... BRITAIN'S No. 1 LAWN TENNIS GIRL AND HER FIANCE. B The engagement of MISS KAY STAMMERS, the laten tennis star, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Stammers of Wood Walk, St. Albans, to MR. MICHAEL MENZIES, younger son of the late Mr. F. Graham Menzies and of Mrs. Menzies, has just been announced, and the marriage ivill take place in January. Miss Stammers, who is Britain's No. 1 Laivn Tennis Girl, ...

... . The first war-charity hall to be held in London since the outbreak of hostilities was QUEEN CHARLOTTE'S CHRIST MAS LEAVE DINNER- DANCE in aid of the work of the hospital for the wives of Service men. It took place at Grosvenor House and the evening's fun included a cabaret in which FRANCES DAY appeared. Douglas Byngt Alice Delysia and Brian Sheridan were the other artists. I The MARCHIONESS ...

... TO AMUSE THE KIDS: OUR EIGHTY-SECOND FIRST-PRIZE WINNER.-- A.P.C. This delightful study, which might well have been taken at Christmas -time, when fun and amusement for the kids is our chief preoccupation, has been awarded the eighty-second first prize in our AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS' COMPETITION. It ivas taken by Mr. M. E. A. Powell with a Voigtlander camera. Film Ilford. Exposure 12 seconds ...

... This fine interior, which recalls the peaceful luminous genre pictures of the Dutch seventeenth-century masters, has been awarded the eightieth first-prize in our AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS' COMPETITION. It was taken by Mrs. Hugh Higgon, with a Voigtlander camera. Film Kodak. Exposure five seconds at f.4.5. ...

... THE SKETCH CROSS-WORD. ACROSS. 1. Ball or aged baron minus a penny in a mix-up (two words 7 and 7). 8. View (6). 10. It sounds as if a finger was hungry for a botanical term (8). 13. You walk on them to be quiet (4). 15. 47 for the floor (4). 18. Scientists split this (4). 19. Lead in Frank (anag.) (three words 4, 3, 4). 23. They guard the leader (2). 24. Printer's measure (2). 25. If you ...

... SANTA CLAUS ON ACTIVE SERVICE. HOW TO CHOOSE YOUR WARTIME CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. WAR has solved the Christmas present problem. This year we need not rack our brains and cogi tate for hours to find acceptable offerings for friends at home or abroad. New conditions have created thousands of fresh wants which clamour to be satisfied by the happiest, most seasonable means-- those of intelligent ...

... OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND-- NEW AND DIFFERENT. PHOTOGRAPH BY ALEXANDER PAAL. OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND S admirers may not at Jirst recognise in tnis sway me star chosen to play Melanie in Gone With the Wind and to be David Nivens opposite number in Raffles The portrait shows how she allowed f Perc Westmore Warner s make-up artist, to prove that she can be trans formed into half-a-dozen different Olivia ...

... . I SENORITA SIBIL A SENORET, eldest j daughter of H.E. the Chilean Ambassador and Sehora Senoret 1 married SEIZOR JORGE UGARET, a Chilean architect at t/ie Catholic Church I Ascot. The bride groom travelled in six i different ships to Eng- I land, including the j Stonegate, which was sunkby the Deutsch- land He was aboard the German pocket- battleship five days. FLIGHT-LIEUT. W. R. PENMAN, ...

... GAIETY AND GRACE FROI A COCHRAN'S NEW REVUE. A Day in the Life of g a Mr. Cochran's Young Lady --the early morn ing stretch. Right DORIS HARE in Didn't Really Never Oughter Ave Went one of the smash hits of the show. EVELYN LAYE singing You *ve Done Something to My Heart. PHYLLIS STANLEY in The Fragonard Picture number. EVELYN LAYE as Prince Charming ii the Christmas Pantomime number. ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. IF you want to be in at the début of a young film star who is going to be much heard of in the near future, you must go to the Leicester Square Odeon and see Gloria Jean in THE UNDERPUP. Gloria is eleven, with a sweet, child's singing voice, teeth in the half-and-half growing stage, and a round face that makes you think sometimes of Shirley Temple, but more often of ...

... WHEN I WAS LAST A -FISHING. SALMON are now busy on the spawning-beds. They make a nest of sorts for their ova, forming a hollow in the gravel and filling it again as the eggs are laid. Having finished the redd, as it is called, the salmon has no further in terest in its offspring. Parental instincts are more highly developed in some other fishes. To a point, the male stickleback is an ...

... . CAPTAIN J. M. McNEILL, R.A., only son of Brig.-General and Mrs. Angus McNeill, married MISS BARBARA MARSH, daughter of the late Colonel Cunliffe Marsh at All Saints', Ennismore Gardens. Belotv MISS HELEN BLANE, captain of the British Ladies' Ski Team, and only child of the late Commander Sir Charles Blane, Bt., R.N., and of Lady Blane, is engaged to Mr. William Robert Tomkinson, elder son of ...