... A SPOKTlN( HALF-CENTURY Some Even wd Personalities MOTORING. In 1905, the first Tourist Trophy Car Race was held in the Isle of Man. Here is the winner, Napier, in an Arrol-Johnston car. His average speed was a really frightening one for those days 33-9 m.p.h. This was the dawn of the motoring era. (8 y courtesy of The Autocar.) FLYING. In May 1910 L. Paulhan, of France, won a Daily Mail ...

... By J. C. Trewin FIFTY years ago, Irving-- though the light had begun to fail-- was still at the Lyceum, known to-day as that dance-hall with the pillared portico at the foot of Wellington Street. Alexander reigned at the St. James's. Wyndham's Theatre had only just been built. To the eye of 1950 the West End theatre list of 1900 has unfamiliar names and many strange gaps. Bernard Shaw had not ...

... THIS is how four painters and a sculptor saw women during the half-century. Our choice is arbitrary in the space available, but the names are among the most distinguished of their times, and in each picture and the sculpture the manner is typical of the artist, and easily recognisable. The pictures were painted round about the years given. 1910. PORTRAIT OF MADAME GAUTREAU bv I. S. Sarsent. R ...

... Photographed by JANET JEVONS. imwM-- ii --in iim inn1 wm ii m in-- TWO Highland families will be united when the Hon. Jean Coats, Lord Glentanar's only child, marries the second son of Lord and Lady Elgin, the Hon. James Bruce, to whom she announced her engagement just before Christmas. From her Norwegian mother, the late Lady Glentanar, Miss Coats inherits her fair beauty, blue eyes, and the ...

... 1I I LADIES FIRST -ir Prizewinning News Pictures of the Year THESE admirable snapshots won prizes last month in a lively British News Pic- tures of the Year com- I petition, the second of its I kind organised by the Encyclo- I pxdia Britannica. Over 200 Press cameramen competed, I and the prizes awarded in- I eluded illuminated diplomas and cheques varying from 1 00 guineas to ten. More thar ...

... THE first child of Mrs. Randolph Churchill, wife of Mr. and Mrs. Winston Churchill's only son, was christened Arabella at St. Peter's, Eaton Square, last month. Arabella is Mr. Winston Churchill's seventh grandchild. Photographed by CECIL BEATON. ...

... STAGE. Peggy Ashcroft For her intensely moving performance of Catherine Sloper in The Heiress, at the Haymarket. She is a gauche, timid girl (in the New York of a century ago), scorned by her widowed father and iilted by a elib wastrel. This year there has been no more touching scene on the London stage than that in which Catherine, in all the flowering of first love, waits on a windy April ...

... WE have chosen these few pictures, representing notable features in sport during the half century, from the National Gallery of British Sports and Pastimes, Hutchinson House, Stratford Place. England is the natural home of sport in art as of sport itself, and for at least 300 years English painters have made this fascinating topic their theme, excelling in its vivid pictorial descrip tion. To ...

... HENRI BERNSTEIN, one of France's leading dramatists, owns his own theatre Le Theatre des Ambassadeurs. He was born in Paris, 1876 has written a vast number of plays beginning in 1900 with Le Marchi. And to mention a few down the fifty years Le Voleur, Le Secret, Le Venin, Le Camp des Tempites. He is very much a turn-of-the-century play wright, who throughout his career has shown a remarkable ...

... NEWSPAPERMEN are gregarious folk, but it is only in London that newspapers have congregated within one street. In the quarter-mile length of Fleet Street one sees the offices of nearly ever newspaper printed in the British Isles as well as the London office of hundreds of overseas journals. Here, almost every second person is sure to be a journalist or in some way connected with the Pres- The ...

... , ubte England St. Ewe, Cornwall WHEN next you take your ways about tbe bills and fields, reflect that it is the labour of man that has given them their final beauty. No traveller two centuries ago could laud the lovely countryside too many were the marshlands and the wastes, too frequent the unkempt, forbidding woods that harboured lawlessness. And do you know aught of survey work or drainage ...

... BON VOYAGE- and BIEN VENUE pRINCESS ELIZABETH is waving farewell to Prince Philip from Tigne Point, Malta, a spot on or around which many hundreds of wives of naval officers have so often congregated to wave good-bye or welcome to their husbands as they leave and return to our Mediterranean naval base. Prince Philip, in H.M.S. Chequers, was leaving the harbour on December 27 bound for the Red ...