... INTO Gevle, on the romantic Gulf of Bothnia, into Oslo, Copenhagen and Stockholm, recently sailed a ten-ton boat, Wagen, with a grey-haired, sharp featured, deeply tanned holiday-maker, accompanied by an elderly helmsman. It was his first return to the indented coasts for six or seven years, and he warmed gratefully to the sun, to the gently lapping waters, the picturesque birches and firs ...

... Mrs. Birling sublimely unaware that she is to be drawn into the vortex of self -revelation, treats the forthcoming examination by the Inspector very lightly Julien Mitchell Margaret Leighton, Marian Spencer and Ralph Richardson) ...

... One of the most promising of the new generation of film stars, Barbara White first decided to become an actress when, as a little girl, she visited her aunt's school of dramatic art at Southend-on-Sea. Her first important part was that of Miranda in The Tempest at the Stratford-on-Avon Memorial Theatre, but she had her first real chance understudying Glynis Johns in Esther McCracken's Quiet ...

... M.D. LYON, who has just had a new Resident Magistrate's Court opened for him at Nyeri, Kenya Colony, might, with a little more of je ne sais quoi, have been another Jack Hulbert. He had melody, wit the light fantastic in toe, touch, and tongue. But, like most of the too vari ously brilliant, he had a demon of restlessness. He sipped each flower and changed every hour. Nor could he suffer a ...

... The King and Queen recently visited the exhibition of their own pictures from the Royal Palaces probably the greatest private collection in the world at the Royal Academy under ideal conditions of display. The Queen is seen admiring 44 The Adoration of the Shepherds, by Jacopo Bassano, with Tintoretto's 44 Portrait of a Dominican near by. Her companion is Sir Alfred Munnings, R.A., President ...

... PRINGl E OF SCOTLAND onottxer oe cwtiLf CU mere !>j jVmofe Beautiful Hazel Court, of Root of All Evil \and Carnival fame, wearing a lovely Cashmere Set by Pringle of Scotland. LNPIII9 ...

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... The earliest photograph of the future actor ...

... EVERYTHING, nowadays, is either a problem to solve, or a question to consider. And nearly all the problems and questions have to do with matters of war, politics or education. I imagine that the B.B.C. news devotes 99.999 per cent of its time to these three mournful subjects. And among them there has occasionally appeared the question of Royal Air Force strength and the problem of recruiting ...