... 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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... 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 ...