... The two daughters of Lord and Lady Louis Mounthatten PATRICIA aged twenty -two, lately demobilised from the W.R.N.S., and PAMELA aged seventeen, accompanied their father and mother to the Mansion House recently, when Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander S.E.A.C., received the Freedom of the City and a token of the coveted Sword of Honour, which itself is still in the hands ...

... ETON v. HARROW AT LORD'S AGAIN E TEAMS BROUGHT THEIR FAMILIES. Brilliant printed crepe- A de Chines, vivid A ostrich feathered, flowered and veiled head-dresses were paraded on the green last week when after a seven- years' lapse the Eton v. Harrow cricket match came into its own again at Lord's. There [Continued opposite. LORD and LADY SCAR- BROUGH went to see the match with the LADIES MARY, ...

... BACK TO GLYNDEBOURNE THE SOCIAL SIDE. In the most glittering stretch of high summer we have had for years Mr. John Christie's Glyndebourne opera house reopened with British opera Benjamin Britten's 44 Rape of Lucrelia. With thirsty expectation opera-lovers in full evening dress crowded down to Lewes strolled among the flowers and trees of the lovely grounds during intervals and after dinner. ...

... At the Mermaid Of all the old London taverns which have dis appeared none is so well known and honoured as the Mermaid. Although no trace of it re mains and even its very site is disputed some say it was in Bread St/eet and some in Friday Street it will always be remembered as the meeting place of those mighty wits of the Elizabethan age. Raleigh, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare and others were ...

... PLAYBOY PLAYWRIGHT NEVER GROWS OLD: GEORGE BERNARD SHAW IS NINETY. TN two days* time, July 26, 1946, MR. GEORGE^ brated by the publication of a volume of essays* great dramatist's life and work. Tbis satirical Social George Carr Shaw, who, says 44 Encyclopaedia Britann^' what in England would have been called the middkj literary life in London in the 1890's, and started hfl political work was ...

... FRUIT, FLOWERS AM) FEATHERS VT Ov more severity, no more austerity these are the guiding principles of the new hats designed by members of the Associated Millinery Designers of London, shown at the Saville Theatre recently and now being distributed throughout the big stores in London and the provinces. Flowers, fruit, feathers, veiling all are lavishly made use of for one purpose to emphasise ...

... Constable's masterpiece Stratford Mill teas bought nt Christie's for 41,000 guineas by Mr. Walter Hutchinson, publisher, whose ambition is to found a National Gallery of British Sports and Pastimes. The picture will belong to the nation contains angling detail. Brazilian author -playwright PASCHOAL CARLOS MAGI I was presented with a bust of himself at a party given 19 the Baroness Pongrdcz at ...

... GLYNDEBOURNE REOPENS REHEARSAL VIEW. In the opera Tarquinius (FRANK ROGIER) causes the death of Lucretia (NANCY I EVANS). Off-stage they share a cup of coffee.^M W Lucretia' s friend (LESLIE DUFF) hoivs down I in sorrow while Collalinus (NORMAN I WALKER) sustains her in her death agony. W In conference (I. to r.) conductor REGINALD GOODALL composer BENJAMIN 1 E BRITTEN stage manager RUDOLF ...

... Clarks of Street have retailers in nearly every town. Please choose from the styles you find available a Roxanne Austerity regulations are gone styles can be toeless, open- backed. This new shoe comes from Clarks, l smart black gabardine with a comfortable platform sole and wedge heel some plain, some trimmed as illustration. I J Ct $?r-e.aiJx ^QcvTa Lovely new lines lavish draping in a heavy ...

... . Television s new announcer actress GILLIAN WEBB took over the coveted job last week from Jasmine Bligh, who resigned. Miss Webb is twenty, tall and slim fair-haired, brown-eyed has all the self-possession and poise which is required from television announcers who have to face all sorts of unexpected emergencies and talk their way out of them. While a student at the Royal Aeademy of Dramatic ...

... - MRS. CLARE BOOTHE LUCE, for a timely conversion. American Congresswoman, author playwright CLARE BOOTHE LUCE likes us a little bit after all. Strongly supporting the U.S. loan to Britain during the debate in the House of Representatives, she said Any stranger watching this debate would think u e were considering granting a loan to a treacherous enemy we had recently defeated rather than our ...

... HOME OF A SCULPTC- -CLARE SHERIDAN AT BRE[f LACE. T) REDE PLACE, Sussex, lovely Tudor home A MRS. CLARE SHERIDAN, sculptor, author, J traveller, is one of the show places in the county. j| is set in a hollow, has beautiful ancient gardens, a. legend has it that an underground passage leads frjiL the house to the church, the greater part of a m stunt. Here Mrs. Sheridan carves portrait-heads ...