... The smooth running and complete success of the Victory Parade on June 8 was due in very large measure to General Sir Henry Charles Loyd, IC.C.B., C.B., D.S.O., M.C., whose direction of the extremely complicated and tightly-knit organization has been rewarded by the thanks of the King. General Loyd, who has been G.O.C. London District since 1944, is head of the Brigade of Guards, and in 1945 ...

... A Great Performance Frederick Valk in The Brothers Karamazov Tatler's rarely-given commendation Great Performance goes to Frederick Valk for his playing of the father in The Brothers Karamazov at the Lyric, Hammer smith. He brilliantly interprets one of the least attractive characters in fiction. Valk, who is a Czech, was for many years leading actor at the Kammerspiele Theatre, Munich, ...

... HOUSES OF UtTHlllHBERLAND AO BUCCLEUCH UNITE 10 MARRIAGE JJUGH ALGERNON PERCY, tenth Duke of Northumberland, and Lady Elizabeth Diana Montagu Douglas-Scott, elder daughter of the eighth Duke of Buccleuch and the Duchess of Buccleuch, were married at Westminster Abbey in the presence of Their Majesties the King and Queen and other members of the Royal Family The wedding is described on the two ...

... THE KINGMAKER-- IEDIE AL PAGEANTRY AT ST. JAMES'S THEATRE COSTUMES ARE OUTSTANDING TOHN CLEMENTS, with Associated Artists, has opened a repertory season at the St. James's with The Kingmaker by Margaret Luce, in which he himself appears as the ambitious but fated Warwick. Though a period play, The Kingmaker is entirely modern in con ception, from the lack of rhetoric in its dialogue to its ...

... 2^ D. B. Wyndham Lewis HEAVY rain on the floodlit gardens of Hampton Court the other night partly spoiled that Government party to Dominion visitors, or so the Fleet Street boys averred. Yet Art might have triumphed over Nature had some skilful pianist played the guests Jardins sous la Pluie, or even Jeux d'Eau. Debussy probably wrote Jardins in a country- house where everybody else was ...

... PICTURES II THE FIRE By Sabretache Qui Meruit Ferat EVERYONE, both in his own and the sister Services, as well as anyone outside them who can see as far as the tip of his own nose, is agreed that no honour has been harder or better earned than the one His Majesty has conferred upon the Supreme Commander S.E.A.C. No one has had a much rougher war than Lord Louis Mountbatten. Before he went to S ...

... ON WITH THE BANCE Jean Loriiner's Page A slim-fitting bolero jacket transforms the dancing dress on the right into a formal dinner gown Harrods call this dance frock Anne. It was designed originally as a bridesmaid's frock but has proved itself equally popular for dancing. It can be made to order in white organdie and in a number of soft pastel colourings Classical lines slimly define the ...

... In this picture, taken at the round table at the Luxembourg Palace, Mr. Bevin, Britain's Foreign Minister, is seen on the extreme left. Beyond him. and reading in a clockwise direction, are Mr. Vyshinsky (Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister), Mr. Molotov, Mr. Pavlov (a Russian interpreter), Mr. Gusev (the Soviet Ambassador to Britain), Mr. James Dunn (United States), Senator Connally (Chairman of ...

... 'Phe meeting of Arab Kings and rulers at the Inshass Palace, near Cairo, where they were entertained by King Farouk of Egypt, was an historic occasion of the deepest international significance. During the conference, which lasted two days, the rulers of Egypt, Saudi-Arabia, the Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Trans- jordan and the Yemen sought to establish a common policy with regard to affairs in the ...

... . H.M. THE KING started the Polytechnic Harriers' Marathon Race from Windsor Castle to Chis- wick Stadium, a course of some 26 miles, which was won by H. S. Oliver of Reading. MISS PATRICIA VALERIE HENNESSY, daughter of Sir Patrick and Lady Hennessy, The Cottage, Stondon Massey, married MAJOR ANTHONY DEREK VALENTINE HOUGH, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hough, of Folyats, Ongar, at St. Nicholas ...

... ROYAL ASCOT ONCE MORE AFTER SEVEN YEARS: The Royal Procession on the Tuesday THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING and QUEEN arriving in a Royal landau, with VISCOUNT LASCELLES and THE DUKE OF BEAUFORT, Master of the Horse. Right MR. G. D. KHAKI ROBERTS, K.C., who has just returned from Nuremberg, I arriving at Ascot on the first day. I MRS. HAROLD GRENFELL, THE MARCHIONESS TOWNSHEND and THE MARQUESS ...

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO-- THESE STARS 0F THE GEORGEbEDWARDESIAN era' for breaking into the limelight again with a fresh appeal. Above, I. to r. RUBY MILLER (Mrs. Max Darewski) EVA MOORE (Mrs. H. Y. Esmond) GRACE PALOTTA MAGGIE MAY (Mrs. Chapman) LILY ELSIE (Mrs. Ian Bullough) ROSIE BOOTE (Rose, Marchioness of Headfort) EDNA MAY (Mrs. Oscar Lewisohn) CLARA EVELYN (Mrs. Julian Day DENISE ORME ...