... THE SOCIETY OF CONSULTING MARINE ENGINEERS DINES IN LONDON Many Eminent R.N. and Shipping Figures were Among the Guests Air Chief-Marshal Sir Frederick Bowhill Master of the Hon. Company of Master Mariners, with Vice- Admiral E Sir Denys Ford, Engineer -in-Chief of the Fleet, at the reception which preceded dinner at the Connaught Rooms Mr. J. E. Church, Lord Howard de Walden, who is an ...

... MARGOT FONTEYN, prima ballerina of the Sadler's Wells ballet, who was educated at Louisville, Kentucky, took the title role in The Sleeping Beauty when the company opened at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, ten days ago. The part had already won her the highest acclaim in London earlier this year. After a month's run in New York the ballet will tour the U.S. and Canada, returning to ...

... ON a recent Saturday, a wedding at His Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London brought the writer to London, when he renewed acquaintance with the Yeomen Warders, those admirable men whom Londoners persist, erroneously, in calling Beefeaters. Theirs is a satisfying life. A Service pension: five guineas a week for their Tower duties; a house or flat within the Tower for ...

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... FAMILY FOURSOMES AT THE RURHILL CLIB Golfers from eleven to eighty-four years of age took part in the popular Family Four somes competition on the Fur hill course at Walton-on-Thames. Chiefly mothers partnered sons, and fathers their daughters, and some very keen matches resulted The winners, Mrs. E. C. Pepper with her son, W. Pepper (Hindhead), who beat Mrs. Ponting and M. J. Ponting ...

... CHAMPIONSHIPS AT A GOLF COURSE IV THE 11.01 IIS Players and Spectators at the Swiss Tournament, Crans-sur-Sierre Prince Nicholas of Rumania, here playing off from the eighteenth tee, teas among the international players who gathered for the matches at this beautiful course, 5 000 ft. above sea-level, overlooking the Swiss Rhone. Watching him is his partner, M. Joseph Charles Vicomtesse de ...

... PARTRIDGE SHOOTING IN NORFOLK A day out with the Guns near Swaffham Mrs. Guy Morton leads the party out into the fields surrounding her home Pickehh'am Park. Some very big bags have been recorded there in the last tiventy years, and on this occasion over 100 brace and several hares were secured Sir Thomas Devitt Bt and Lady Devitt came over for the shoot from Dunmoiv Essex Mr. P. G. Roberts, M ...

... the London born, twenty-seven year old stage and screen actress, made her first appearance at the Embassy Theatre in 1940. Her first important screen role was in the war film, Freedom Radio, of the same year, then came The Gentle Sex, and more recently she appeared in Woman to Woman and Mrs. Fitzherbert. She was trained at the Vacani School of Dancing, and it was a charity performance at the ...

... THE ballroom at the Dorchester was packed with guests who came to the dinner arranged by the Women's Adjustment Board in honour of Mrs. Warren Pearl. They were received by H.H. Princess Marie Louise, beside whom stood the tall Marchioness of Carisbrooke and Mrs. Reynolds-Veitch. The Princess, presiding at the dinner, made an excellent speech, paying tribute to the guest of honour, a great ...