... . 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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... S0^s SOW* As Britain's pre-eminent Sports- ground Specialists Sunleys have the experience, the plant and the organisation to provide as always grounds for congratulation. Whatever your problem the con struction or renovation of Playing Fields, Tennis Courts, Bowling Greens, Garden Surrounds or the erection of Pavilions and Grandstands Call in Sunleys Head Office Sunleys Island, Great West ...

... F^avid H. Fiscus, father of Kathy Fiscus, had just returned from a journey to Sacramento, State capital of California, when he learned that his daughter had fallen down the well-shaft. His journey had been made to seek State legislation to render the abandoned shafts safe by cementing them. The first faint cries of the child were heard at 6.30 p.m. on April 8. It was not until 52 hours later ...

... ROBBERS of cathedrals who have been multi plying their raids recently, are advised to get in touch with the National Fine Arts Adminis tration, which will indicate to them the real value of precious articles. Otherwise, they should be accompanied by an expert on their clandestine visits to the vestries. the Administration lurtner recommends tnat robbers going after the few relics or treasures ...

... ^.EASING THE RANGE AND USEFULNESS OF THE NAVAL BLIMP IN ANTI-SUBMARINE WARFARE A blimp descending to the flight-deck of the United States escort ci. :er Sicily during recent naval exercises in the Caribbean in which it was demonstrated that the blimp's range and usefulness could be vastly K- increased. The blimp descended twice daily to take on fresh combat crews and to refuel. As the blimp ...

... PUNNING THE RESTORATION OF A PANEL Mr. Richard Buck, Conservator of the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University and a leading authority on the restoration of paintings and the conservation of wood panels, demonstrates a chart showing the extent to which a picture can be cut and scraped to Mr. N. S. Bromelle, of the National Gallery restoration staff. Microscopic examinations are made before the ...