... Plays and fii MS of TO-DAY Evergreen Seymour Hicks: Twelfth Night in Regent's Park: The Pur suit of Happiness-- a Slight but Amusing Play at the Vaudeville By PHILIP PAGE ONLY THE CONSULTATION of irrefut able reference books could convince anyone that Mr. Seymour Hicks is over sixty; he is young, not only in appearance, but in soul. But being a supremely honest person he is putting all his ...

... A NIGHT IN JUNE A Sphere Photographer in Mayfair and Theatreland Above and inset AT THE DORCHESTER The cool night air lures many from the gaily-lit ballroom, and Park Lane provides a setting for a pageant of fashion A CINEMA IN MAYFAIR The entrance to the Curzon Cinema becomes a riot of colour as the dresses of its fashionable patrons are bathed in golden light INTERVAL AT COVENT GARDEN Above ...

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... Seven Days oi The Sugar Conference Meets in London L I-- J I QT jD Battersea Disaster SirGeorge Clerk BidsGood- I I I 1^^. I bye lo Paris Queen Mary Visits the Abbey RUSHING TO THE RESCUE: Police climbing up a ladder to the bridge where the Southern Railway disaster took Place on the morning of April 2, when ten persons lost their lives and dozens were injured as the 7.31 a.m. electric train ...

... ALFIERI THE ITALIAN GOEBBELS Signor Mussolini's Minister of Press and Propaganda GETTING ACQUAINTED: Signor Dino Alfieri, the Italian Press and Propaganda Minister, with native women and children in Libya during Mussolini's recent tour of Italy's North African possessions. Signor Alfieri. who succeeded Count Ciano in this post on the latter's becoming Minister for Foreign Affairs, has been ...

... An Examination of the Presi dent's Dominating Position and How He Has Built it Up The Flight from Republicanism, for Three-quarters of a Century the Political Faith of the Union A waggish senator, speaking in defence of President Roosevelt's attack on the U.S. Supreme Court, said recently that, whereas William Jennings Bryan, because of his position on free silver, will go down in history as ...

... THE UNWANTED WANDERER: Leon Trotsky (second from right), Commissioner for War and organiser of the Soviet Army under Lenin, seen with his secretaries at his new home in Mexico-- the latest of the countries in which he has been allowed to take up residence. His permit to remain in Norway expired at the end of 1936 and was not renewed, as a result, it is assumed, of representations from Moscow. ...

... New London Mourns The Human Side of the Tragic School Explosion in the East Texas Oilfields The recent disaster in New London, in the Texas oilfields, in which more than 400 children met their deaths as the Consolidated School was blown to smithereens, is poignant in the extreme, even when vieived at a distance of 6,000 miles, but the accompanying account of its aftermath, pieced together from ...

... CORONATION PREPAY ATIONS PROCEED APACE The Great Carpets Arrive at the /Abbey The Construction d the Annexe The Coach Repaired and Taken to Buckingham Palace OFFICIAL STYLES OF HAIRDRESSING which will be the vogue during the coming Coronation season seen at a display at a Mayfair hotel organised by the Incorporated Guild of Hairdressers. The coiffures in the foreground are suggested as the ...

... The Annual Agony of SENDING-IN DAY A Personal Narrative BURGOS sat down at last. He drummed with his fingers on the table and tapped the floor incessantly with his feet, until at last Gus turned on him and shouted For the love of Allah, shut up! How was I to know you didn't keep a note of the labelling before the beastly things went off. To understand this mystery we must go back a period of ...

... HOW lovely women could be if only they did not take life so seriously. Or perhaps it is themselves that they take seriously -- which, of course, makes it worse than ever, for gaiety and a sympathetic lightness of mind are the secrets of charm. What a chance they have this year, if only they will take it. Romantic fabrics, the loveliest colours in the world, and lines that are as graceful as a ...