... ARTISTIC ELEVATION Chatunni Panicker and Shiva Shankar put in some energetic practice for their performance with Mrinalini Sarabhai's company of Indian dancers at the St. Martin's Theatre. Kathakali dances are being performed for the first time in a West End theatre CHATUNNI PANICKER AND SHIVA SHANKAR DEMONSTRATE DRAMATIC HAND MOVEMENTS The two dancers came to London with Mrinalini Sarabhai's ...

... The fable of the fish and the facts xx There was once a Fish so huge and old and cunning that no-one A said him nay, and so wonderfully ugly that his friends avoided Vv the subject. Great king cried a school of small whales, A saluting as they passed. Tide-breather Stream-snorter Vi Storm-swallower The Fish grinned terribly. Poetry, v, said he, Poetry Now, in plain human prose, what yt am I ...

... 1. THE CHRISTIAN BERGH LOSES HER WAY: In a blinding snowstorm the American tanker, bound for Hoboken from Petraf, Greece, missed New York Harbour and ended up in glonously in less than 2 ft. of water and within 2 ft. of a sea wall at Sea Bright, New Jersey. None of the crew was injured as the grain ship went aground, and before the opportunity was taken to refloat the Christian Bergh at high ...

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... CONAN DOYLE-- There is an enor mous bibliography concerning Conan Doyle and his works. That is natural, for he attained and still preserves an immense success as a teller of stirring tales, and was no mean showman in his lifetime. J. M. Barrie, who affected to shun publicity, got more of it than many a writer who went out openly to get it in the way of business, like Walpole or Caine. Doyle ...

... THE GRAND NATIONAL FIELD TAKES THE FIRST FENCE IN GOOD STYLE AT THE START OF ITS JOURNEY OF NEARLY FOUR AND A HALF MILES Watched by a crowd four deep, most of the runners cleared the first obstacle in good style. Roimond, which came in second, can be seen, in the foreground on the right, with Russian Hero, the eventual winner, a length or two behind. Nearly all the runners crossed Becher's the ...

... THE English Sunday-- for what the words mean to the world at large-- is a legacy of the nineteenth century in particular. The comfort induced by heavy feeding lay at its foundations. Without those meals which reached down to the humblest cottage in the land, the gnawing void could but have stirred people from their proper station, in protest. To-day the case against the English Sunday ...

... AIR-LIFTED TO A NEW HOMELAND Jewish mothers and their children tended by a nurse of the Women's International Zionist Organisa tion as they flew from Aden to Israel in one of the craft of Alaskan Airlines, an American company now carrying out air-lift operations on behalf of the American Joint Distribution Com mittee. The Aden Jews, it may be remembered, suffered terribly in the pogrom of 1947 ...

... A SECOND NEW RUNWAY AT TEGEL AIRPORT, IN THE FRENCH SECTOR OF BERLIN, WILL FURTHER SPEED THE AIRLIFT Bulldozers of the United States Engineers engaged in levelling the ground for a landing-strip which will handle the huge C 97 aircraft which the Americans are going to employ for bringing supplies into the city. The C 97s have a capacity of twenty tons. This extension for the airlift will be ...

... HThe news that the Old Parish Church of St. Marylebone, now used as the parish's chapel, is in a serious state of decay is sad indeed, for it is a place of many remarkable associations. Sheridan was married at the old church in 1773 to Miss Linley, although he had previously gone through a form of marriage with her when escorting her to France, to avoid the persistent atten tions of Major ...

... BORN IN THE BOTTOM OF A BOAT TO A MOTHER WHICH HAD BEEN HOOKED FROM THE ENGLISH CHANNEL-- ONE OF A QUADRUPLET SET OF SPUR-DOG VIVIPAROUS SHARKS Mr. Gordon Baber, a fisherman of Brighton, who had landed the mother shark twelve miles off Shoreham, later took the four offspring to the Brighton Aquarium, where the pictures on this page were taken. It appears that after he had restarted fishing, ...

... CURZON STREET, Mayfair, makes, one think more in terms of luxury flats and social clubs than of big business. And yet in a single room of No. 30, transactions involving £31,000,000 were com pleted last year which in 1949 will probably hit £40,000,000. For this is the clearing house of I.A.T.A., the International Air Transport Association, to which almost all the leading international airlines ...