... Beverley Baxter SO telephoning is going to cost us more. Well done, Sir Stafford! I hope that you will hold out against the forces that are trying to make you reverse your decision. What a tyrant the telephone is with its peremp tory ring and its utter lack of tact. It waits until we just get into the bath, and then summons our immediate dripping presence. No one has the strength of mind to ...

... .i PRINCESS ELIZABETH and the Duke of Edinburgh, who is President of the National Playing Fields Association, were guests of honour at the ball held in aid of the Association's Silver Jubilee Campaign at the Dorchester. Other guests were Lady Brabourne, Lady hmel Mountbatten, and Lady Margaret Hay. They danced to Bill Savill's band; there was a tombola with prizes and Jack Train acted as ...

... . HEATHER THATCHER'S background gives some idea of how far she has travelled to entertain the Forces both during the war and since. Last September she pioneered a venture sponsored by the R.A.F. under the aegis of Lord Tedder, and, starring in Little Lambs Eat Ivy, she covered all the air-lift and military bases travelled over 4000 miles, playing to thirty-four units in six weeks of one-night ...

... I . SHE wore an Easter bonnet, Feathers set upon it and flowers, too, and veils, on Easter Day in Hyde Park. For the ideal weather brought fashion out in its finest post-war flowering, and a crowd of many thousands converged on Rotten Row. A light dust hung above, stirred from underfoot the trees were flushed with green there was colour in the flower-beds a feeling of festivity in the sunlit ...

... CHOICE OF THE MONTH Selected by Our Panel of Experts IITFRATURE. Miss Winifred Felce, whose book Apes is uncomfortably full of human interest. 9^-r^ SCREEN. Jos6 Ferrer, whose capital performance of the vacillat ing Dauphin in Joan of Arc stands out from a cast which seems generally resigned to mediocrity. RADIO. Miss Dorothy L. Sayers For her series, The Man Born to be King, which moves ...

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... H.R.H. PRINCE CHARLES AT NINETEEN WEEKS-A NEW PORTRAIT OF THE FAIR-HAIRED, BLUE-EYED INFANT PRINCE, HEIR TO THE DUKEDOM OF EDINBURGH, WHO WAS BORN AT 9 14 P M ON NOVEMBER 14, 1948 When this picture was taken at Buckingham Palace, Prince Charles weighed 16 lb. 2 ois. Princess Elizabeth's first child stands second in succession to the throne, the title to which is regulated by the Act of ...

... i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. The Meat Issue.-- The debate last week on meat gave the Govern ment one of its lowest majorities in the House, although sixty-two is normally an ample enough margin. It was an angry, unpleasant debate, and many a wild or irrelevant charge or jibe was exchanged. From the first opening it was obvious that the b ood Minister and his Private Secretary were uncom ...

... bringing about the signature of the Armistice between Israel and Transjordan, Dr. Bunche, the United Nations mediator, has achieved a diplomatic triumph and has done much to raise the prestige of U.N. in the eyes of the world. Israel made several big concessions, thanks to the reasoning of Dr. Bunche and his colleagues, and the Rhodes conference ended on a note of marked good will. Before this ...

... Rail wnmmmi THE LAUNCH OF THE OSLOFJORD --THE ANIMATED SCENE IN THE AMSTERDAM DOCKYARDS AS THE NEW NORWEGIAN LINER TOOK THE WATER AFTEf BEING LAUNCHED BY CROWN PRINCESS MARTHA OF NORWAY Norway's merchant fleet, so much depleted during the war years by U-boat sinkinj will receive another new addition in 1950, when this 16,000-ton vessel goes into service on the Western Ocean, operating between ...