... IF reaching the finals at Wimbledon is taken as the sole measure of a country's tennis prowess, this has been a sad year for the British game. The voices which are always raised when Britain strikes a bad patch in sport can be heard asking fretfully What 's wrong The truth is that during the war years our tennis players, like other people, were fighting, working and bringing up families in an ...

... PRISCILLA in PARIS I Party to launch the new book THE Grand Opera House management has revived Joseph, a drame lyrique by Méhul, famous composer of Le Chant du Départ. This opera was created 139 years ago and three years later was given in Vienna at the Imperial Opera, where it has remained in the répertoire ever since. In Paris it was played at the Salle Gamier in 1899 for exactly fourteen ...

... A Diplomatic Wedding in Copenhagen Daughter of the Chilean Minister to Denmark Married The bridegroom (right), Lt. B. E. Taylor, of Detroit, U.S.A., arriving with his best man, Cdr. R. A. Courtney U.S.A. Naval Attache to Denmark Mr. Harold Wessel, brother of the bride, with Princess Ingeborg of Sweden sister of King Christian) and her daughter, Princess Margaretha of Denmark The bride, Miss ...

... GETTING MARRIED The Tatler and Bystander's Review of Weddings Lt.-Col. J. W Nicol, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, of Ballogie, Aberdeen shire, second son of Sir George and Lady Warner, of Sutton Courtenay' House, near Abingdon, Berks., married Miss Diane Neame Finn, eldest daughter of the late Mr. Lewis Finn and of Mrs. Finn, of Lorenden, near Faversham Lt. C. E. Lord R ...

... AT THE PICTUKET JAMES AGATE Shakespeare for the Masses THIS week I propose to discuss the first of a series of films by which Marylebone Film Productions hope to bring Shake speare to the masses. I was horrified, con founded not by the attempt but by the deed. First let me get rid of the popular miscon ception that there is no need to take Shake speare to the masses because the masses lose no ...

... ONE night in September 1898 William Mollison, actor, arrived home late at No. 15, Elm Tree Road, St. John's Wood; went into the room where his five-year-old son, William, was still awake and, tossing his top hat on the bed, exclaimed to his wife: God-- what a failure! Only a few hours before, the curtain had fallen on Mollison, senior, and A uld Lang Syne at the Lyceum Theatre, and a frigid ...

... D. B. WY1HAII LEWIS BLASTING Heligoland-- the late Kaiser's dagger pointed at England's heart-- into a rubble-heap seems such an obvi ously sensible thing for the Navy to do that one is apt to forget that the British politicians who exchanged Heligoland for Zanzibar with Germany in 1890 were covered with adulation and flattery by rich women, and deemed themselves gods. An aged but ...

... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart Downdraught JUNE this year omitted to start flaming at the proper time, and before that there had been danger from frost to fruit crops. So the scheme of Professor A. W. Farrell deserves notice. It is to protect orchards and fruit in general from frost by hovering over them in a helicopter. It seems that there is a strong downdraught from a helicopter rotor, and ...

... SHOULD the proposed form of bread rationing by weight not prove such a saving of wheat as expected, would it not be possible to ration all cereals on a price basis? That is, to follow the meat plan, an allotment of, say, 38. a week per head which could be spent as wished on bread alone, or bread and buns, cake, biscuits, oatmeal or other breakfast foods? This would overcome the fundamental ...

... , as had been anticipated, drew a large number of interested spec tators and 50,000 people had visited the grounds several days before it ended. It was not an agricultural show, but a demonstration of agri culture designed to tell non- farming people the story of life in the countryside and the problems which face those who are concerned with food production. Thirteen breeds of cattle as well ...

... ALTHOUGH entries in many classes at the Lincoln County Show the first since before the war were below the 1939 figures, the standard was generally high, notably so in the classes for Lincoln Reds and Lincoln Longwool sheep. The Show Championship for all cattle went to a Lincoln Red bull. Shire horses had some excellent representatives present, the Championship going to a filly with an unbeaten ...

... FROM OUR PARLIAMENTARY CORRESPONDENT Westminster, Monday, July I. THE debate in the House of Lords on Thursday on the cut in feeding stuffs and the future of agriculture, and its predecessor in the Commons, served the useful secondary purpose of examining the Government's record in their first year of office, for it is just twelve months ago that the country gave them such a decisive majority. ...