... . OBSERVATION, imagination and wit are clearly shown in these draw ings by children under eight years of age, all of which gained prizes in the Royal Drawing Society's 54th Exhibition of Children's Drawings and Paintings at the Guildhall. Each year the point of achievement seems to grow younger, and huge enthusiasm goes to the work many hundreds of entries being received. THE DERBY, by seven ...

... SUN IN THE STERLING [AREA- BERMUDA. Travel and Cost. ON holiday in the sterling area the currency problem doesn't exist; you can transfer as much sterling you wish to Bermuda. Bank of England notes are not legil tender, but the Bermuda Government issues currency note based on sterling. United Kingdom coins, however, are used the Colony. Valid passports are required. There is no Income Tax or ...

... . THESE delightful new pictures of the baby son of T.R.H. Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh show him to be a sturdy and most attractive child. To-morrow, April 14, Prince Charles of Edinburgh will be just five months old. Photographed by BARON. ...

... . ON Saturday next, April 16, the 1949 Shakespeare Festival will open at Stratford-upon-Avon with Macbeth, produced by Anthony Quayle. It should be a brilliant season with a team of producers and designers whose names are famous in the contemporary theatre. Six plays will be produced by Tyrone Guthrie, John Gielgud, Michael Benthall, Godfrey Tearle and the Director, Anthony Quayle. Leading ...

... B HAMLET UNLIMITED. IN connaction with the Shakespeare Festival at Stratford-upon-Avon, the coming anniversary of William Shakespeare's birthday on April 23 causes us to reflect that had he been living still he would have been 385 years old would still find his plays a top-ranking box-office draw, especially through the medium of the screen. Not too bad for a playwright. Hamlet especially is ...

... CHOICE OF THE MONTH Selected by Our Panel of Experts SCREEN. Anna Magnani A magnifi cent performer from Italy, who raises the whole estate of film-acting with her work as the housewives' leader in Angelina. c/h RADIO. John Snagge For conducting the Boat Race with infectious enthusiasm. STAGE. Paul Scofield For mak ing London talk of Alexander in Terence Rattigan's play at the St. James's. J ...

... 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 ...

... First-Prize winner. Class 10 (Gold Medal) also Best of the Show. Novelty shot of Rhonda Fleming by Ernest R. Bachrach, RKO Radio. ...

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO AND WE APPLAUD A/fR- HARRY LLEWELLYN, of Abergavenny, riding Foxhunter, recently IVL won for Britain the prize for the Men's Division of the International Horse Show in Paris. He is seen receiving the Perrier Cup from Mme. Alexandre Joel. Mr. Llewellyn, our leading show-jumping rider, was a mem ber of the British team which was third in the Olympic Prix des Nations show ...