... patting Trustful, the pony ridden by his sister, Princess Alexandra, in the Children's Horse Show and Gymkhana at Iver village on Easter Monday. The awards were presented by the Duchess of Kent, who was able to hand her daughter a second-prize rosette for her riding in one of the classes. The Duke, who is at Eton, was fourteen last year, and Princess Alexandra is a year younger. Their brother, ...

... Racing Enthusiasts Gather tor the Reopening of Newbury Enclosures were Crowded for the Inaugural Two-Day Meeting at this Popular Coursi Star King (T. Burn up) returning from the course after winning the important Greenham Stakes L). L. Jones on Big Wig smiles broadly after winning the Spring Maiden Stakes Col. and the Hon. Mrs. James Junes and the Hon. Mrs. David Bethcll discuss the running ...

... HER SOCIAL JOURNAL Court IRewe: Both the Presentation Parties at Buckingham Palace next month will be attended by the King, according to present indications from Windsor, where His Majesty is making progress towards recovery. Though the Royal doctors are somewhat reluctant to commit themselves, there is every reason to believe, too, that the King will be able to take part in the open-carriage ...

... ^Prisci/Cdcc in. Stars at the Midnight Circus There have been eighteen other such galas yet every year it seems more wonderful AT a marionette show one day, I saw a tiny child throw her arms round her mother's neck in order to drag her closer to the edge of the dress circle where they sat, ecstatically crying as she did so: Oh! Look! Look! Look! The other night, at the annual Fête de l'Union ...

... PART! FOR THE El ARM! AIR FORCE On the Occasion of Their Headquarters Moving from Bushy Park to Ruislip Lt. D. J. S. Ashley, R.N., one of the many Services guests, and his wife leave the dance floor to seek refreshment Mrs. S. L. Simpson dancing with General Leon Johnson. The party was held at the Simpson Services Club Col. J. H. lsbell Col. B. L. Riggs and Mrs. Riggs discuss the problems of ...

... , F. J. Goodman whose biography of his great-grandfather, The Life and Times of Coventry Patmore (Constable; 15s.), has just been published, has an extensive knowledge of the Middle East, where he was a newspaper correspondent for some years. Author, playwright and translator, his work includes The Star and the Crescent, poems from the Turkish, and books on Greece and Rumania. His next volume, ...

... THEY WERE MARRIED The Tatler's Review M illigan Adlard The wedding took place at Tilford, Surrey, between Mn Thomas Edgar M illigan, .son of the late Rev. and Mrs. G. Milligan, of Comity Cavan, Ireland, and Miss Susan Amy Horsfall Adlard, daughter of Col. and Mrs. Leonard S. Adlard, of Bishton, Farnham, Surrey E. C. Griffith H ex t Holman Mr. John William Hext son of Mr. A. C. Hext of ...

... 181 , LONDON, We announce the opening i of our ne w Furniture Galleries on the Fourth Floor. ij'ORTNDMm^ MASON jpT 181 , W.I. REGent 8040 ...

... tan frtrata nm Frimt Beiii^ the lucubrations of your molt obedient {cribe, Mr. Gordon Beckles I NEVER thought of Hammersmith Broadway in terms of either beauty or wonderment, nor that my eyes would ever be ravished at the sight of it. Yet, by one of those whimsies which make life the richer in fun, it was at this normally unlovely spot that I first saw, and gaped at, the returned lights of ...

... 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 ...