... PORTRAITS '>lf Wiy MWr SIMON HARCOURT- SMITH t_! Bread and Greatness HOW precious, how engaging a quality is candour among statesmen! For years our Press and our Ministers have contorted themselves to avoid saying one word that might hurt the susceptibilities of the American people. The result has been an American suspicion that we were soft- soaping them, and puzzled British resentment ...

... The King of the Hellenes attended the wedding of Mr. George FitzRoy Seymour, younger son of Mr. Richard and Lady Victoria Seymour, to the Hon. Rosemary Scott-Ellis, youngest daughter of Lord and Lady Howard de Walden at St. Margaret's, Westminster, recently. The Rev. Lord Byron, uncle of the bridegroom, and Canon A. C. Don officiated. The bride was given away by her father, and four pages, ...

... D. B. Wyndham Lewis A BRACE of healthy, sensible-looking High land dancing-wenches practising what the ballet boys call the coupé engaged this bloodshot eye for a moment in a picture-paper, inevitably recalling an eminent and witty High landman's recent remark on Highland Games in general. Halliday Sutherland speaking, in Hebridean Journey: Apart from the competitors, the only people who ...

... was at the Ministry of Agriculture at a time when enormous difficulties con fronted farming, but in spite of this his projects were successful. After this he held an important post at the Air Ministry, where his abilities and capacity for hard work again furthered his reputation. Now, Mr. Shinwelfs Coal Board have appointed him as their vice-chairman, and they must be con sidered fortunate to ...

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... Our beloved Queen-Mother was among the members of the Royal Family who attended the wedding of the Hon. Andrew Elphinstone to the Hon. Mrs. Vicary Gibbs, lady-in-waiting to Princess Elizabeth. Her Majesty celebrated her seventy-ninth birthday on Sunday, May 26, of this year, and during the day she visited the King and Queen, accompanied hy the Princess Royal, Princess Alice Countess of Athlone ...

... PRIME FRANZ JOSEPH II., RULER OF LIECHTENSTEIN The Tatler Visits These are the first pictures to be taken by a British photographer of Liechtenstein's ruling Prince, at his ancestral seat, the Castle of Vaduz, since his accession in 1938 HIDDEN away in the heart of Europe there is Liechtenstein, a fairy-tale kingdom ruled by a prince, who lives in a castle high up in the mountains, overlooking ...

... Attends the Coming-Out Party Given for His Goddaughter, the Hon. Karis Mond Mr. Winston Churchill and Viscountess Melchett Miss Mary Churchill and Mr. J. D. Smuts, son of Field- Marshal Smuts Field-Marshal Smutsf the Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa The Hon. Julian Mond and his sister the Hon. Karis Mond for whom the party was given Lady Gloria Fisher, wife of Mr. Nigel Fisher, with ...

... Film Premiere of The Years Between Mr. Niqel Tangye and his film-star wife Ann Todd who is to start a new Sydney Box film in the Isle of Shye this month Mr. David Kidd and Flora Robson, who is playing one of the principal parts in the film Miss Callahany Stewart Granger and Eric Portman who is starring in the new British film 44 Wanted For Murder ...

... PRISCILLA in PARIS Promises, and Threats AFTER six hectic days I left the Farm-on-the- Island looking almost like its old self. Various corps de métier had attended to rusty hinges, broken doors, burst pipes, sagging shutters and sun-blistered paint. While the ladies of the pail and scrub-brush swept and scoured, I took on the job of doctoring some 700 odd (very odd, some of them!) books in ...

... ONE of the greatest social events of any season is Ascot. This year Ascot will return to some of its pre-war glory. There is once again to be a Royal Enclosure, with flower-beds and well-kept lawns (there has been no Enclosure for any of the race- meetings held here during and since the war). The entrée to the Royal Enclosure is, of course, limited and as much sought after as in the old days ...

... GETTING MARRIED The Tatler and Bystander's Review of Weddings Maxwell Sim Major Clyde Fairbanks Maxwell nephew of Lady McMillan of Nairobi, married Miss Janet Elizabeth. Sim, daughter of Mr. William Sim, of Wadhursf, Sussex, formerly of Mombasa, at St. Mark's, North Audley Street Wheeler Hallett Major Anthony Wheeler, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Wheeler, of Marden, Kent, married Sq/O. Joan ...