... AUSTIN MELFORD, CYRIL SMITH, DORIS ROGERS, LUPINO LANE. ME AND MY GIRL (Winter Garden). Free-and-easy, go-as-you- pleasy. Back to the Lambeth Walk, with Lupino Lane and the old routine. JOHN BYRON, CAROL MARSH. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (Mercury).-- The Beast is a mediaeval Prince Beauty is an Early Victorian maiden. Nicholas Stuart Gray's variation on the old tale has grace and invention, and it ...

... FOR the second year running some fifteen British schoo have sent pupils for organised winter-sports t Switzerland, and, despite the devaluation of the a cost very little above that of last year. Organise by Lunn's, working in co-operation with Swiss Hote Association, the boys and girls are thoroughly enjoyin their holidays, and are having expert tuition in ski-in| Many who went last year have ...

... 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 ...

... (From the current exhibition of Dutch Pictures at the Royal Academy.) A SURGEON BANDAGING A PATIENT'S FOOT by Isaac Koedyck. In past centuries, Dutch painters have been chiefly famous for their interiors in fact like a Dutch interior has become a common simile for meticulous, if crowded, detail and, apart from the many notable portraits and landscapes, the current exhibition at Burlington ...

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... THE annual Purley Ball, now becoming known as London's Fashion Ball, was held at Grosvenor House on November 20. In aid of the Purley Schools, which undertake the entire education of orphans and dependants of employees in the fashion trade, this Ball gathers to gether the wives and daughters of British Dress Designers, with many of the women leaders of the Fashion World. The result is ...

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... 0>li&abeilians ClJiwacle 7 J or k l^ssenililv QJ\OOYVIS The Assembly Rooms in York were the scene of one of the most colourful Balls in the history of the city, when the York Elizabethan Society held its Coronation Ball there on June 3rd. Guests and members of the Society, which is the only one of its kind and was formed only last year, arrived in the costumes of the Elizabethan period, and ...