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... A Scramble For The W ali'i'-iva^oii ACTORS can survive even Hollywood stardom as they prove in the series of remarkable per formances which opened the New Year. After Mr. Peck in Only the Valiant came Miss Hepburn and Mr. Bogart in The African Queen to claim all my Oscars. This week two separate stars shine as drunkards; in Come Fill the Cup (Leicester Square Theatre) here is James Cagney ...

... Jennifer's NEW YORK-- The city was looking incredibly gay when I arrived here by B.O.A.C. airliner, for the Christmas spirit seems to linger happily in the streets for weeks after Twelfth Night. The most picturesque and seasonable sight is probably the open-air skating rink outside Rockefeller Center, a sunken arena which is floodlit at night and where the children who enjoy the opportunity so ...

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... CHRISTMAS and the New Year make such a bright interval in the winter months, when we wear our gayest dresses, that afterwards things seem rather flat with the return to everyday clothes. But from Munro and Company, of Edin burgh, come two delightful patterns of their Morning Haze Tweed, in pastel colours of deep pink and blue-green, just two from the range of nineteen shades of Morning Haze ...

... New Year's Morn THE countryman woke to a day withdrawn in mist and the land veneered by- ice, but with the promise of sun, a day to speed the plough. IN THF HFDGFROWS The Catkins were out on the Nut Hazel, for 1952 promises an early spring. And the Witch Hazel adorned by its strange yellow flowers. Here and there the Christmas Rose was unfolding its pure white petals. While the Fire Thorn ...

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... IN village church and cathedral those who live by the land have been gathering to make their humble plea, so moving in its simplicity Reverend Sir, we desire that you ask God's blessing on the year's labour now begun And the priest, first touching the plough before him, then raises his C hand in supplication and blessing, saying, God speed the plough and may the blessing of God be upon you and ...