... A Royal Family Reunion in Australia Lord and Lady Louis Mountbatten with the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester at Canberra and Visit of Their Royal Highnesses to Mildura In beautiful weather, the citizens of Mildura turned out to greet their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester when they paid an aerial visit and were shown some of the district* s activities at Red Cliffs and ...

... Lt.-Col. and Mrs. Wilfred E. Lyde. Cvl. Lyde's Gay Galliard ran in the Lincoln Mr. Matheson, Mr. Heaton, Miss Howitt, Mr. Powell, Lady Heaton, Mrs. Matheson Miss Wynne-Edwards and Sir Frederick Heaton Capt. F. B. Bolton and Mrs. D. Graham. The Old Berkeley is divided into two packs, the East and the West ...

... PICTURES IN THE FIRE By Sabretache The National ANY jockey in any race who, from any cause whatsoever, is compelled to go the wrong pace at any period of the contest, almost inevitably finds himself headed for defeat. This is the more true if the distance is long and the horse has a big weight. It is especially true of the Grand National, and the fact is underlined by reason of the very ...

... THE GRAND NATIONAL THE SCENE AND THE RACE THE first post-war Grand National brought thousands of people streaming north to Aintree; Liverpool did its share to put them up, and so did Chester and other nearby towns. Many came for the day from London on third class only and no food trains, but that was not going to deter the real enthusiast! There were about 15,000 cars and coaches parked on ...

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... Ballerina and Her Daughter June Brae is the Leading Dancer at the Wells and a Guest Artist at the Royal Opera House Last week June Brae took part in the presentation of two new ballets on April 8th she danced the leading role in Assembly Ball, Andree Howard's new ballet at Sadler's Wells Theatre, and, two nights later, as a guest artist, she took a leading part in Robert Helpmann's Adam Zero, ...

... 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 ...

... I Last week was a big week in the theatre, and, in addition to several new productions, it was made particularly notable by the three special matinees staged on behalf of the King George's Pension Fund for Actors and Actresses. About £7,000 was raised by the three matinees, and following The Importance of Being Earnest the King and Queen received the players. During the week the Princesses ...

... YY/hen Lord Winster, Minister of Civil Aviation, recently visited Heathrow, Middlesex, with Members of Parliament and Foreign Air Attaches, he announced that hence forward Heathrow would be known as London Airport and that plans were on foot to convert the place into a great international terminus. Lord Winster explained that by taking in land on the north side of the Bath Road, the airport ...

... THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN OPENS IN ITALY Signer Togliatti, the Italian Communist leader, addressing his followers in the Cathedral Square, Milan. As he spoke, a train arrived at the Central Station bringing 1 ,200 prisoners of war from Russia. Many of the men told lurid tales of life in Soviet camps A MOMENT OF REUNION Returning prisoners of war searching for their rela tives on the Central ...