... DIANA WYNYARD SITS FOR HER PORTRAIT- BUST. PHOTOGRAPHS :BY A. COSTA. This series of photographs shows KONI at work on his portrait-bust of DIANA WYNYARD, and illustrates hoiv a sculptor gets to work. Note the homely touch of the knitting needle used to prevent the damp cloth with which the day must be covered at night from touching the face I Koni studied in Vienna and Paris has had many shows ...

... . THE Wimbledon lawn tennis spec tators were at first at a loss to know how good Bobby Riggs is. During the first week he had not given them more than patches of his best form, but even these patches were proof of what he can do. Some seem to feel that he is not a great player be cause his brilliant plav is not consistent others feel that his best is indicative of his usual game, but that he ...

... . T.R.H. the CROWN PRINCE and PRINCESS OF NORWAY look thoroughly at home in Wild West kit. They are mounted on western mustangs in Yellowstone National Park equipped with the one-thousand-five- hundred dollar Western outfits presented to them by Montana residents of Norwegian ancestry. The Crown Prince of Norway is the son of the late Queen of Norway, sister of our King George V. H.R.H. PRINCE ...

... . SONO OSATO, the nineteen-year-old Japanese- American ballerina is one of the leading dancers among the younger members of the Russian Ballet at Covent Garden. She trained under Adolph Bolm and has been with the ballet for the past three or four years. Our fine photographic study shows her in Proleef the Lichine choreographic tableau to Debussy music, with scenery and costumes by Chirico, in ...

... ALL SORTS AND CONDITIONS OF MEN-- A.P.C. IN TOWN TO-NIGHT by Mr. J. S. Dddgson. Taken with a Leica camera. Film Agfa. Exposure l-100th second at f.4. SADHU IN MEDITATION by Mr. Stanley Jepson. Taken with a Rolleiflex camera. Film Kodak. Exposure l-25th second at f.5.6. THE BASKET- MAKER by Mr. H. E. Williams. Taken with an Ikoflex camera. Film Agfa. Exposure l-250th second at f.3.5. MOTHER ...

... . I FEEL that I know Alice Marble better than most of the players. My opinion of her as a person is very definite. Perhaps the following story will help to describe that opinion and the reason for it. In 1934 I was asked to take a team to Paris to play against the French women, among whom were Mme. Mathieu and Sylvia Henrotin. I preceded the team to Paris, and when they arrived went to the ...

... BY THE HILLS. A PORTRAIT OF LADY MARGUERITE STRICKLAND, BY GERALD L. BROCKHURST, R.A., EXHIBITED IN THE ROYAL ACADEMY, I939. R ...

... THE SKETCH HOROSCOPES: No. VII.- FOR THOSE BORN UNDER THE SIGN OF LEO. FROM THE DRAWING BY ERT£. The seventh of The Sketch special illustrated horoscopes (not to be taken too seriously I) is for those under the sign of LEO, THE LION or men and women born between July 24 and August 23. Nobility, the out standing characteristic of Lion subjects, is indicated by the armorial bearings design ...

... GEORGIAN COSTUMES AT THE OSTERLEY GEORGIAN BALL: THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY REVIVED AT A FETE CHAMPETRE. The EARL and COUNTESS OF JERSEY under the portrait of his ancestor, Francis Child. At the Georgian Ball Lord Jersey wore a replica of the costume shown in the painting. MISS DEIRDRE DU BARRY in her Bacchante dress, with MR. PETER GLENVILLE, the young actor in Roman dress eighteenth-century ...

... . THE MODERN MIRACLE, the first Cosmopolitan production to come out of Twentieth Century-Fox studios, was due at the New Gallery on July 16. It is the story of the invention of the telephone. LORETTA YOUNG plays Mabel Hubbard, afterwards Mrs. Bell (right). She is slightly deaf. Her sisters Grace (POLLY ANN YOUNG), Berta (GEORGIANA YOUNG), and Gertrude (SALLY BLANE I. to r.), quickly suspect ...

... A MUSIC ARTICLE BY EDWIN EVANS THE ballet being for the present occupied with revivals of familiar productions, the moment seems op portune for the discussion of a ques tion of concert and theatre ethics that some recent experi ences have forced upon my notice. The question is not a new one. If this were to be a lay sermon I would take my text from the 32nd chapter of Ecclesiasticus, in the ...

... THE GARBO AT WORK ON A NEW PICTURE. GRETA GARBO, who is here looking ultra-modern and wearing a new version of her famous long bob, has just begun work on her first picture for two years. This is M.-G.-M.'s sophisticated romantic comedy, Ninotchka, which is set in Paris, Moscow and Constantinople, and directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Melvyn Douglas is playing opposite to her for the second time, ...