... . 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 ...

... , For hitching his stardom to a dictatorship. SOME talk of Alexander and some of Paul Scofield. Bouquets had already come his way for his work at Stratford-upon-Avon, but the imaginative understanding with which he plays Alexander the Great in Adventure Story at the St. James's brought him to the top in a night. Echoes of Olivier are caught in his manner, and his treatment of the part is both ...

... . IT seems hardly credible yet it 's true that in order to strut and fret their hour upon the stage each of these players must spentf three solid hours in preliminary make-up. The elaborate camouflage is effected by the art and infinite skill of many brilliant backroom boys and girls who blush unseen in the stars' dressing-rooms. Shivashanker and Chatunni Panicker into the Lord Krishna and ...

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... PARIS this Spring has produced few fashion surprises. The basic silhouette is narrow, with floating panels, asymmetrical draperies, apronlike overskirts and a multiplicity of jackets, giving an illusion of width to the natural form. At the same time there are more simple wearable clothes than ever before. Typical examples are (left) Paquin's black after noon gown with a pointed shoulder-line, ...

... yftte&icC' to Summer Prepare to face the summer sunlight knowing that your skin and com plexion have a flower petal texture and the pearly translucence of an ivory 1 miniature. At 's salon in Berkeley Square individually it devised treatments are given for every type of skin. Plastic Treatment resculptures a drooping contour. Oxylation Treatment brings new lightness and brightness to dull, ...

... WHITBREAD IN ENGLISH HISTORY conversation expressed a wish to see these l$P£V*a]W among the things for himself. One Satur- \mFJ population of day morning he duly arrived sb London in 1787 with his Queen and three a favourite topic was the little Princesses and spent wondrous new mechanical two hours going over the devices installed in Brewery. When the crowd Mr. Whitbread's Brewery in which ...

... 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 ...