... AT THE PICTUKEJ Marie but no! Bashkirtseff WHAT do I remember about Marie Bashkirtseff? I was ten years old when the Diary was first published, but I was alive to the extraordinary stir it made. Mr. Gladstone gave tongue about it. And I wasn't allowed to read it. I remember somebody writing about her: The world into which this Russian child was born was a world in which wasp-waisted women ...

... Organised for The Solent Classes, the R.A.F. Regatta Provided Sortie Exciting Racing on a Dull Day Bubbly (Mr. II. R. Watt), of the Solent Sunbeam class, and Lieut.- Col. Bull's Duet Winner of the Q class, Mr. H. M. Mann's Lintie, setting the pace in a stiff breeze Mr. N. Moore's Fiona, an entry in the International 6-metre race Peregrine (Mr. C. Taylor) laces the water with her wake, in the ...

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... Lady Marguerite Haywood is the first daughter of the ninth Earl of Darnley, and is married to Wing Commander Gordon Haywood, R.A.F. They live near Gravesend. Their son and daughter, Garath and Lucinda, who are twins, are three years old, and among their godfathers are Group Captain A. B. (*4 Sailor Malun, D.S.O. and Bar, D.F.C. and Bar, one of the war's outstanding fighter pilots and ...

... King Feisal of Iraq congratulates the bride and bridegroom on the occasion of the wedding of his Equerry and tutor Mr. Julian Pitt-Rivers to Miss Pauline Tennanl. On the left is the bridegroom' s mother the Hon. Mrs. E. R. Pitt-Rivers who is a daughter of the late Lord Forster The Hon. Morys and Mrs. Bruce who were married this year. Mr. Bruce is Lord Aberdare's elder son Miss K. Stanley and ...

... D. B. WY1HAI LEWIS HEINRICH HIMMLER'S deathmask is now Exhibit A in the Black Museum at Scot land Yard, and for all the benefit those hawkeyed boys will derive from staring at it (a psychologist assures us) it might as well be Annie Laurie's. Obviously the place for the deathmask of Civilisation's most successful pedagogue is the Black Museum of the Headmasters' Conference, which contains very ...

... Mock Hunf for the Perth Pony Club Members of the Perth Pony Club met recently at Seggieden, the home of Lady Margaret Drummond-Hay, the Duke of Hamilton's younger sister, at Kinfauns, where they took part in a mock hunt. Children on white ponies and dressed in white were the hounds and the fox was a young rider wearing brown, on a bay horse. Jennifer writes on the hunt on page 299 Earl Cadogan ...

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... AT BALMORAL the King is spending most of his time, as he so much enjoys doing in Scotland, out on the moors grouse shooting with one or two of his personal friends who are guests at the Castle, and several of his Deeside neighbours. Though His Majesty is still not quite so exceptional a shot as was his father, he is, according to experts who have shot with him in recent times, a really ...

... THE TATLER GOES TO FRIBITON ON-SEA And Takes Some Pictures of Family Parties Enjoying the Bracing Air of the Essex Coast The Tide's out and it 9s time for shrimping Jane Bundy and her cousin Andy Streeter get some advice from non-shrimpers Sarah Bundy and John Streeter poised perilously on a breakwater Family Parly The Earl of Cotlenham with three of his daughters, Lady Gillian, Lady Davinia ...

... PRISCILLA (0/ Paris) ON THE PLAGE MANY bridges have toppled into the waters since I last made my way to Deauville, and it was with a heavy heart that I set Miss Chrysler's tarnished Mercury mascot in the direction of that famous plage des fleurs. But when one dreads anything badly the reality often turns out to be less painful than one has feared, and one can say, with Samuel Butler, We have ...