... AT THE PICTUKET JAMES AGATE Technihorror and All That A YOUNG woman once told me that she invariably read a novel while listening to the wireless, and kept the wireless on while she was reading. I asked her the reason for this extraordinary proceeding and she said, The one keeps my mind off the other. That, dear readers of the Tatler, is the sole justification for Technihorror. As the old ...

... Agatha Christie's New Thriller Murder on the Nile 9 Agatha Christie's new murder mystery takes place in the pleasure-seeking atmosphere of a tourist steamer on the Nile, while the subsequent conclusion also has a strong crime does not pay moral to it. A group of people are suspected of the murder of the rich bride who is on her honeymoon. Later, her French maid, who is about to disclose the ...

... I M RA SHEARER TITIAN-HAIRED BALLERINA 17HEi r. Harold C. King, Civil Engineer, 9 left nfermline, in Fifeshire, for Rhodesia 1 1932 h his wife and their only child Moira, o one ast of all Mr. King) suspected the ir-rear .g results of the journey. A woman iend v met out there, a former member rathe ighilev Company, first discovered in x-year d Moira the inherent qualities of a Bat d. ;er. When ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... i IN accordance with what used to be the invariable custom in the spring, Their Majesties extended invitations to several members of the Government to visit them at Windsor Castle with their wives, during the Court's Eastertide stay on Thames-side. By a happy chance, this year Easter Sunday coincided with the birthday of Princess Elizabeth, who was twenty on April 21. This enabled a larger- ...

... The bride and bridegroom with their attendants. The bridesmaids are the Hon. Sheila Butler, Miss Mary Rose Price Miss Lavinia Tower the Hon. Barbara Fisher and Miss Nina Power. The child attendants are Susan Price Susan Beale and Rebecca Phillpotts. The bride is the second daughter of the late Lord Dun boyne and of Lady Dunboyne and the bridegroom the elder son of Brig.-Gen. and Mrs. T. Rose ...

... First Peacetime Livery Dinner Of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights at the Mansion House Sir Philip Richardson, Bt., Lady Richardson, Mr. Denys Loxvson, the Hon. Mrs. Denys Lowson, who is a daughter of Lord Strathcarron, and Mr. Leslie Marshall Lady Robertson, Sir Frederick Stewart of Craigowrie Castle Dumbartonshire, Lady Duncan, and the Rt. Hon. Sir Andrew Duncan, M.P. for the City of ...