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... 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 ...

... DRAMA AT THE WICKET T. P. B. Smith, of Essex, edges one in to the slips and it is well fielded by A. V. Bedser, of Surrey, who appealed for a catch. This picture was taken during the recent game between an England XI and the Rest and it illustrates very clearly the way in which the telephoto lens records in admirable detail what occurs on the pitch although due allowance must be made at the ...

... THE KING ENTERTAINS HIS NORFOLK TENANTRY-- THE VICTORY GARDEN PARTY IN THE GROUNDS OF SANDRING- HAM His Majesty, accompanied by the Queen and one of his oldest tenants, walking across the lawns together with the Princesses. Two thousand five hundred tenants and Sandringham estate employees attended the party and tea was taken in a large marquee set up for the occasion. While in Norfolk the ...

... TELEVISION is unquestionably the new entertainment. It gives one the same thrills as that of the original talkie-- The Singing Fool, in which Al Jolson starred. I say this with assurance because my own 1939 H.M.V. model tele vision set, which originally cost 45 guineas, has now been renovated after six years of disuse, and I am already becoming an addict of viewing. The exciting part of ...

... No measure introduced since the close of the war has caused more misgiving than that of bread rationing, and last week the public uneasiness with regard to the whole question reached its climax when the 1,500 delegates of the National Association of Master Bakers met in London and rejected the scheme by a unanimous vote, afterwards sending six delegates to Mr. Strachey, the Food Minister, to ...

... YOUNG evangelist Michael Foot's leading of an offensive against monopolistic tendencies in the Press appeared to me to be on the impolitic side from the Labour standpoint. Why give ground for the suspicion that there exist Labour leaders who are not averse to ordaining more of a Yes-Press-- British version, of course, yet still in the descent from the Reichskanzellerei and the Kremlin-- when ...

... By Sabretache So far, no owner has been so unfeeling as to name one of his running horses Schehe razade, but an eminent visitor from across the odeans has called one of his colts Sayajirao. At the time of going to press, no bookmaker has been compelled to proclaim his willingness to take 6 to 4 about this distinguished steed, but no one with echoes of Bay Ram rinsing in his ears can view ...