... . COUNTESS HAUGWITZ-REVENTLOW, the former Miss Barbara Hutton, lives at W infield House Regent's Park, a spacious London mansion built to her requirements, and set in its own large grounds. She is one of the best-loohing women in society, and not only has beauty of face and figure, but possesses lovely hands, with finely-shaped filbert nails which she wears without any coloured varnish. camera ...

... WHEN I WAS LAST A -FISHING. EVERYBODY admires the common goldfish, for they are such cheerful, sprightly little fish. Without question, they are the most popular and best known of all fishes to the majority of people. Strangely enough, there is more con fusion as to their ancestry than about any other fish. I must admit that I was not too clear myself as to whether or not the goldfish was, ...

... BEAUTIFUL FOG: OUR THIRTY SECOND FIRST- PRIZE WINNER. This fine photograph which illustrates a beautiful effect produced by that highly unpopular weather condition, fog, has been awarded the thirty-second first prize in our AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS' COMPETITION. It was taken by Mr. P. M. Rogers, with a Rolleiflex camera. Film Agfa. Exposure 2 minutes at f.3.5. The runner-up prize-winning ...

... FIVE tl I STARS AND ONE PRI\ \TE INDIVIDUAL! Miss JOAN BENNETT, here posed with a charming golden cocker spaniel which has no stage or screen ambitions, J I Wlh i)ut is a private individual, is starring in Waller Wanger's Trade Winds at the London Pavilion. Here I/II her natural ash-blonde hair is arranged in 1939 style. In Trade Winds she appears in most sequences MM Ijjjjjj with dark brown ...

... . These two beautiful studies of MERLE OBERON, the British screen-star show her as a beach girl wearing a graceful wrap and in her swim-suit giving a final touch to the cap tchich protects her hair, before plunging into the Pacific. The latter picture teas taken before the shooting of a sea sequence ivith Gary Cooper in Samuel Goldwyn's The Cotvboy and the Lady, which is due for its premiere ...

... FAY COMPTON IN A CHRISTMAS -CARD SETTING. MISS FAY COMPTON is the Principal Boy, Robin Hood, in the Drury Lane pantomime The Babes in the Wood. Here she is posed in a decor with a real Christmas-card atmosphere about it. Scenes from the panto are given elsewhere in this issue. PHOTOGRAPH BY ANGUS MCBF.AN ...

... MEETING in the PARK. Two bright young stars of the English stage John Hep worth dismounts to have a talk with Glynnis Johns who as the young brides maid in Quiet Wedding, shows an appropriate interest in clothes and a brilliant turn for light comedy. HIDING-CLOTHES FROM MOSS BROTHERS JOHN EVERARD ...

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... HAIL, KING WINTER I THE AVALANCHE by Mr. R. M. Jaeger. Taken with 1 a Rolleiflex camera. Film Kodak. Exposure 1-lOOth second at f.6.3. Yellotv filter used. j THE MATTERHORN by Mrs. William Younger. Taken f with a Leica camera. Film Agfa. Exposure l-200th 1 second at f.5.6. U.V. filter used. jjjU THE LONE SKI-ER by Mr. R. M. Jaeger. Taken with Jggg a Rolleiflex camera. Film Kodak. Exposure 1-1 ...

... . MISS CHRISTIAN GRANT is the youngest sister of Sir Arthur Grant eleventh Baronet, of the House of Monymusk, Aberdeenshire, and ivill be one of the important debutantes of 1939. She has already had a Scottish season, having attended a number of dances and functions in her native land. The Grants of Monymusk are a branch of the noble house of Grant (Earls of Seafield). The first Baronet, Sir ...

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO THE DIONNE QUINS, Fof Being an All Sisters Panto. Cast. Cinderella (YVONNE) forced to help the Ugly Sisters (ANNETTE and MARIE) prepare for the hall. The Fairy Godmother (CECILIE) about to transform the pumpkin and rats into a glass coach-and-four. Prince Charming (EMILIE) picks up the glass slipper as Cinderella (YVONNE) j leaves on the stroke oj midnight. Cinderella ...