... , seen in her third-act costume in the title-role of the Cinderella ballet at Covent Garden, was born r in Scotland. She went as a child with her parents to Rhodesia, and it was there that she took the first steps in the ballet training that have led her so far. At the age of thirteen, back again in Britain, she was enrolled as a pupil at Sadler's Wells. A few weeks later, on the outbreak of ...

... The Joint-Master whips and huntsman looking over the hounds before the meet at Old Dolby Hall. Left to right, Jack Nichols (whip), George Barker (huntsman), Major the Hon. R. Strutt (Joint-Master) and Edward Hill (whip) Mrs. Blount, who was hostess, holding the bridle of Miss Jean Buxton's horse The youngest rider, four-year-old Anne Young, sits her pony with great confidence Sarah, Priscilla ...

... At one of the tables in the Officers' Mess at Northwood, Middlesex, where, this very successful dance took place, were S/Ldr. and Mrs. Hewitt, W/Cdr. and Mrs. Thewles, WJCdr. and Mrs. McClan, F/0. Hamilton, Mrs. Crawford and FJO. Stuart Harris Air Marshal Sir Hugh Saunders, Air Member for Personnel, with Mrs. Dawson, a U.S. guest Mrs. Bryant, W/Cdr, Bryant, Mrs. Lewis and S/Ldr. Lewis enjoy ...

... Bernard IVeatherUf) it I fur. bltnr #/ioh Wintvv Wind If there is any comfort to be derived from the chill blasts of winter it is that they provide ample excuse for acquiring a Bernard Weatherill overcoat. We have some really excellent materials to offer. To browse *1 through them quietly is to reach back into the days of pre-war standards an im pression that is heightened when fty? we tell ...

... A Day Out in the New Forest The year's first meet of the New Forest Buckhounds coincides with the well- attended point-to-point of the local Pony and Cattle Breeders' Association Mr. George Witherby husband of the Secretary of the New Forest Buckhounds talking to the Master. Mr. H. J. Colebrook. before the field moved o(f from the meet near Lyndhurst Stirring finish of the Small Commoners Race ...

... Pictures lu the Fire Sabretache THIS New Year has already brought us one or two new ideas which may, or may not, materialise. One of them is reindeer meat to relieve the sameness of the things which we are compelled to eat. This seems all very fair and reasonable, provided always that they do not pick this venison too soon after Father Christmas has turned it out to grass, for, if they do, it ...

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... hm PtDrtrato ii Print A FEW years ago there lived a popular novelist who used to excite the envy-- even the bewilderment-- of Mr. Arnold Bennett, among many other of his contem poraries. He was a quiet sort of man, as I remember him now, and of sober mien: but he drank. I start in the morning and I keep on drinking until I get to bed, always have and always will, he would say modestly. ...

... THE H.A.C. GIVES A MICE AT ARIHOUBY HOUSE pROBABLY the oldest military formation in the world, the Honourable Artillery Company, recently opened the doors of its H.Q., Armoury House, Finsbury Square, to 500 guests at the annual ball. All ranks brought along their friends to this very gay and friendly affair Capt. and Mrs. C. E. Sugden have a cheerful word with Major and Mrs. A. W. Powell in ...

... The Committee of the Royal Gloucester Hussars'' ball at the Bingham Hall Sgt. J. Loveday, Miss Audrey Baker Mr. G. Huck Earl Bathurst Capt. J. Talbot (behind), Mrs. W. A. Chester-Master Staff-Sgt. F. T. Coleman, Col. W. A. Chester-Master, and Mrs. Braxton Lord and Lady Oaksey, who came over from their home at Malmesbury, dancing together Lady Apsley, mother of Earl Bathurst, talking to Mr. ...

... Mrs. Pat Cosier, from Oxford, reaches the summit of a Pontresina nursery slope Resting after a hard climb Mrs. Cabrielle Style, the golfer, with Mr. Alexander Keiller past president of the Ski Club of Great Britain Miss Ella Raines, the American film actress, with her husband, Major Robin Olds, of the U.S. A. A. F. now stationed at Tangmere, Sussex On the way to the ski-ing school at ...

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