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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 ...

... 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 ...

... THE Indonesian dancers, who are at present on tour after a short but successful London season, come from Sumatra, Java, Bali and the Celebes. Their dances are similar except for the Balinese, which follow the Indian style, and the Javanese, in which no facial expression is permitted, or is replaced by masks. The music is played with instruments in which the violin, cello and tom-tom ...

... LADY ELIZABETH FORTESCUE, DAUGHTER OF LORD LIEUTENANT OF DEVONSHIRE, WEDDED TO CAPTAIN WILLIAM BAXENDALE LADY ELIZABETH Fortescue made a beauti ful bride in a shimmering dress of white and silver brocade (writes Jennifer) as she walked up the aisle of St. Margaret's, Westminster, on the arm of her father, Earl Fortescue (who is Captain of His Majesty's Bodyguard of Gentlemen-at-Arms and Lord- ...

... i). ii. mmm lewis WHAT discoveries that brain-specialist who has been bemoaning the loss of Hitler's skull hoped to transmit to Posterity we wouldn't know. It is a common enough type of noggin. Dozens of Hitlers brush past one in Piccadilly any day, we guess. All they lack is Hitler's opportunity. Far more valuable for Posterity's purposes would be the skull of the great Goya, stolen ...

... Ann Todtl, who is to make Fourteen British Films Ann Todd, who gave such a brilliant performance in the film The Seventh Veil has now a seven-year contract to make fourteen pictures. She is to make eight of these for Mr. J. Arthur Rank, and six for Sydney Box, who was her producer in The Seventh Veil. She starts working for Sydney Box in Daybreak, with Eric Portman as her co-star, while later ...

... George Bernard Shaw ivill be ninety on July 26. Age has put no brake on the mind or spirit of Britain's foremost original thinker and dramatist the man whom Professor Gilbert Murray describes as above all a lover of ideas. His wit and his writing are timeless. Asked recently what a suitable retiring age would be, he replied Three hundred.' If such a wealth of years could be reached by any ...