... . Lady Isabel Millcs-Lade, youngest sister of the fourth Earl Sondes, is engaged to Lord Derby, who succeeded his famous grandfather this year. Lady Isabel is tall, with a fair complexion and dark hair shares her fiance's love of racing. In 1942 she and her sisters were granted the rank of Earl's daughters, which would have been theirs had their father, Mr. Henry Augustus Milles-Lade, ...

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... YOU'D hardly class wool-gathering among the more active forms of occupation. But champion wool-gatherer Hazel Neal makes it clear that it's manual labour. With electric clippers she can shear a sheep in five or six minutes; forty or more sheep a day. Against all comers in the Warwickshire Young Farmers' Club Open Com petitions Hazel got a first in 1946, a third in 1947 and a first again this ...

... ALMOST in a whisper, for such a bold assertion would seem to tempt the gods, I suggest that I have found in London a film that everyone will love-- a film so human, so gay, so fresh, so tender, that nobody can come away from it without a lightening of the heart. It comes from Italy, and is called Quattro Passi Fra Le Nuvole Four Steps in the Clouds. Unlike the other fine Italian films we ...

... Selected by Miss Sketch's Team of Experts LITERATURE. Lilian Bowes Lyon 44 For the beauty of nature and the quiet depths of feeling revealed in her collected poems. SPORT. W. R. Johnstoney the Australian-born jockey 44 For the brilliant way in which he rode My Love to victory in the Derby and followed it with a sur prise win on Bey in the £3500 Prix du Jockey Club the French Derby over one ...

... AT SADLER'S WELLS- GILBERT AND SULLIVAN. Fresh from New York successes, the D'Oyly Carte Company returned to Sadler's Wells on Monday, June 7, for an eight-weeks* season of the Gilbert and Sullivan Operas. G. and S. fans will remember last autumn's series of six Sunday broad casts on the lives and partnership of the globally-famous pair their collaboration, their rows, and subsequent parting, ...

... Only a few days after his seventy-eighth birthday the swing of the pendulum lost Field-Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts his seat of Standerton which he held for twenty- four years, and the South African Premiership, which he has held without a break since 1939 and from 1919-24. To the vision, the wisdom and leadership of this fine soldier-statesman-philosopher our one-time enemy we owe much. He ...

... TELEVISION PARADE These people are included in the opposite page JULIAN SOMERS PATRICK MACNEE PATRICK TROUGHTON JOHN BYRON SEBASTIAN SHAW MARGARET RAWLINGS MURIAL PAVLOW ARTHUR WONTNER JAY LAURIER HAY PETRIE WILLIAM DEVLIN RODERICK LOVELL MICHAEL CABORN VIVIENNE BENNETT DAVID MARKHAM MARIAN SPENCER IRMGARD SPOLIANSKY JACK LIVESEY BASIL COLEMAN ROSALIE CRUTCHLEY WILLOUGHB Y GRAY JOHN SLATER ...

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... -ffiocA BEVERLEY BAXTER. FEW men there are who do not suffer from limitations in some form of human en deavour. Therefore I must confess that when it comes to figures and mathematical detail. I definitely suffer from a split mind. For example, when I have ten-shilling mixed doubles on the favourites at Hurst Park, I know in a flash that I have lost £7 xos. But when some conscientious firm ...

... . For many years Miss Vacani's Annual Dancing Matinees have been an institution between 1922 and 1936 alone they produced over £16,658, which was divided between various hospitals. On June 30 her little pupils will be on their toes again for the Invalid Children's Aid Association Diamond Jubiiee Fair at Central Hall, Westminster. And here are some of the talented children who may be seen there ...