... . 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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... , young and promising film actress from County Down, Northern Ireland her father is senior resident magistrate for Belfast is at present busy working on her first big starring role in No Place for Jennifer, having previously appeared in the films Wanted for Murder, Odd Man Out, Meet A1e at Dawn, Silent Dust and My Brother Jonathan. She will next be seen in the recently finished Now Barabbas, ...

... LADIES RIDE FDD THE WARWICK VASE At the Essex Hunt Point-to-Point at Matching Tye, near Harlow Miss C. J. Pilkington gives Legacy III. an expert run-over before the race Another lady competitor Miss Jill Hooper, walking up the course before an event Mr. A. A. Walton helps Miss M. A. White head to take her gear to the saddling enclosure Mrs. M. Simmons and Miss V. Freer have a word or two ...

... THE ROTAL AERONAUTICAL $0(1 IY CELEBRATES A I.REU EVENT IN ITIj IISTORY Leading Figures in the Government, Civil Aviation and Enpine rino* mbie at a Dinner to Congratulate the Society (founded 1866) on the Granting of its ...

... Sabretache Pictures In The Fire LORD DERBY'S Swallow Tail, who, like Royal Forest, is by Bois Roussel, the dam in this case being Schiaparelli, Royal Forest's mama being Tudor Maid, is probably the best- backed colt in the Derby at the moment, and not being in the habit of stealing anyone's thunder was, I hasten to add, our young friend Mr. Hislop's tip some time ago. Swallow Tail was fourth ...

... Fathers and Sons Foursomes in Progress at West Hill L. G. Crawley, former English champion, driving off. He and his son Simon succumbed to E. M. and C. J. Marshall in the first round under the considerable handicap of 11 strokes Field-Marshal Earl VEavell was another com petitor who, with his son, made an excellent start Major Viscount Keren combined with his father Earl Wavell, to beat J. H. ...