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... FROM General Smuts-- one of the very few people in the well-kept secret-- down wards, everyone in South Africa was delighted at the news that Their Majesties are to visit the youngest of the Dominions at the beginning of next year; and the news that both Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret are to accompany their parents added not inconsiderably to their pleasure. In other parts of the ...

... Eighteen -year old Lise Topart Plays Rebecc Lead in Paris Lise Topart, only eighteen years old, is well on the way to becoming one of Paris's leading actresses. She is already a 44 starlet/' and has been hailed as 44 a quite brilliant actress. She was a born one, and started acting in the kindergarten and kept on doing so until she was selected from many others by Rene Laporte to play the ...

... Pedigree bulls from all parts of Ireland, including a large entry from Northern Ireland, were to be seen at the first peace-time show of the Royal Dublin Society. For the first time since the war the show J was held in the grounds of the Society at Ballsbridge, Dublin, where Shorthorn, Hereford and Aberdeen- Angus Bulls were all judged on the first day Lt.-Col. the Hon. and Mrs. II erbr and ...

... GETTING HARRIED The Tatler and Bystander's Review of Weddings Carter Helps Capt. Herbert J. Tindall Carter, Royal Horse Guards, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Carter, of Tydd Manor, Wisbech, Cambs., married Miss Eve P. Elphinston Helps, only child of Col. and Mrs. R. P. A. Helps, of Hinwick House, Welling borough, Northants Levy Rose Capt. Gordon Levy, Essex Regimetit, son of Mr. and Mrs. ...

... On left A flying-boat service for the Atlantic route is being widely advocated these days, and special interest attaches to the latest design produced by the firm of Saunders Roe. This machine, which will probably be available for service in 1948, would be able to carry 100 passengers at a cruising speed of 300 m.p.h. on the 3,600-mile non-stop run to New York. Six gas turbines ...

... The use of the former Japan ese destroyer Yoizuki tc send Japanese prisoners of wai and civilian internees back to Formosa and Korea aroused a storm of protest when it became known that the ship sailed from Sydney with 1,200 people on board instead of a normal com plement of 450. The Australian Government referred the case to General MacArthur, who at once gave orders for the women and ...

... I On left The Catacombs of Paris, which have just been reopened, were formerly subterranean quarries, and they were worked as far back as the Roman period. They extend under a large part of the left bank area of Paris, and so great was the extent of this mining that in 1774 several streets in that area began to show symptoms of sinking. Steps were at once taken by the Government to avert the ...

... T- 'he forthcoming atomic-bomb tests at Bikini Atoll, in mid-Pacific, have been arousing the keenest argument in the American Press, and the Hearst newspapers have been busy rallying anti-vivisectionists to save the rats, goats, and pigs which are to be installed as guinea-pig crews in the doomed fleet. Meanwhile, preparations for the tests pro ceed apace, and on these pages are shown some of ...

... reviewing BOOKS ELIZABETH BOWES Georgian London. Pleiades 21s.) The Black Eye. Crime Club 8s. 6d.\ English Rivers and Canals. Collins 4s. 6d.) Architecture as History THE history of London has been continuously written in bricks and stone-- alas, for the many now missing pages! John Summerson, in his Georgian London (Pleiades Books; 21s.), has traced the fascinating con nection between the ...

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... THE Tatlei GOES TO A BRUSSELS WEDDING Below stairs, the chef, Van Acker, has prepared a banquet The Duchesse de Moitchy samples the coffee The bride is ready. Her beautiful veil of Mechlin lace was taken from the cradle of Napoleon II., King of Rome, son of Napoleon Bonaparte Photographs by Roger Schall. Paris ...