... . This remarkable movie-set photograph illustrates the importance of detail, and the immense amount of care which great directors expend on getting things exactly as they want them. The camera, which is to be seen on the boom, on the left, has suspended operations while DIRECTOR ALFRED HITCHCOCK (lower foreground white shirt goes into a disquisition on how the stairs are to be negotiated by ...

... WINGED FEET AND FEATHERED HEADS OF AMERICA'S RESIDENT BALLET CORYPHEES WHOSE AUDIENCE RUNS INTO A TOTAL OF MILLIONS. These lovely photographs shotc some of the members of America's famous CORPS DE BALLET OF THE RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL, NEW YORK. It is the only resident ballet in America, and is directed by Miss Florence Rogge. Thirty or forty different ballets are given annually, and it has been ...

... . By H. E. SYMONS. FRANCE, the happy hunting-ground of so many British motorists, is not-- out wardly and visibly, at any rate-- changed very much as regards motoring conditions. Petrol, though restricted, is not rationed to anything like the. same extent as in England, and as there is no vehicle tax one still sees a laree num ber of cars on the road. With characteristic common sense the ...

... . LADY MARY CLEMENTINE PRATT is the only daughter of the Earl and Countess of Brecknock. She is engaged to Flight Lieut, the Hon. H. Osteoid Berry. The COUNTESS OF BRECKNOCK, in her uniform. She is a member oj the Women's Transport Sendee the branch of the F.A.N. Y .5 which now works with the A.T.S. FLIGHT LIEUTENANT the HON. H. OSWALD BERRY is the fifth son of Lord Kemsley. His engagement to ...

... THEATRES OF WARTIME LONDON REVIEWED BY ARTIST AND CAMERA: No. 20. COTTAGE TO LET, THE THRILLER AT WYNDHAM'S. The arrival of the model aeroplane thrills Barington and Ronald. The finale with Marguerite Barington (PAMELA NELL) and George Perrey (THORNLEY WALTERS) in the background. The local police in action. P.C. Mathers (HENRY BLOOMFIELD), Chief Constable Gannett (CHARLES MORTIMER), and ...

... - TV/TISS LESLEY BROOK, in private life Lesley Lea- rovd, is Acting Flight Lieut. Learoyd's only sister. She is on the stage and has made suc cesses in Dangerous Corner and in the film Night Alone. TV/TRS. STANNARD is the wife of Lieut. R. B. Stannard, R.N.R., of the armed trawler H.M.S. Arab, the sixth V.C. of the war. When enemy bombing attacks had set on fire tons of hand-grenades on ...

... GARDEN-PARTY AND FETE FOR SPITFIRES LORD BEAVERBII (S DAUGHTER RAISES MORE AIRCRAFT- PRODUCTION FUNDS. rpHE HON. MRS. DROGO MON TAGU, only daughter of Lord Beaverbrook, is the first woman to inaugurate the garden- party and fete in aid of Spitfires and 44 Hurricanes. She organised a most suc cessful cfTort at her country place in Sussex and, as a result of a sale at which the goods included ...

... . VISCOUNT DUNCANNON I elder son of the Earl of Bessborough-, a former Governor-General of Canada, is A.D.C. to LIEUT.-GEN. A. G. L. McNAUGHTON (r.), whose Corps command embraces the 1st Canadian Division. MISS OLGA LEHMANN is the first English artist to paint mural decorations in an A.R.P. H.Q. She is seen putting finishing touches to her mural in the Wardens' Club at St. Pancras A.R.P. ...

... . NIGHT MUST FALL, Emlyn Williams' well-known murder drama, was presented by members of Chelsea Red Cross Detachments at Chelsea Polytechnic from August 16-22 in aid of the Red Cross Funds. This group shows Hubert (FRANK BENNETT), Dan (HUGH SKILLEN), Mrs. Bramson (PAMELA STANLEY), and Olivia (CATHERINE KIRBY). Dan brings Airs. Bramson a cushion and for a moment the sinister possibilities of ...

... GOD GAVE HIM A DOG-- BILLY LEE AND HIS POINTER, PROMISE. The despised runt of the litter, which becomes a champion PROMISE, the dog star of GOD GAVE HIM A DOG. BILLY LEE as Lonnie McNeil, patiently training Promise for a Field Trials champion. Promise (TIVERTON INCADER), the pointer, is found by Lonnie thieving in the hen-house. The education of Promise proceeds BILLY LEE, with CORDELL ...

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... A TOPICAL At a recent fierce fire which destroyed our works completely, one of your Anglepoise Lamps was in a TESTIMONIAL burnt-out office. The lamp was the only article fit for further use. Apart from some of the black enamel TO TERRY'S that had been burnt off, and the lampshade, which had been absolutely destroyed, the rest of the stand was ANGLEPOISE in perfect condition. This, I think, is ...