... MELVILLAINY TOP SECRET British Ambassador's daughter and the First Secretary. Anne Hayes Tom Gill. Sticky contact the First Secretary with the maladroit secretary, Joan Lang, who misreads telegrams, causes clashes. The Ambassador's daughter a casualty of street rioting. L. to r. Frederick Valk, Foreigh Minister Tom Gill, First Secretary Hugh Wakefield, the Ambassador Gordon Davies, British ...

... SKETCH DATE- BOOK Being Our Social Diary.) SEPT. 18.-- Chile's Inde pendence Day was cele brated by a cocktail party llf at the Chilean Emba s>, I and by the Anglo-Chilean Society's luncheon party at the Dorchester. In I picture, I. to r. Mt.v j Vidal, Sehor Geoi Vidal, Lady Willingdc I and Lord Willingdon, am Mme. Bianchi, wife of j the Chilean Ambassadoi J SEPT. 21 and 22.-- The I autumn ...

... by Ray Allister (Deputising for Robert Dane, on holiday.) FOUR important things have hap pened in the tele vision world since the last number of The Sketch appeared. Television stole Radiolympia; colour stole into tele vision; we heard that the Midlands will join the television audience on December 17; and we were encouraged to believe that within five years 80 per cent. of the people of Great ...

... rf New Britain lies in comparative seclusion life, these aboriginal practices have dis- to the east of New Guinea, and sprang appeared and the coconut-plantation into brief fame as one of the Japanese flourishes where once the savage staged bases threatening Australia. It was there, his rituals. off the capital Rabaul, that concentra- To this civilising process the march tions of enemy ...

... i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. The Light in the Tower.-- The great debate is over. The Members have returned to their holiday pre occupations and the nation remains very much in the same condition of uncertainty and doubt. The new dust of election propaganda has settled on the island fog, hardly intensifying it. There were some brilliant speeches, intemperate and sometimes in bad taste, as ...

... THE BRIDE, A CHARMING FIGURE IN A GOWN OF WHITE BROCADE PATTERNED WITH A SILVER DESIGN, LEAVING HER HOME AT MELBURY COURT, KENSINGTON, IN COMPANY WITH HER FATHER, MR. ERWIN STEIN, EN ROUTE TO ST. MARK'S CHURCH, NORTH AUDLEY STREET The bride's long tulle veil was bordered with two rows of old lace given by H.R.H. the Princess Royal. It was held in place with a garland of gardenias. Her double ...

... ^^KTiT* Bi*]iiTJ kv??Hiiyv7n?[*]iB THE INSULANER, A NEW TYPE OF AMPHIBIOUS MOTOR-CAR Herr Munch, a Berlin engineer, has developed this remarkable vehicle which is seen embarking on its initial tests on the Havel Lake, near Pichelsdorf. In these tests the Insulaner is said to have reached a speed of over 40 m.p.h. in the water and over 75 m.p.h. on land. Herr Munch declares that his car is ...

... mmm A VALLEY FROM WHICH ALL CIVILIANS HAVE BEEN EVACUATED This view, taken from the hillside north-west of Steeple, and looking south-west towards Tyneham and Worbarrow Bay, stands in the area of Lulworth Cove and the Purbeck Hills, once regarded as one of the great beauty spots of Southern England. To-day it presents for the most part a sad picture of devastation, owing to its continuing use ...

... rffwrM^B i An appeal in the High Court on July 30, brought by residents of Hemel Hempstead against the Ministry of Town and Country Planning's order for the compulsory purchase of land for the new satellite town, was dismissed by Mr. Justice Morris. Since then the planning of this new town, which together with Harlow, l Crawley and Stevenage, will help to relieve London's congestion, has been ...

... Dizzy heights are climbed daily by structural ironworkers of the U.S. Steel's American Bridge Company in erecting the framework of the United Nations Secretariat building on the East River site, New York. They are setting steel near the top of what will be a thirty-nine-storey-plus penthouse struc ture when completed. To go to work, the seventy-eight bridge- men employed there have to climb ...

... y/\ way in the lovely woods of Tintern, along the Wye Valley, not far from its confluence with the Severn, the Forestry Commission is making use of the soil which is capable of producing good quality hardwoods. This is in some measure an answer to the critics in this country who complain that the cultivation of native hardwoods is being neglected. In the last forester's year about one- ...

... EDINBURGH IS A CITY OF STEPS This flight leads to the top of Castle Hill, and the Castle Esplanade, scene of colourful military ceremonial during the recent Festival, is on the left. Many of the houses on or near Edinburgh's Royal Mile, not all of them ancient, have a mediaeval flavour or else are faintly reminiscent of the romantic German towns THE OLD ASSEMBLY CLOSE LEADS OFF THE HIGH STREET ...