... Beverley Baxter SO telephoning is going to cost us more. Well done, Sir Stafford! I hope that you will hold out against the forces that are trying to make you reverse your decision. What a tyrant the telephone is with its peremp tory ring and its utter lack of tact. It waits until we just get into the bath, and then summons our immediate dripping presence. No one has the strength of mind to ...

... .i PRINCESS ELIZABETH and the Duke of Edinburgh, who is President of the National Playing Fields Association, were guests of honour at the ball held in aid of the Association's Silver Jubilee Campaign at the Dorchester. Other guests were Lady Brabourne, Lady hmel Mountbatten, and Lady Margaret Hay. They danced to Bill Savill's band; there was a tombola with prizes and Jack Train acted as ...

... . HEATHER THATCHER'S background gives some idea of how far she has travelled to entertain the Forces both during the war and since. Last September she pioneered a venture sponsored by the R.A.F. under the aegis of Lord Tedder, and, starring in Little Lambs Eat Ivy, she covered all the air-lift and military bases travelled over 4000 miles, playing to thirty-four units in six weeks of one-night ...

... I . SHE wore an Easter bonnet, Feathers set upon it and flowers, too, and veils, on Easter Day in Hyde Park. For the ideal weather brought fashion out in its finest post-war flowering, and a crowd of many thousands converged on Rotten Row. A light dust hung above, stirred from underfoot the trees were flushed with green there was colour in the flower-beds a feeling of festivity in the sunlit ...

... CHOICE OF THE MONTH Selected by Our Panel of Experts IITFRATURE. Miss Winifred Felce, whose book Apes is uncomfortably full of human interest. 9^-r^ SCREEN. Jos6 Ferrer, whose capital performance of the vacillat ing Dauphin in Joan of Arc stands out from a cast which seems generally resigned to mediocrity. RADIO. Miss Dorothy L. Sayers For her series, The Man Born to be King, which moves ...

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... THE PYRENEES from the Cote Basque to the Cote Vermeille on the Mediterranean offer all the year round holiday enjoyment under a southern sun. For further details apply to any Travel Agent or to the French National Tourist Office, 179, Piccadilly, London, W.l v J o^v vAfr |}j|=j=|j== Modern medical science ...

... . A NEW screen role for Margaret Lockwood is that of a girl who, losing her sight, seeks sanctuary in a convent and the film, Madness of the Heart, is an adaptation of Flora Sandstrom's successful novel. Miss Lockwood is now touring in Noel Coward's Private Lives. ...

... . MONTACUTE, one of an increasing number of England's great houses which have passed from the hands of their original owners into the care of the National Trust and are open to the public, is one of her finest Elizabethan mansions. It was built between 1588 and 1601 by Sir Edward Phelips, successful lawyer and Speaker of the House of Commons. It is essentially extravagant-domestic the grand ...

... LET'S GC RACING I REFERENCES to the uncertainties of racing are no longer con- fined to forecasting the first three horses past the post. Racing covers many fields-- in every sense To go racing used to mean, almost automatically, a day at Ascot or Goodwood or Sandown Park, ot any of a dozen famous courses where horses galloped and bookmakers! shouted and the crowds cheered, I But as horses ...

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO.., AND WE APPLAUD rHE three Poile sisters aged twenty-one, seventeen and thirteen years-- H all horsewomen since the age of four, have a long line of successes behind H them, and last season won over 120 prices for jumping. Recently they all three I took prizes at the West Kent Pony Club Hunter Trials at Heverham, Kemsing, I Kent Susan on Freddie, Barbara on Madam, and ...