... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD Patricia Dainton has the part of Grete in the film of Ivor Novello's classic, The Dancing Years, due to be shown in London in earl/ spring. In it she co-stars with Dennis Price and Gislle Preville this is her first big role. ...