... SANDRINGHAM FOR CHRISTMAS The King, happily so much improved in health, plans to spend Christmas with the Royal family at Sandringham, where this photograph was taken just before his illness From there his Majesty will deliver his customary Christmas broadcast ...

... mi D i t So 66 yr s>s> C AlS.0 Christmas. CHRISTMAS is coming. There are some fine folks in the world who will sneer at it. They will tell you that times have changed, that Christmas is played out, and that the so-called least brings us nothing better ...

... CHRISTMAS IS COMING Pictures of Preparat 0111 Parts of Britain, in London, and in Other and in New York A GIFT TO ST. PAUL'S FROM THE QUEEN Members of the staff of London's Cathedral are decorating the Christmas tree which stands inside the West Door ...

... Christmas Sidelights LILAC TIME AT CHRISTMAS TIME: Derek Oldham, Helen Gilliland, Maurice D'Oisly, and W. H. Berry enjoy a little carol singing during an interval between rehearsals of Lilac Time at the Alhambra. This is only the second occasion that ...

... The Christmas Tree TO the grown-ups who put all their love into the decoration and to the happy children with their Christmas-trees, we send our good wishes with these pre-Christmas pictures. They show some of the 20,000 trees which have been sent to ...

... The Business of Christmas By THE SPHERE INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT IT is fashionable, every few years, to complain that Christmas has become too commercialised; but few of the people complaining stop buying Christmas presents or sending greeting cards ...

... Christmas symbolism l\Jeldn^ty There is double the pleasure in Vat 69, for this most amiable Scotch captures the mood of Christmas and spreads goodwill at all times. ...

... K Christmas It double! The look on children's faces, the fairy lights and tinselled trees, tl family reunions, the food, the presents Christmas is a speci time matched by special issues of The Illustrated. London Net and Holly Leaves. These two sumptuous ...

... CHRISTMAS NUMBER THE CHRISTMAS NUM BER of The Tatler, which is now available, brings to the forthcoming festival season an entrancing con tribution of urbane humour and gaiety, and glowing colour. Appetites whetted by Philip Gough's cover depicting an ...

... CHRISTMAS AT THE CAPE. Christmas at the Cape is a season of picnicking and merry-making. When we poor mortals in cold and foggy England are gathered about the bright fireside, our brothers and sisters in Cape Colony are enjoying themselves in the open ...

... difficulty, the Christmas spirit makes us tolerant, either of the vagaries of the weather or of those of other drivers. Deep snow which baulked our progress would simply cause rejoicing in the fact that at last we had a real, old-fashioned Christmas. A Serious ...

... Christmas Tahletalk Latest table accessories to stimulate dinner party chatter at Christmas. First, talking-point, the tablecloth scarlet Italian cotton (91 inches by 63 inches), has borders of massed fruit. Plus six table napkins, 9 gns. at Wooliands ...