... Photograph by Fred Daniels first appeared in this country for a short summer season at the St. James's Theatre with Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt in Caprice in the early I930's. Since then, in spite of his success on the screen and radio on both sides of the Atlantic, he has always had an affection for the English stage, and one great ambition, to appear in a Shaw play. The opportunity came ...

... THE OLIVIERS ENTERTAIN A Gay Function to Start Off the Theatrical Garden-Party 44 Hullo, there Polly Ward, the actress, greets a friend in the mood of the occasion Richard Attenborough, celebrated film and stage actor, conducted a lively auction. Here he is expounding the merits of a U.S. ham Watching the auction was Edana Romney, star of 44 Corridor of Mirrors She comes from South Africa ...

... The xxTatler's Register of ENGAGEMENTS Miss Jean Mary Ogilvie. only daughter of the late Mr. C. S. W. Ogilvie of Delvine Murthly Perthshire and Lady Clifford of Chudleigh La well Chudleigh Devon whose fiance is Mr. Denys Lyoncl Tollemache Oppe only son, o/ Mr. and Mrs. /Vm/ Oppe. of Cheyne Walk. S.W.3 Harlio Miss Mary Coxe (Polly) Miller of Clarendon Street. S.W.I only daughter of Capt. and ...

... Safety Record Did you know that every journey made by a French locomotive is exactly recorded every yard of it on the Flaman apparatus carried in the cab? As the train runs, a mechanical pen draws a chart of its speed and punctuality. So precise is this record that when a signal ahead is at danger, the Flaman records the fact auto matically as it passes the preceding or distant signal. The ...

... THE GREAT L.C.C. CONTROVERSY_THE FIRST MEETING OF THE GOVERNMENT OF LONDON AFTER THE ELECTIONS IN WHICH CONSERVATIVES (WITH 64 MEMBERS) DEAD-HEATED WITH LABOUR AT THE POLLS Presiding is Mr. J. W. Bowen, the Labour nominee for the decisive office, who, after being defeated in Wandsworth Central, was brought in as chairman. The Socialists are seated on the left of the Chamber and the ...

... EASTERTIDE BROUGHT THE CLIMBERS OUT ON LAKELAND HEIGHTS Arthur Black, a Manchester bank clerk, climbing a rocky pinnacle on Windgather Rocks, near Macclesfield, Cheshire, an area very popular with week-end climbers. The North Country abounds in experienced climbers, such as Arthur Black, but at holiday-time a number of tyros try their luck among the mountains, and more often than not the call ...

... *P o-day there are just under 1 ,000,000 Arab refugees within the borders of Palestine, and 26,000 of them are in pitiful plight at the Jericho Refugee Camp, described as a Near Eastern Belsen. The pictures on this page relate to the Arabs of Faluja, who, following the Rhodes Armistice, have elected to live in the Arab-held part of Palestine. The pictures show the transfer from Faluja to ...

... THE REDECORATION OF YORK HOUSE, ST. JAMES'S PALACE, HOME OF THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER Scaffolding has gone up and the house is now having its first exterior coat of paint for over ten years, and rooms which were occupied by a caretaker while the Duke was Governor- General of Australia, are to be redecorated. St. James's Palace came into Royal possession in 1532, when Henry Ytlt ...

... A udley End, a relic of the days when domestic building was on a scale of vast magnificence, is to-day but a fragment of the great house built in the seventeenth century and covering almost five acres. It is a truly remarkable fragment, however, and when the news became known last summer that Audley End had passed into the hands of the nation for preservation as an ancient monument, it was ...

... I n addition to winning the Montana Cup, valued at £50, Mr. John Derry, de Havilland's test pilot, has won a prize of £100, presumably payable in francs, and a fortnight's holiday in Cannes, presumably at the establishment of M. Dissat, the hotelier who put up the Montana Cup. The performance of Mr. Derry's jet machine was watched with great interest by French aeronauts, who, with the aid of ...

... The return of the bright lights to London after an absence of ten years provided a free show which Londoners were not slow to appreciate, and the crowds in the West End during the first week-end in April were quite the biggest seen since the end of the war. The week-end before last, which brought tens of thousands of Scots to Wembley for the International football match, resulted in more big ...

... To-day's Value of Poultry Stock and Appliances Remarkable Prices at the Stanbridge Earls Dispersal Sale THE AUCTION Bidding at the sale, which teas held on two days and at ivhich 1,000 lots were catalogued, was keen, and prices were good. Poultry breeders from all parts of the country attended. The auctioneer was Mr. G. L. Coxall. BROODY COOPS Three in one lot made £4 10s. There was ...