... . HEATHER THATCHER'S background gives some idea of how far she has travelled to entertain the Forces both during the war and since. Last September she pioneered a venture sponsored by the R.A.F. under the aegis of Lord Tedder, and, starring in Little Lambs Eat Ivy, she covered all the air-lift and military bases travelled over 4000 miles, playing to thirty-four units in six weeks of one-night ...

... I . SHE wore an Easter bonnet, Feathers set upon it and flowers, too, and veils, on Easter Day in Hyde Park. For the ideal weather brought fashion out in its finest post-war flowering, and a crowd of many thousands converged on Rotten Row. A light dust hung above, stirred from underfoot the trees were flushed with green there was colour in the flower-beds a feeling of festivity in the sunlit ...

... CHOICE OF THE MONTH Selected by Our Panel of Experts IITFRATURE. Miss Winifred Felce, whose book Apes is uncomfortably full of human interest. 9^-r^ SCREEN. Jos6 Ferrer, whose capital performance of the vacillat ing Dauphin in Joan of Arc stands out from a cast which seems generally resigned to mediocrity. RADIO. Miss Dorothy L. Sayers For her series, The Man Born to be King, which moves ...

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... THE PYRENEES from the Cote Basque to the Cote Vermeille on the Mediterranean offer all the year round holiday enjoyment under a southern sun. For further details apply to any Travel Agent or to the French National Tourist Office, 179, Piccadilly, London, W.l v J o^v vAfr |}j|=j=|j== Modern medical science ...

... COUNTRY HOUSE AS A F.A.N.Y. RECRUITS' TRAINING COLLEGE: FUTURE MEMBERS OF THE WOMEN'S TRANSPORT SERVICE. Lectures on car construction and maintenance are an important part of the curriculum. They take place in the library of the country house 44 college Taking the wheel off an ambulance may be a tough job, but the F.A.N.Y.s easily manage this and many other more difficult running repairs. All ...

... . I-AQY DIANA COOPER, wife of the Minister of Information, Captain Alfred Duff Cooper, P.C., D.S.O., practises petrol economy by using a baby car when she drives round London. Here she is at the wheel of her Austin Seven, perfectly satisfied that it will take her anywhere she wants to go, and make driving in traffic the easiest thing in the world. V-XT- PHOTOGRAPH BY CECIL BEATON. ...

... : Lady Catherine de Bourgh (EDNA MAY OLIVER) patronises Elizabeth Bennet (GREER GARSON). She is unaware that her nephew, Darcy, is in love with Elizabeth. Left Elizabeth arrives to stay with Mrs. Collins (KAREN MORLEY), formerly Miss Lucas. The Bennet girls file up to bed Elizabeth (GREER GARSON), Lydia (ANN RUTHER FORD), Jane (MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN), Kitty (HEATHER ANGEL) and Mary (MARSHA HUNT) ...

... . After a three-day English honeymoon, newly-married film-star David Niven and his bride, Mrs. Hjordis Tersmeden, left for America with David and Jamie, his two sons by his first marriage. The second Mrs. Niven is regarded as one' of Sweden's loveliest girls she is twenty-seven, auburn-haired, and tall, and was Model No. 1 at a Stockholm store. Photographed by ANTONY BEAUCHAMP. ...

... by Louis T. Stanley TOW-PATH gossip is an amusing diversion. Before the war the public was regaled with intimate details in the private life of a rowing Blue. By illustration and the printed word we became familiar with the whims and peculiarities of eighteen young gentlemen. Nothing was sacred. Everything was news-value. All the trivialities of a doting parent for her progeny were trotted out ...

... By Urtica I AM sixty-seven years of age and I want to give less time to public affairs and more to my garden. Thus spoke Lord Vansittart recently to a friend. It was not so much a decision as a wish, for Van will never cut himself free from the chariot of world events. He was christened Robert Gilbert but was always called d Van, even (behind his back, of course) by the young _\5j ...