... DLUE-EYED and golden-haired, little Christine Payne of Brighton claims to be Bri rain's youngest magician. Since her aunt took her to see the Regency Magical Society a year ago she has never looked back, and after much practice on domestic audiences she is now, at six years old, the star turn at concerts all over Sussex. Card tricks are her speciality, but because her hands are so small, she ...

... TEACHING BRITONS TO BE .COD -WITHOUT LOSING UNNOTICED among the many changes in this changing post-war Br tain is a new approach to sport. The nation that for generations ook its games lightheartedly, as a change from working hard in commerce, is now finding that success in sport involves hard work. Other coun ries laughed at our sport is just a game attitude and applied themselvt to achieving ...

... The cocktail-party, with Theo Meier, the host, on the left, faced opposite by his wife, Made Pegi, flowery-headed, and their guests, some American, some Balinese, around the table. Later will come the memorable feast, for which elaborate preparations have been made with all sorts of delicacies of the island such as a wonderful turtle sate and roast sucking-pig. lalinese women are very clever ...

... HARLEQUIN SHORTLY before Christmas a new illustrated magazine was launched at Oxford. Its name is Harlequin it is produced, financed, edited, and even distributed, by undergraduates its object is to present the University of Oxford, its history, literature, contemporary thought and way of life to the world. On the lighter side, a publicity stunt was organised by which the first copies of the ...

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... will play the part of Diana in Ring Round the Moon, a comedy adapted by Christopher Fry from T Invitation au Chateau, by Jean Anouilh. Produced by Peter Brook, it is due at the Globe Theatre on January 25. Audrey has appeared in The Relapse and in He Who Gets Slapped. PhotograDhed by ANTHONY BUCKLEY ...

... Beverley Baxter AS January winds towards its close, it is fitting that we should review our New Year reso lutions and find how we are faring in this grim annual struggle with conscience. It is only right that each human being, like a public com pany, should issue an annual balance-sheet and then take decisions to reduce the spiritual losses and increase the gains. Unfortunately that charming ...

... HEATHER STANNARD will appear with Sir Laurence Olivier in Christopher Fry's new modern-verse comedy, Venus Observed, due to open to-night, January 18, at the St. James's Theatre. She has the part of Perpetua, a young girl and the setting is an English country house at the present time. Mr. Fry originally wrote the part for Vivien Leigh, who is, however, busy in A Streetcar Named Desire. Miss ...

... for being the Cockney Danny Kaye. Photographed by CHRIS WARE. LADIES and GentleMEN the familiar opening gambit heard around nine o'clock on Sunday evenings on the Light Programme comes from this tall, burly, tousle-headed young man. Unheard-of less than three years ago, Howerd, after a series of early setbacks, has lately made a spectacular climb to radio fame in Variety Bandbox on a line of ...

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