... m l%rtrmte inn Print THERE is something about a bedside book encountered on a week-end in a country house that gives it a quality hard to define. Perhaps it is the knowledge that you are never likely to meet it again or it may be that the background of an unfamiliar room creeps into the book. I made the acquaintance a week-end ago ol a dusty volume dealing with the intimate home life of the ...

... HER SOCIAL JOURNAL Court Wews: Good news from his doctors brought the New Year in happily for the King. They were able to tell His Majesty, after a further very comprehensive examination, that his progress had been such that he would be able to travel to Sandringham much earlier than they had at first thought possible. Accordingly, arrangements were put in hand for the Court to move to Norfolk ...

... Brig. M. I. Majid, Miss H. Hussey and Mr. Monty Woolley the actor and producer, were among the guests of Mr. S. M. Sayeed, of Karachi, a prominent industrialist, at a dinner he gave recently at the Savoy to promote understanding of Pakistan Mrs. Lucy Ward and Mr. Oliver Woods discuss various aspects of the new Dominion Mrs. Zohra Majid with the Marquess of Queensberry, who was the guest of ...

... OXFORD'S ABLE YOIIG H PRODUCE A QUARTO HAMLET SUCCESSFULLY l\ L(l\llll\ THE Oxford University Players recently presented the First Quarto Hamlet for a week's run at the Rudolph Steiner Hall in London. It was a bold venture and abundantly successful. The production in the hands of Kenneth Tynan (Magdalen) was notable for a flow of original ideas, from the eighteenth-century costume setting to ...

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... Si Ptnrtrmfa im Print Having occasion to review again what overseas visitors most want to see in our little island, I thought of people with whom I have talked during the Winter months. One man, with whom I have great sympathy, confessed that he thought the best thing in London to-day was the parade of the penguins in the Zoo. A charming American radio script writer whom I met in December said ...

... most successful and popular of G.R.s, whose plucky performance in the 1948 Grand National immensely increased his following, returns from the course after winning the Littleworth Ooen Selling HandicaD steeplechase on the second day on Mr. P. V. F. Cazalet's Hill Breeze. The meeting is described by Jennifer on page 431, and tnere is a rurtner series ot pnotographs appearing on pages 422 3. All ...

... The IVobbler Will Always Get Through Sabretache Pictures In The Fire Being certain that most people are by now tired to tears of sitting in the dissecting rocfm in which Grand National form is carved up, I believe that the shorter the final words were the better. In spite of what that Victorian poet said, the form is not always eloquent: but still the best of it is the Aintree sort, provided ...

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... Mr. John William Hext and Miss Elizabeth Priscilla Holrnan, who are to be married shortly. Mr. Hext, is the son of Mr. I C. Iiext of Fraynes House North Molt on Devon and Mrs. Hext of Cowbridge Lostwithiel onrf Miss Holman is the elder daughter oj Mr. and Mrs. Trove Holman. of Chyverton, Truro Cornwall Qcorgc W. F. Fllis Miss Eva McMor rough Kavanagh youngest daughter of Major and Mrs. ...

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... TTbts Englanb St. Ewe, Cornwall WHEN next you take your ways about the hills and fields, reflect that it is the labour of man that has given them their final beauty. No traveller two centuries ago could laud the lovely countryside too many were the marshlands and the wastes, too frequent the unkempt, forbidding woods that harboured lawlessness. And do you know aught of survey work or drainage, ...