staff from June 26, 1946, arrived recently in Switzerland for a winter- sporting holiday. He took his first walks in deep snow round Saanen-Moser, the Alpine resort near ...

... . ^^lOLETTA PROHOROVA, who is to dance the Blue Bird pas de deux with Harold Turner to-morrow night in the second performance of The Sleeping Beauty, at Covent Garden, by the Sadler's Wells Ballet, is by birth a Russian. She was a coryphee at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, and came to this country as she is the wife of a British architect, Mr. Harold Elvin, son of Mr. A. H. Elvin, I a former ...

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