... Houston Rogers South African-born is not only well known as an actor, but his name will always be associated with the founding of an original and extremely successful theatrical enterprise, the Players' Theatre, through which many successful young actors and producers have had their initial chance. founded the Players' Theatre with Peter Ridgeway in Covent Garden in 1937, and was its ...

... Mr. Scrope and Mr. Jack Clayton who were talking to the Duke of Norfolk (right) Lord WiUoughby de Broke and Mr. Jack Leach, the trainer Major H. Fleming and Mr. R. J. Colling Captain Cecil Boyd-Rochfort going through the catalogue with Mr. Bellamy Colonel and Mrs. Corcott, of the Abberly Stud, Worcester ...

... Fashion Page by Winifred Lewis At Christmas, there can be no question about it, the right age is under ten, when Miss Two-year-old steps out delicate as a butterfly in shell- pink organdie, hand embroidered (from Treasure Cot Company), and Miss Eight-year-old goes revelling in lime-green heavy pure silk, deeply smocked in colour. From Jaeger Shops Photographs by Joy smith ...

... Game Warden-- talking ABOUT ANIMALS JIMMY, the huge Tibetan yak, has been in the London Zoo man and boy for the past fourteen years. In spite of his huge size he is an amiable old gentleman and takes his slow, ponderous constitutional round his enclosure every day. Like most of the animals in the Zoo, he is an inveterate cadger for tit-bits. His method of obtaining an apple or piece of cake ...

... I NGRID BERGMAN is now appearing 'in the Broadway play Joan of Lorraine by Maxwell Anderson. The story has a modern angle, and this fine actress portrays St. Joan in a play within a play. She is here seen wearing her long silk robe, decorated with the fleurs-de-lis of France, in the scene in which she pledges her weapons of war to God after her great victories against the English. It is a ...

... t, I AM always being taken for an Australian, but I am London bred and born, and proud of it. My work has taken me all over the world, but I always longed to get home to the one and only London. I worked a great deal in Australia, of course, and have loved it. I have grand friends there, hey are a very kindly people, and if they like ju they make a great fuss. My husband is New Zealander, and ...

... A West-Country Occasion The Cotswold Hunt Ball at Cheltenham Captain and Mrs. Colville, Major A. A. Sidney Villar, the Misses Wilson, Joint-Masters of the Cotswold Mrs. Reynolds and Major Reynolds Lady Sibell Rowley, sister of Earl Beauchamp, with Lord St. Aldwyn Mr. Mews, Major Peter Herbert, the well-known G.R., Captain Colville and Mrs. Colville Miss Eleanor Allen, Captain P. F. Barry, Miss ...

... I have often thought, says Sir Roger, it happens very well that Christmas should fall out in the Middle of Winter ...

... Game Warden-- talking ABOUT ANIMALS BEARS are one of the most popular wild animals, but never make a pet of one is a maxim of all keepers who wish to live to a ripe old age. Unfortunately, behind a sumptu ous coat and an expression of benign piousness lies an invisible menace, which becomes more obtrusive with advancing years. Practically every zoo in the world can record instances of bears ...

... Singing in La Boheme Daria Bayan who takes the role of Mimi in the New London Opera Company's production at I the Cambridge Theatre I was born in Leningrad and brought up in China. She went to school in Switzer land and came to London before the war to study singing under Dino Bor- gioli. Mimi is her first leading role in grand opera. The Cambridge run of La Boheme which started on June 12, ...

... Engaged to be Married: The Hon. Felicity Way ell Yevonde The Hon. Felicity Anne Wavell is the second of Field Marshal Viscount and Viscountess Wavell's three daughters, and her engagement to Captain Peter Maitland Longmore, M.C., has recently been announced. Her fiance is the youngest son of Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore and Lady Longmore of Pipits Hill, Wentworth, Surrey. Miss Wavell ...

... Newman Noggs Bernard Miles tells Nicholas Nickleby Derek Bond the history of Smike ...