... THE START Thirty-four runners lined up at the post, but only six completed the course. THE CHAIR JUMP Bogshar, the 1940 winner, fell at the lialfxvay stage, in company with Gyppo (No. 34). SECOND TIME ROUND Still standing at Becker's were Prince Regent, Limestone Edward, Ilousewarmer, Jack Finlay, Schubert and Suzerain II. The photographer had the luck to gel Lovely Cottage landing, followed ...

... HpHE English Jersey Cattle Society's A Spring Show and Sale was held at Reading on March 27. Unfortunately, foot-and-mouth disease restrictions pre vented a number of would-be exhibitors attending. The Loctcwood Cup for the best bull was won by Moles Royalist, exhibited by Mr. W. Borthwick, of Moles Farm, Ware, Herts, and Miss Galley's Burderop Jonquil was the winner of the female championship ...

... A PLEDGE has been given that agriculture will not be allowed to become a distress industry, as it did between the two Great Wars, and that labour must be paid enough to provide a decent standard of living. This means that the British market will not be a dumping ground for surpluses, and the authorities may require that food imports come from countries where proper attention is paid to soil ...

... HOUND TRAIL PRACTICE in Westmorland. All the local trail hounds mere brought along for a try-out day at Seat Sandal, Gras- mere, in preparation for the opening of this popular sport's season. TIME MOVES BACK: The famous Old Father Time weather vane at Lord's, which was torn away by a barrage balloon in 1940, has been restored to its original position. BRADFIELD COLLEGE steeplechases. ...

... £15,225 The World's Record Price was paid for Pittodrie Upright STILL ANOTHER CONVINCING PROOF THAT The Scotch Shorthorn IS SUPREME FOR BREEDING STOCK TO MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE BEEF INDUSTRY JTHE SCOTTISH SHORTHORN BREEDERS' ASSOCIATION 77 George Street, Edinburgh, 2 Telephone 30337. The original and pre- eminent MEN'S GARTER London made since the last century. f-- i Bull The Garter ...

... The work of skilled and willing hands-, The wheel cc^. still needs a hefty shoulder, Sticking it out, the face grows holder. Our socks, alas, are too short, But pull em up as a last resort. Good-bye, Brass Hats it's still brass tacks And up-turned stones reveal hard facts. As to our belts, they cant be tighter But Guinness helps to make life brighter. G.E. 1249. A ...

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... AT THE PICTURES \Jcuuuul4 An Exquisite Film THE paths of theatrical glory lead but to old age. Is there anything more frighten ing than the ageing actor or actress? It was a cruel but realistic wit who said: There may be seven ages of Man; actresses have only three ages-- no chicken, wears wonderfully, and simply marvellous! To the non-player old age has its consolations. Consider yonder ...

... Romeo and Juliet Produced by T.R.T. at the King's Theatre, Hammersmith Romeo and Juliet is among the repertoire of plays produced by T.R.T., now running a season of repertory at the King's Theatre, Hammersmith. The season goes on till the end of June, and Romeo and Juliet is being played twice a week until the company launch their full number of six plays. T.R.T. is directed by Basil C. ...

... US BALLETS DES CHAIHPS-ELYSEES CONE! fO LONDON Pn c -/l a- Don /v cl T .1 S* J9 Youly Algaroff, Irene Skorik and Christian Foye E Jean Bahilee in Jeu de Cartes 0 Les Ballets des Champs-EIysees ..opened at the Adelphi Theatre on April 9th under the patronage of H.E. the French Ambassador, M. Massigli. The ballet, which comes straight from Paris, owes its origin in 1945 to the determination of ...

... One Man Who Plays Many Parts Bernard Miles, the Character Actor, and His Actress Wife, Josephine Wilson, with Their Small Son John Bernard Miles, actor, playwright and producer, is appearing now at the Scala Theatre for Theatre 46 in A Century for George Face of Coal and in his own play Let Tyrants Tremble. This versatile actor's first play is a comedy about the Home Guard. Mr. Miles himself ...

... PICTURES IN THE FIRE By Sabretache What Next OUR Public Arbiter Elegantiarum, the Brains Trust, having told an anxious and, as it seemed to be suggested, an almost pernickety, inquirer that a musical critic is well within his rights if he borrows epithets from other forms of diversion, the question at once arises: Where do we go from here? The critic said something about someone's music ...