... 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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... THE JESTER (W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM, 1911); by Sir Gerald F. Kelly, R.A. Purchased 1933. I hese are outstanding examples of the art of the Chantrey Collection, now on view at Burlington House a third appears on another page. I he purchases were made almost yearly since 1877, and a visit to the show is a lively trip through seventy years of academic art. By Courtesy of the Tate Gallery. ...

... NOW is the season of the young. Their enthusiasm for enjoyment in these early weeks of the year sets an example of how to take sport seriously without worrying. At Hogmanay the Scottish boys rightly trounced England's boys at Rugby, but now international rivalry is forgotten awhile. Yet the way ahead is clear. Youth, as energetic as ever, is proving more skilful than lie fore, and Britain has ...

... . At the Schoolboys' Exhibition, Horticultural Hall, Westminster the Railway. At the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith the Hogarth Puppets. At Olympia Nikki, the 3-ft.-10-in. clown. At the High Table medals. ...

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... SETTING OUT FOR SANDRING- HAM Prince Charles of Edinburgh, in the arms of his mother, Princess Elizabeth, leaving Buck ingham Palace for Sand- ringham. Driving the big black saloon (H.R.H.I), a wedding present from the R.A.F., was the Duke of Edinburgh, and Princess Margaret sat beside him. On left The Princess waving to the throng out side the Palace. With her was Miss Helen Light- body, who ...

... FOR a fortnight now every newspaper in the country has been allowed to increase its sales as much as possible until the Government decides once again to peg circulation, though this will probably not happen before the start of flat racing. Most daily newspapers have also increased their size by an extra two pages three times a week. Evening papers are entitled to a similar increase in ...

... 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. ...