... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... . EARLY this month the Duke and Duchess of Windsor came to England to spend Easter with Lord Dudley at Ednam Lodge, Sunningdale. His Royal Highness came over first and spent several days with Queen Mary at Marlborough House and our photograph shows him meeting the Duchess at Victoria Station, preparatory to going down to Sunning dale. They left Cap d'Antibes in March to supervise the ...