... 2 SUEDE LEATHER JACKETS IN A VAST RANGE OF DELIGHTFUL COLOURS FROM 14 GNsJ 435-7 OXFORD STREET, LONDON, W i ...

... ISS TESSA MURRAY PRAIN is one of the prettiest of the Scottish debutantes to be presented to the Queen at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh on July 3. Her parents, Mr. J. Murray Prain, who is a member of the Queen's Bodyguard in Scotland, and Mrs. Murray Prain, are giving a dance for Tessa on August 29 at their home in Newburgh, Fife she will share it with Miss Ann Carrington Smith. ...

... WHEN the Annual Conference of Women Conservatives was held in London recently, there were several private parties given for mem bers of Conservative organisations and Commonwealth visitors LUNCHEON FOR COMMONWEALTH VISITORS Miss Pansy Lim from Singa pore, with one of her host esses, Miss Joan Vickers, MP for Devonport Miss Edith Pitt, MP, the joint hostess, with Mrs. Sri Hari, the wife of the ...

... WHAT'S ALL THE HURRY by STEPHEN WATTS A CANADIAN in Paris recently telephoned his London tailor and asked if he could have a fitting in the afternoon. Which day? asked the tailor. Today, of course, said the customer. He then had lunch, drove to Le Bourget, flew to London, took a taxi from the airport, kept it waiting at the tailor's, and was back in Paris by apéritif time. Maybe 1 am a ...

... SPORT IN THE COMING SEASON continued SINCE there is no favourite for the Men's Singles Championship at Wimbledon this year, because the holder, Lew Hoad, has joined the Professional ranks, the seeding committee will have an even more difficult problem than usual. The order in which they place the eight men can make more difference to the ultimate winner of the Championship than one would think ...

... ALTHOUGH the season is well on its way, the Open Championships on both sides of the Atlantic have yet to be decided. rirst to t ulsa, Oklahoma, lor the la e- well appearance in the American Open of the world's greatest golfer, Ben Hog n. After the San Francisco Open, Hogan t >ld me that with four successes to his crei it, his greatest ambition was to win the JS National five times. Twice this ...

... ENGLAND starts the season's series at Edgbaston tomorrow (June 5) with her crown worn quite jauntily. Not since 1950-51 have we lost a Test series and, all things being equal (which they rarely are in these days of odd pitches), we should not be beaten by New Zealand, whose last innings against us realised twenty-six. This is not to belittle our most welcome visitors, but to emphasise the turn ...

... by DENTS VAL BAKER Once a typical Cornish fishing port, St. Eves has become an ever-growing artists' colony. Now, disused fisher men's lofts are keenly sought and converted into studios, and visitors flock there, as much to see the artists and their work as to enjoy the natural beauty of Cornwall IT'S a long time since a St. Ives carrier, abusing a recalcitrant horse, exclaimed, as if it were ...

... SUMMER SEASCAPE SUA DRENCHED Left Shirt and shorts in fine red and white striped cotton are made by Rima Casuals. The shirt is cut exactly like a man's, but with the useful addition of two slanting pockets, and the well-cut shorts are really brief. From Miss Pat Boutique, Kensington Church Street, W.8, and Florence Wood, Leeds, this outfit costs about £6 12s 6d complete PUMA CASUALS Below ...

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... LONDON is enjoying a number of artistic events of first importance, chief among them the Winter Exhibition at the Royal Academy, The Age of Louis XIV, which opened recently. It is a wonderful survey of French art from the early 17th to the early 18th century. The French describe this period of their art as Le Grand Siècle, and its importance is well demonstrated by more than three hundred ...

... THE Suffolk County branch of the Victoria League held their Golden Jubilee Ball at Hintlesham Hall, Suffolk a magni ficent mansion with a Georgian front and one side Tudor. The Hall be longs to Mr. A. S. Stokes, and is now famous as the setting for the Hintlesham Festival of Drama and Music, held in the Garden Theatre, with its Orches tra Plunge-Bath Pit Seeing-in the New Year from the ...