... HE: I think it 's time we gave another party. SHE: I've only one pair of hands, you know. He Maybe, but I thought of giving just cheeses. She Oh, I see. Yes, that 's an idea Brie, Pont l'Eveque, Camem- bert, Monsieur Fromage, Port du Salut, Tome au Marc de Raisin, Roquefort, Habl6, Vacherin, and so on. He Not and so on at all. One 's got to remember that the average price of the cheeses you ...

... FIXTURES FOR YOUR DIARY Hound Trailing is seldom seen in the South of England, but one of the attractions at Edenbridge Show on August J Bank Holiday will be a glimpse of the sport, which is exceedingly popular in the j North of England, Edinburgh International Festival does not take place until August 21 (it continues I till September io), but j accommodation is always a i problem and those ...

... Dairy and Dual- Purpose Champions Triumph of the Ayrshires ANIMALS of outstandingly high quality were again pro duced by the dairy breeds, although a number of the societies had to report that the general standard was some what below that at the Windsor Royal last year, where many had their best ever representation. The British Friesian Society, which now has a membership approaching 13,000, ...

... THE ROYAL SHOW at Nottingham will long remain in my memory. I have attended every Royal since the war but this year I saw it from an angle which, familiar though it would have been to our ancestors, can be experienced by only a lucky few in this age. I refer to the viewpoint of an outside passenger on a coach. Having been invited by Mr. Sandy Watney and his wife to accompany them on their ...

... Fishing and Flapping With Some Thoughts on Inn Conversations By A. W. P. Robertson MID-JULY is a time of much greenness. The crops have scarcely turned, the hayfields are growing again, and the trees and hedges have the heavy, over blown look of high summer. But the Hampshire valleys looked so much greener than the East Anglian scene that I could scarcely believe my eyes, and it was some time ...

... THE finish of the County Cup polo tournament ended with the Polo Cottage team defeating Ratanada by 1 1 goals to 7. Brilliant sunshine attracted a large crowd of spectators to Roehampton. Mr. Sinclair Hill, the Australian player who is a member of the Ratanada team, with his fiancee, Miss Valerie Babacci. Mr. Mike Holden White, whose Polo Cottage team were victors in the County Cup Final, ...

... I fc' I THE CONTINENT AI 10UCH IN LONDON Les Ambassadeurs has a spacious open-air restaurant, and (right) cocktail bar, where our picture shows Mile. Liliane Chauvet, Mr. Victor Pahlen and Miss Carina Helm, of Norway, enjoying a pre-prandial cocktail. Left A quiet corner in the Albemarle Club in Albemarle Street. Miss E. Rees (/eft), Mr. L. Shott, Mr. J. Humphries and Mr. and Mrs. E. S. ...

... Patrice Wymore plays Princess Cristiane of Norse- land in Herbert Wilcox's CinemaScope and Eastman Colour film of King's Rhapsody. Anna Neagle is once again teamed with Errol Flynn, in a cast that also includes Miles Malleson and Martita Hunt. Novelloland, with its hussars and heartbreak, its coloraturas and corn, may yet succeed in being Britain's answer to the Hollywood Musical. The film ...

... THIS is the third successive year of the Tedworth Hunt's Moonlight Steeple chase, which was held at Rainscombe Park, the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Drewry, earlier this month. Riders in the two races wore white night-dresses and the jumps were lit by lanterns. Winners were Miss Perkins on Mrs. Drewry's Jessa mine, and Miss Watts on Mr. Kunkler's Flicker. The only man to get a place was Mr. ...

... THERE was a week of perfect weather for the 42nd Annual Open Tourna ment at the Lawn Tennis Club of Frinton-on-Sea, where the Essex County Championships were played off early this month, and where once again in British tennis history Australia and the U.S.A. carried off many of the top honours. Miss Tessa Ruscoe (Great Britain) with Mr. H. W. Sweeney (U.S.A.) A general view of some of the ...

... by EVELYN SPILSBCM Captain Walker IT is said that you can always tell a sailor by the blue of his eye, or the cut of his jaw, and Captain Walker is no exception to this rule. Whether you meet him in the garden of his lovely Folkestone home, or striding confidently on the bridge of his present command, he is first and foremost a man of the sea. He is over 6 ft. tall, and wind and sun have burnt ...

... CONTRASTS IN CHELSEA-- FENCING IN THE TOWN HALL HOUSEBOATS BY THE RIVER AN INTERNATIONAL FENCING COMPETITION IN LONDON At the Town Hall in Chelsea, two British competitors, C. Perebski and R. Cooperman, are fencing in the International Sabre Competition for the Corbie Memorial Cup. There were fifty-two entrants forty-two from Great Britain, six from Hungary and two each from France and the ...