... 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 ...

... (Being Our Social Diary.) DEC. I. At long last Philadelphia Story reaches London, at the Duchess Theatre gives Margaret Leighton her first top-starring part. A decorative audience greeted the d6bu t. Left to right Lady Tarbat, Miss Sonya Laurence, Mrs. Charles Sweeny, Sir Anthony Weldon. DEC. 2.-- At Field House, Grimsby, the Brocklesby Hunt Ball. From top left Mr. E. Cuthbert- Scawby, Miss P. ...

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO AND WE APPLAUD A/ /SS Jeanette Altwegg, of Liverpool, retained her title when she win the British Women's Skating Championship for the third year n succession, with a scintillating exhibition of free skating at tlie Empress Hall, Earls Court, on December 9. THE inhabitants of Cole Green may well be proud of Ploughmen W. Cutts, winner of the Hertfordshire County Horse ...

... Cyril and Bernard for the excellence of their circus, maintained in the highest tradition of the sawdust ring. ONCE more Mills' Circus thrills the youngsters at Olympia with clowns, acrobats, horses, sealions and the rest of the brilliant equipment. It was started in 1920 the result of a bet between the late Mr. Bertram Mills and a peer as they watched another circus. If I couldn't put on a ...

... TELEVISION OUR first duty on this auspicious occasion is to resist the temptation-- felt by all writers on television at this time of the year-- to wish all our readers a Happy View Year. Our second duty is to welcome into the fold the great mass of Midlanders who are now not only able to hear the, witticisms of Mr. Terry Thomas, but also to see the teeth between which these are made. The ...

... THE MODES ANDMOTHERS wealthy. The new mode for the very brief Chemise dress, worn on a flattened, boyish figure, was so simple that much fabric and labour was saved during difficult years. Girls rejected their chaperones, owned their own latch-key and showed their knees. The restless decade of new careers for women, changing fortunes, was dominated by the stocking. Beige stockings ousted black ...