... . This sinking study shows what a rehearsal looks like, and illustrates the difference between a play when in course of production and the actual performance as witnessed bv the public. The piece in question is A Star Comes Home, by Reginald Long, which was recently produced at W imbledon with JAMES HARCOURT, ORIEL ROSS, and STEPHEN HAGGARD (I. ,0 r.) in the leading roles. Mr. Harcourt is the ...

... . LADY FORBES is the wife of ADMIRAL SIR CHARLES MORTON FORBES, K C.B., D.S.O., who has held the important post of Commander-in-Chief JT mC S'nCe 1938 She Swedish by birth, and was Miss Mane Louise Berndtson before her marriage in 1921. She and the Admiral have one daughter, MISS ELIZABETH FORBES, who is seen with her mother in this at-home study taken at their country place. PHOTOGRAPH BY ...

... ROYAL AND SOCIAL i OCCASIONS i IN THE WARTIME WORLD. H.R.H. the DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER bought some Christmas crackers when she j[ visited the sale of War-disabled ex- Servicemen's Work at the Lord Roberts' Memorial Workshops in Brompton Road last week. MISS JEAN NEILSON and MISS JANE CARR attended the first night of His Majesty's Guest, the new farce with Tom Walls at the Shaftesbury Theatre. ...

... . The marriage arranged between MISS ELIZABETH WELLESLEY, only daughter of Lord and Lady Gerald Wellesley and MR. THOMAS CLYDE, son of Mr. W. P. Clyde of New York and of Mrs. Allan Kyle is fixed to take place at St. Peter's Vere Street W.l, on Saturday next, November 18. PHOTOGRAPH BY HARLIP. ...

... WAR SERVICE- BY CENTRE COURIERS. MRS. JOAN STRAWSON, the well-known lawn tennis player, is an ambulance driver. She has been coping with converted laundry and tradesmen's vans and can now do night driving in her gas-mask. MISS ELIZABETH OLASCOCK, squash and rackets player right is an officer in the A.T.S. Her duties include instructing volunteers in how to map-read and drive and she acts as ...

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... f>£M Brai\d STOCKINGS i (>£M 6 \\A r\d STOCKINGS 3/n 4/11 5/11 6/n 8/n tea tattle talk to the tinkle of tea cups fashion's foibles friends' flirtations the Johnsons' new house and the Andersons' old quarrel inevitably comes the subject of stockings still more inevitably the blessings of Bear Brand their helpful habit of making legs look slimmer, more lovely their comforting custom of lasting ...

... THE TRAGEDY OF THE EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN AS A FILM: 3 PAUL MUNI, BRIAN f AHERNE AND BETTE DAVIS IN i JUAREZ. JUAREZ, the Warner Brothers picture version of the tragic story of the Emperor Maximilian of Mexico is due for pro duction at the Warner Theatre on Friday, November 17. PAUL MUNI plays the name- part, and is an impressive figure as the honest statesman and President. A still of Bette ...