... News Reel Portraits and Presentations The Queen Presents a Cross to Polish Guides When the Queen paid a visit to the headquarters of the Girl Guides' Associa tion in Buckingham Palace Road last Wednesday, she had presented to her Mme. Malkoicska, the founder of the Polish Guides, who hopes to start schools and training centres for refugee Polish children here. For the great gallantry and ...

... In Paris, Too The Theatres are Reopening Mireille, a bride in trousers, heads this page of pictures taken during rehearsals for the first important first night of wartime Paris. She was acting in Fausse Alerte, one of the short Guitry plays of the programme. Paris theatres, like London, are reacting against le bleu (blackout), after a first retreat, with considerable activity Sacha Guitry ...

... Miss Louise Rivi&re Vivienne Louise Riviere is engaged to Captain the Hon. Richard Denison- Pender, younger son of Lord and Lady Pender, of 65, Eaton Place, S.W.I. She is the only daughter of the late Henry Gilbey Riviere and Mrs. Riviere, of 17, Ovington Court, S.W.3, and Middle Cottage, Sandwich Bay. She is on the stage, played Jane Baxter's part in George and Margaret on tour, teas in ...

... M Up to the ankle is the slogan for winter walking shoes. A town version of the country boot is shown at the top of the page, in suede with a deep turnover and lacing all the way up. The middle picture shows a lighter shoe with the built-up effect achieved by a fluted tongue. For cocktail dances, take the floor in the punched sandals with buckled heel straps shown immediately above. All these ...

... By Alan C. Hess IN these days of war, the cream of British womanhood is in the Services, and as very many of these ladies are driving vehicles of one type or another, an added piquancy attaches to the old, old question of the merits of women drivers as compared with men. Now this is not only a dan gerous subject but, worse, it is a difficult one-- and one upon which I lack the moral courage to ...

... The British Art Centre Holds Its First Exhibition at the Stafford Gallery in St. James's Place Opening speeches were made by Kenneth Lindsay M.P. Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education, and A. P. Herbert, M.P., a member of the B.A.C. Honorary Committee. Mr. Lindsay expressed the interest the Board of Education is showing in this enterprise, and said I hope shortly to be able to ...

... Star Into Matelot Jean Gabin Now Serves His Country in the French Navy If the French film industry organised a poll in England for your favourite film-actor, Jean Gabin would come somewhere very near heading the list. Maybe women's votes would put him at the top. He is Parisian by birth, and thirty- five years old. His magnificent performance in La Bite Humaine gives significance to a ...

... Miss Sheila Macdonald Canteen manager is Sheila Mac donald, sister of Malcolm Macdonald, the Colonial Secretary. She works at the Hampstead W. V.S. Central Hospitals Supplies Depot, which is housed in a convent Mrs. Bostock, Lady Margaret Douglas-Home Also working in the conventual setting of the Hampstead Depot are Mrs. Geoffrey Bostock, who is the head cutter, and Lady Margaret Douglas-Home, ...

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... Mt would be so unlike Christmas without THE CHRISTMAS NUMBER of THE BYSTANDER for all in the house to enjoy. The next time you visit your bookstall or regular newsagent, ask for a copy to be reserved for you and we have no doubt he will gladly deliver it to your home. A heavy demand is anticipated, so we venture to suggest that you act early. If your news agent is on the phone, why not ring ...

... The Passing Hour Wartime Comments and Asides By A. G. Macdonell THE danger in the Low Countries seems to have abated a little (though of course, by the time this reaches you it may have flared up again). There is undoubtedly something in the German argument that they have so many troops that they must put them somewhere, and that it would be madness to concen trate them in a great mass behind ...

... 1 The War Week by Week War to Begin War SINCE the war to end war ended, half-a-dozen countries have fallen victim to the new kind of war-- undeclared war. Either by the threat or making of war they were taken, but war was never declared, and was even indignantly denied to be intended or in progress. Thus, for years, wars were made without being declared. We have invented something new we have ...