... . I WE agree entirely with Mr. Alan Melville's melvillainous Film Crisis in our issued March 16. In film studios we have noted time and money treated with a contempt which neither deserves. We now await the sorting-out of the film industry; believing that it contains more intelligence and less co-ordination than most other industries. Part of this lack of liaison extends to the depart, ment ...

... SKETCi I PI ■KilM\l\m a s >i M I Si\\l**H MARCH 24. In picture fffl Col. Smith-Maxwell, Mr. SH Murray-Smith and the SH Hon. Mrs. Hardy at the |H Pytchley Hunt Point-to- SH point at Great Brington, |M Northants. Some thrilling BR racing included the Low- ther Challenge Cup, and |1|^ the Adjacent Ladies' Race. |1| I MARCH 26.-- Mr. and J Mrs. Derek Tangye held Jgg annual party in their 17th ...

... ANGELINA AT last, with the first quarter of the year behind us, we have 1949's first major film. It comes from Italy, where they have a knack, just now, of making pictures that make pictures really seem to matter. The star is Anna Magnani, whom British audiences saw in Open City. The director is Luigi Zampa, who made Vivere in Pace. The script and even with a very small knowledge of ...

... 'T'he Avro 694 Lincoln is virtually a scaled-up version of the Lancaster. In fact, the Lincoln I and II were known originally as the Lancaster IV and V. Now, as a development of the Lincoln, the standard post-war heavy bomber of the R.A.F., comes the Avro 6% Shackleton which closelv resembles the Lincoln II Those with an eye to aircraft identification will be the first to observe, however, ...

... m i TI ffi i icTfwfi WORK BEGINS ON THE REBUILDING OF HISTORIC GRAY'S INN The Hall, built about 1555 to 1560, was badly bombed during the war, and the building gutted. The foundations of the Hall and the seventeenth-century Chapel had to be examined and strengthened before the work of restoration could begin. Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors was produced at Gray's Inn Hall in 1594. The gardens ...

... NEXT week the holiday camping season will be in full swing, though at least one, at Clacton, was open at Easter. I was down there myself acting as Quiz Master and was thus able to study this modern phenomenon at close range. Holiday camps, the proprietors of which are now beginning to call them holiday villages, are self- contained settlements in which the guests' needs are supplied for an all ...

... TROLLOPE'S FIRST NOVEL.-- I am not sure that Anthony Trollope's first novel does not demand closer examina tion and more meticulous study than all the rest of the half-hundred which resulted from his industry. For if it had succeeded as many critics may well consider it should have succeeded it might have directed Trol- lope's future course as a novelist into a different channel and possibly ...

... 'T'he Portland Vase, dating from the third century A.D., was brought from Italy by Sir William Hamilton in 1770. It was acquired by the Portland family in 1786, and in 1810 they deposited it in the British Museum, where thirty-five years later it was shattered by a madman. Patiently built up again by a Mr. Doubleday, its original restoration was considered a masterpiece of its kind. Now it has ...

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... PRINCE CHARLES AT NINETEEN WEEKS The fair-haired, blue-eyed son of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip, seen at Buckingham Palace, where he gave a camera interview. Prince Charles is seen in the other pictures on this page playing with his favourite toy, a rabbit with white and brown ears and green dungarees PRINCE CHARLES GREETS THE PRESS His Royal Highness sits up and plays with his ...

... THE U.S.S. ROANOKE IS JOCKEYED UP THE DELAWARE EN ROUTE TO THE PHILADELPHIA NAVAL YARD The Roanoke, latest light cruiser in the United States Navy, was laid down in May 1945 at the New York Naval Yard. She has a displacement of 14,700 tons, carries twelve 6-in. guns in six turrets, suitable for high- or low-angle fire, and is designed primarily to provide cover for air- craft-carriers. ...

... The snake-charmer likes his public to think that his power of charming cobras, pythons and other reptiles is an occult gift, but there is no evidence to support his claim, and there is a great deal of evidence that the business of snake-charming, often handed down from father to son, is a trick, pure and simple, based on an intimate knowledge of the ways of reptiles. In India, the little ...