... The Royal Solent Yacht Club, founded in 1878, overlooks the Solent east of Yarmouth Harbour. Youngsters number 40 of the membership of 460, the West Wight Scows being very popular with them. Handicap Class races provide sport from May to October for all comers starters ranging from small dinghies to 10-tonners. rictures show: I. I he Club house. 2. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Caulcott. 3. Yarmouth One- ...

... MAN OF STRATFORD: ANTHONY QUAYLE I c Photomontage by Angus McBean ...

... SPORT-THE LONGS AND THE SHORTS OF IT ...

... Selected by our Panel of Experts THEATRE. Dame Sybil Thorndike for the profound emotion of her Lady Randolph in the revival of the old tragedy of Douglas, at the Edinburgh Festival. J C LITERATURE.-- Mr. E. S. Turner for the wit. erudition and sincerity of his shocking history °t social reform, Roads to Ruin. FILMS. Leo Genn a British actor with Old Vic training, who spanks such life out of ...

... Beverley Baxter IT may be that a hundred years from now the then author of will turn up the files of this family journal to see what was occupying our thoughts in the year 1950. There fore, to save him trouble, I shall describe the events and experiences of a recent day as they impressed themselves on my memory. The newspapers carried the story of how a small boy had murdered his brother, how ...

... Her vast popularity demands the new language bruin (forgive us round about the Zoo's charming polar-bear cub brumas, daughter of Mischa and Ivy. Here is some of the wordage. BRUMASSISTED. BRUMASTERN. BRUMASPIRATION. BRUMASLEEP. BRUM ASSAULT. BRUMASSIGNMENT. BRUMASSURANCE. BRUMASTONISHMENT. ...

... GARDENER, POET, AND CHATELAINE: V. SACKVILLE-WEST Photographed by GISELLE FREUND. ...

... IANE BAXTER'S new stage assignment, The Holly and the Ivy at the Lyric, J Hammersmith, gives her the role of eldest daughter of a country parson, played by Herbert Lomas. The plot exploits the emotional storms and complications of Christmas-time on his family and home the character being based upon his own father by the playwright, Wynyard Browne. In private life Miss Baxter is Mrs. Arthur ...

... THE numerous engagements of her Royal Highness have recently included her first official visit to Lancashire, when she opened new premises for the Warrington Boys' Club (see pic ture on left). The Princess was at Aintree for the Grand National, where she is seen (above) with the Duchess of Kent. In the pic ture on the right her Royal High ness smilingly acknowledges the welcome she received at ...

... LONDON'S great teaching centre of the fine arts is the Slade School of Art, University College, founded in 1871. It owes its existence to Felix Slade, wealthy connoisseur of the arts, who died in 1868, leaving £35,000 for the endow ment of professorships at Oxford, Cambridge, and University College, London. Among its most famous inhabitants was the late Professor Henry Tonks, who forsook his ...

... and PREVIEWS /*^ENE TIERNEY will be seen in Night and the City, the 20th Century-Fox u i'?1 which is due *or re,ease this summer. In this drama of London night life she takes the part of a dance hostess at a night club and girl friend of a gangster, played by Richard Widmark. Googie Withers also has an important part as the night club's proprietress. ...

... _ Ill /^L A J1 7 _ Ill /^L hjtiCL-n- J I WHOLESALE COUTURIERS cz^L. (Cotton, C^taantlu 19 GROSVENOR STREET MAYFAIR W I ...