... Given By Maj.-Gen. and Mrs. Laycock Committee Meeting for the Commando Ball A committee meeting was held recently for the Commando Ball which is to take place at the Dorchester on June 12th. Among those present ivere Col. Newman V.C. Mrs. Robert Laycock deputy chairman of the ball Kathleen Marchioness of Ilartington, the chairman and Captain John Birbeck M.C. Major and Mrs. Franks Lt.-Col. ...

... Vapets TELL A AMA.L WAVE IF IT ISN'T A JAMAL VAPET IT ISN'T A JAMAL WAVE Look for the name Jama I on each yellow and silver chequered Vapet and refuse substitutes ONLY JAMALOTIONS MUST BE USED T\ J PI Don't gamble Ucnt accept a fraud Only genuine Jamal are specially prepared for the Jamalotions can provide a real scientifically precise Jamal Wave, giving deep luxuri- jamal process. ous waves ...

... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart Car Parks AVIATION is dependent upon motoring for its terminal communications; motoring is depen dent upon parking space. We are beginning to remember that there is little or no parking space anywhere in the big cities. So the opportunity for the planner occurs. He draws wonderful pictures in which cars are parked by thousands in vertical parks a mile high, or in ...

... AT THE PICTUKET Record Low JAMES AGATE THERE is an old story of a man who, coming out of a London theatre for a drink between the acts, went back and only when, he dived for his hat discovered that he was in the theatre next door. So much for the similarity of your fashionable West End comedies. I remember, to my disgrace, playing the same sort of trick on an old lady at Bognor before the war. ...

... Actor Robert Morley at Home Witl Hi Wife and Small Son Sheridan Father and Son Photographs by Qilbert Adams The Motleys'' Country House near Wargrave The First Gentleman'1'' with one of his Pekes ...

... Their Majesties the King and Queen, (she was wearing a coat and dress in a delicate shade of blue with a tulle hat to match), Princess Margaret, Queen Mary, looking well in grey, King George of the Hellenes, and Prince Philip of Greece were all present at the marriage of Lord and Lady Elphinstone's younger son, the Hon. Andrew Elphinstone, a nephew of the Queen, to the Hon. Mrs. Vicary Gibbs, ...

... 794-6 Their Skirts, Will Be Short A ND whether their choice is a slick tailored Yx summer suiting or a silk print of frills and flounces, there will be one thing common to all practical elegance. Good shoulders, neat waists, skirts 1 8 ins. from the ground will be the general rule, with hats mostly small, comfortable and off- the-face. Not for us yet the ankle-length hobble skirt of the Paris ...

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... A Theatrical Family at Home Manning Whiley and His Wife Wanda Rotha Manning Whiley, the stage and film actor, is married to Wanda Rotha, the attractive Viennese actress, and they have a small son, Simon. Mr. Whiley has just returned from Italy, where he has been playing in the new British film Teheran in which he has one of the principal parts. The film was completed in Rome, and also stars ...

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... (fWl POKTKAITS iilrMiy^ SIMON HARCOURT- SMITH THE persistence of agnosticism in our modern world always startles and fasci nates me. We are suffering incalculable, unnecessary miseries because of our grand fathers' secret belief, for all their vaunted Christianity, that the conception of the human soul was bunkum, that nothing existed save what you could see or feel or touch, that Science had ...