... is the Norman-born wife of the Earl of Shaftesbury's son and heir. She is concentrating on relief work for the destroyed and devastated villages of her country through the Association des Amis des Volontaires Frangais, and was Chairman at the dance which was held early this year at Grosvenor House to raise funds for the Falaise Settlement. She has two children, the Hon. Anthony Ashley-Cooper ...

... Miss P. B. Hammick on Gamesky taking the last jump in the Ladies Challenge Cup Viscount Cowdray and Cdr. Latham. Lord Cowdray lives at Cowdray Park, Midhurst Major-Gen. S. S. Butler, the starter. He was head of the British Military Mission in Ethiopia from 1941 to 1943 Mrs. M. N. Tufnell, winner of the Ladies' Challenge Cup, with her horse, Bonny Girl ...

... NOT long before the Court left Buckingham Palace, Princess Elizabeth, who has been the guest of honour at so many parties and dances in the West End in recent weeks, gave a small return party of her own at Buckingham Palace, to which some forty of her closest friends of both sexes were invited. It was an informal pre-dinner gathering, and for two hours from six o'clock onwards, the Princess ...

... PRISCILM m PARIS On ne peut pas tout avoir PANEM ET CIRCENSES! The circus was sufficiently evident, but where, oh, where was the sturdy ox of the Mi-Carêmes of yester-years? The Bœuf-Gras that, until twelve years ago, was king of the procession and was paraded through the streets, slaughtered at the end of the day and distributed to the poor of Paris. (For poor read blokes- with-a-pull.) The ...

... is the wife of Viscount Templewood, the former Sir Samuel Hoare, who was created Viscount Templewood of Chelsea in 1944. Lady Templewood, who is a D.B.E., was formerly Lady Maud Lygon, daughter of the sixth Earl Beauchamp. At the present time they are both about to start for South America where Lord Templewood is going on a lecture tour. In a distinguished diplomatic and political career, Lord ...

... Sunshine and Shadow Tell 3ix Street Stories in London The Ladies in Light Conversation Portrait of a Road Sweeper ICs Somewhere ill My Handbag'''' and Better Allowances for Us Barrel of Beer, or What Won the 2.30? ...

... PICTURES IN THE FIRE By Sabretache The Wet Umbrella THE striking analogy between a very famous picture of French origin, and what we read about ourselves in the daily broad sheets, must have occurred to even the least observant. The picture, which appeared in either Le Journal Amusant or La Vie many years ago, showed' us a wet umbrella standing in a corner in the hall and creating the cus ...

... First All- Arab Horse Show in this Country The Arab Horse Society's Show of Arabian Stallions and Young Stock at Roehampton Polo Club Arabian Colts in the Judging Ring Miss Van Damm with Freda, owned by Mr. H. V. M. Clark Mrs. H. Gordon shows her Arabian colt Iman Miss Jean Tinteren Miss Betty Clark, daughter of Mr. H. V. M. Clark Miss Mary Arkle, and Miss Van Damm. Major Faudel- Phillips, O.B ...

... 44 Why shouldn't a smartly-dressed woman attend Boris Kochno's Champs-Elysees Ballets in an outfit resembling the one her mother wore when she went to Diaghilev's Ballets Russes I would like this tendency, which I consider to be the true expression of feminine elegance, to be adopted. So le coutourier Pierre Balmain, youngest and most-discussed of the Paris designers (the man who made Mile. ...

... Vean Lorimer at the Paris Collections Balmain's beloved stripes again. Gleaming channels of red and white satin burst into an utterly feminine froufrou of fine white lace. The osprey head-dress is perhaps the most immediately popular of the 1946 innovations Lucien Le long's lovely navy satin shows how the new rounded jacket-line is introduced in evening wear. In front the fullness is caught ...

... reviewing BOOKS ELIZABETH BOWES Translation A WOMAN OF THE PHARISEES (9s.) is the first of a Collected Edition of the novels of François Mauriac, to be published by Messrs. Eyre and Spottiswoode; translation into English by Gerard Hopkins. This project of giving us, in our own language, the complete works of a novelist who is by general consent the greatest living French writer is an ...

... Make It -A Date Marianne Davis brings off a very successful double in London's latest revue Make It A Date at the Duchess Theatre. She is not only a most charming leading lady but also, with Leigh Stafford, the producer of the show. Tall, fair and American-born, Marianne Davis first made her reputation in London as a cabaret singer. Marianne Davis and .Jane Carr were an eagerly sought-after ...