... THIS week-end sees the continuation at Lake Success of the adjourned regular session of the United Nations which failed to finish in Paris last December. To the man in the street the words United Nations generally conjures up images of Russian and American delegates shouting at each other, with sarcastic comments by other delegates and a series of grimaces and grins photographed close-up by ...

... KERENSKY AT AN ANTI-COMMUNIST MEETING IN NEW YORK The former leader of the Russian people, whose short-lived provisional regime preceded the October Revolution staged by Lenin, talking with Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina, (the Russian schoolteacher who leaped from the Russian Consulate last summer), at the rally at Freedom House, New York, held as a counterblast to the Cultural and Scientific ...

... I and 2. FLURRY IN THE CARIBBEAN: Lord Baldwin, Governor of the Leeward Islands, who returned to London earlier in the year to meet the Colonial Secretary, journeyed back to Antigua in the S.S. Barfleur, from Dieppe, and on arrival received a welcome from the islanders that betokens his enormous popularity. As his launch touched the jetty the Governor waved once to the multitudes ashore, and ...

... longleat reopens TO THE PUBLIC. LORD BATH'S magnificent Elizabethan house Longleat, Warminster, Wilts, is again open to visitors. Originally a thirteenth-century small Augustinian priory, in 1541 the property was sold by the King to Sir John Thynne (John o' th' Ynne), who began converting and rebuilding in 1567, and whose descendants hold it to this day. Alterations were made through the ...

... . 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 ...

... J-- J anover Square was built as a fashionable place of residence in 1718. It is now almost entirely commercial. The famous Hanover Square Rooms stood on the site of No. 4. Beau BrummeU's celebrated inquiry concerning the Prince of Wales Sherry, who's your fat friend? is said to have been made at the Hanover Square Rooms, which later were renamed the Queen's Ancient Concert Rooms and used as ...

... CYom the French greyhound tracks come five of the seven greyhounds in M. Baudy's team, and the other two dogs are Spanish. As for Henri, the monkey, he is a cosmopolitan, and greyhounds of any nationality come alike to him, provided they take kindly to his favourite sport of steeplechasing. M. Baudy's act, which came to London this week, after visiting the Provinces, has been put on at the ...

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... YY/ith the end of the spring cne the Home Fleet is to undergo1 significant change in its constitute From now on the accent is to be oiu- craft-carriers. The battleship Du^e York is being withdrawn for a refit, aai her place as flagship of .Admiral S Rhoderick McGrigor will he taken the aircraft-carrier Implacable, whid has been specially fitted out for Admiral and his staff. The fleets of to ...