... AMONG the variety of classes at the Dublin Show, juvenile riders were given an opportunity to display the talents of the coming generation of horsemen and horsewomen. There was some good riding in the pony classes, and some courageous exhibitions in the jumping events. A young horseman of whom more will undoubtedly be heard was twelve-year-old Master Tommy Taaffe, who won the Children's ...

... By Our Horticultural Correspondent GENERALLY speaking, rose gardens are in poor shape just now-- the inevitable aftermath of six dreary years when rose growing was necessarily a matter of little or no importance. But roses still hold the highest place in the affections of garden lovers. Given the right soil and situation, they provide a generous and lasting floral display in return for little ...

... OVER 2,000 ewes and a large entry of rams were catalogued at the Suffolk Sheep Society's annual show and sale at Ipswich. Messrs. J. R. Keeble and Son's Venning Challenge Cup winner was sold for 420 guineas, and the top thirty-seven ram lambs made an average of £245. Three animals sold at over 400 guineas, eleven at over 300 guineas, eight at over 200 guineas, and fifteen at over 100 guineas. ...

... Lady Sykes is the wife of Sir Richard Sykes, Bart., whom she married in 1942, and is the only daughter of Captain John Francis Grey Gilliat. Her son, Tatton Christopher Mark, will be three years old on Christmas Eve. Sir Richard is the owner of a famous racehorse stud at his beautiful home, Sledmere, in Yorkshire, and has several good horses in training. He is the seventh baronet and succeeded ...

... FEW men in the diplomatic world change with greater ease and speed from idiomatically flaw less, mellifluous, accentless English to Heidelberg German and Sorbonne French (or Leyden Dutch) than the Netherlands Ambassador at St. James's, His Excellency Jonkheer E. Michiels van Verduynen. Strong hands rise to stress a point, and then gently adjust the adjusted tie. The searching, deep-set eyes ...

... THE REGENCY A description of the brilliant epoch which inspired the recent Regency Festival at Brighton THE Regency historically only dates with the last decade of George III., when the Prince of Wales acted as Regent in his place after I8II. But artistically and socially, the period extends from his coming of age to his death as King George IV. Then it was in I830 that the expiring monarch ...

... Lord Allerton, Colonel G. de Chair, O.B.E., M.C., and Sir Alfred Munnings, President of the Royal Academy, were three of the judges Mr. R. L. BrignaU, of Dingley, Market Har- borough who won the Light Weight Hunter Class, talking to Lady Munnings Lt.-Col. C. T. Walwyn, M.C., D.S.O., awards first prize in the juvenile Jumping Event to Miss Pamela Lucas Hollowav, Northampton ...

... GETTING MARRIED The Tatler and Bystander's Review of Weddings Rather eedan Bastian M ajor Lord Rather eedan, T he Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, of Bellehatch Park, Henley-on-Thames, married Miss Ann Pauline Bastian, elder daughter of the late Surg.-Capt. William Bastian, R.N., and of Mrs. L. Bastian, of Queen's Gardens, W. 2, at the Crypt Chapel of the House of Commons ...

... 'The King and Queen, with Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose, are now at Balmoral for the customary August visit to Scotland. They arrived at Ballater Station, in Aberdeenshire, at the end of last week, having made the journey from Buckingham Palace by train overnight. The Royal Party were wel comed by the Marquess and Marchioness of Aberdeen after wards, the King (in Highland dress ...

... BY CAMERA: THE HON. MRS. EDWARD PLEYDELL-BOUVERIE and her son, LORD MONTAGU OF BEAULIEU (right), at the New Forest Agricultural Society's show at Lyndhurst. The ring was decorated with effigies of foxhounds. PRINCESS ALIX OF LUXEMBURG plays the accordion with skill and enthusiasm. She has been on a Scottish holiday with her parents, the Grand Duchess and Prince Felix of Luxemburg. MISS ANN ...

... . THE MARCHIONESS OF LOTHIAN is the wife of the twelfth Marquess. She was Miss Antonella Newland and is the only daughter of the late General Sir Foster Newland K.C.M.G. C.B. and of Mrs. William Carr and a granddaughter of the late General Count Salazar. Married in 1943, she has two children, the Earl of Ancrum, born last year, and Lady Mary Marianella Anne Kerr, who is a year older. She is an ...

... BREATH-TAKING FILM OF BEAUTY AND THE BEAj EAN COCTEAU'S EXQUISITE FAIRY-TALE PICTURE. LA BELLE ET LA BETE, Jean Cocteau's beautiful, sensitive and poetic film version of the classic fairy-tale, Beauty and the Beast, had a brilliant private showing at the Colisee Cinema in Paris, preceded by a garden-party in the grounds of M. Andre Paulwe's palatial building in the Rue la Boetie. The picture, ...