... Lady Charles is the attractive wife of Sir Noel Charles, the third baronet, who was British Ambassador in Rome from 1944 to 1947, and previously Ambassador in Brazil from 1941 to 1944, going there from Lisbon, where he was Minister. This photograph, taken last summer in the new British Embassy in Rome, shows Lady Charles with her Belgian sheepdog, Siegfried A Carell, Rome ...

... H.E. DON FERNANDO BERCKEMEYER, 5he Per.vian Ambassador, at his residence in Porchester Terrace, W. He came to London in 1946 and both he and Senora Berckemeyer are popular members of the diplomatic corps and enter largely into the social life of the capital. Senor Berckemeyer is sitting in front of a Gobelin tapestry of 1790 showing the floraand faunaof Peru Swach ...

... r> After a long absence Jessie Matthews returns to the West End stage shortly in Maid to Measure, produced by Leigh Stafford. The show gives her every opportunity to demonstrate once again that versatility which made her famous. Her name has been in the top rank of stars of musical comedy ever since she appeared in the chorus of Chariot's Revue, in which she subsequently understudied Gertrude ...

... TWO new naval per sonalities make their appearance this year in the Royal entourage. One is Lt.-Cdr. George Gos selin Marten, D.S.C., whom His Majesty has appointed as a Tem porary Equerry in place of Lt.-Cdr. Peter Ashmore, M.V.O., D.S.C., who becomes an Extra Equerry on returning to his general naval duties; and the other is Lt. Michael Parker, chosen by the Duke of Edinburgh to be First ...

... Mrs. Richards, Capt. Richards Miss Bray, Major Bray and Col. Jackson at the dance, which was held at the Cavalry Barracks, Hounslow Middlesex Also among the large and happy gathering were Major Broivn, Jun. Cdr. Thomas, A.T.S., Mrs. Brown, Miss Ellison, Capt. Gardner and Major Ives Lt.-Col. Grimshaw, V.C., and Major Ives discuss the experiences of two wars Lt.-Gen. Sir Evelyn and Lady Barker. ...

... THE WINTER SPORTS SEASON GETS 1ER WAY Scenes from St. Morifz, where Britain is chiefly represented by a handful of Olympic competitors Mrs. He at on- Manning, of Neiv York, takes a long view from the terrace of the Palace Hotel H.H. Prince Pahlavi of Iran spending a holi day in the Alps after three years at Harvard Mr. R. A. Parke, President of the Corviglia Club, and Mrs. Parke in front of ...

... By Harry J. Greenwall IN out of the way corners of our austerity newspapers, it was an nounced to an unconcerned world that 1947 was the Centenary of the Republic of Liberia. Ho-hum, yawned the world, and so what? Well, it all depends are you perhaps interested in the emancipation of the Negro? If so, then Liberia, 37,000 square miles on the west coast of Africa, is your laboratory, where ...

... By Ferdinand Tuohy SALVAGE work on war wrecks around the coasts of Britain has been given a fillip by the introduction of new methods for the recovery of cargoes and scrap, by the enhanced value of these at a time of acute shortage, and, not least, by the gambling bug that permeates the present day. The attrac tion exerted by sunken riches has never lapsed; the call to adven tures to men and ...

... Vanished Folk The Unsolved Riddle of Dartmoor By C. Fox Smith THERE are two outstanding qualities about the scenery of Dartmoor which cannot fail to impress themselves on those, more particularly, who leave behind the main roads with their buses and chars-à-bancs, and follow the rough trackways which lead aside to the moor's remoter fastnesses. One is its solitude; the other the ever-present ...

... I THR rack: With navy wool and No. 12 needles cast on 110 sts. Rib 4 rows, k. 1, p. 1. Work 4 ins. stocking st. Con tinue in stocking st., dec. 1 st. each end of the next and every 4th row following until 100 sts. Change to No. 10 needles and continue on these 100 sts. until work measures 7 ins. from the cast-on edge. Now work in the following stripes. Change to white wool (with a knit row), ...

... SHORTHORN breeders have every reason to feel encouraged by the interest shown by overseas representatives at the two-day Perth sales. They were present in larger numbers than ever before and more than £70,000 of the total of £123,000 spent was paid for export animals, Argentina alone buying over 40.of the bulls on the first day. Other beasts will go to Canada and several to the United States. ...

... THE Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries in a speech at Reading on February 14 covered most of the special problems before the country to-day. But, while announcing the new grant for farmers plough ing up grassland more than three years old, and also stressing the need for more cereals and potatoes, Mr. Williams provided no information on the vexed question of how the two objects could be ...