... DESIGNER FOR MANON --JAMES BAILEY. Last year James Bailey scored an outstanding success with his enchanting treatment of a new produc ion d 44 Giselle this year comes forward again with his first designs for opera. He has brought to the stn-.e set and lovely costumes for Massenet's Manon, which opened at Covent Garden last Thursday, that same r ...

... ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHT- FILM PRODUCER PETER USTINOV. At sixteen Peter Ustinov left Westminster School with L very definite ideas as to a career. .After training I under Michel Saint-Denis he had parts in several West End straight plays went into the Army in 1942, but at times acted and produced plays for garrison theatres. The critics found his plays, House of I Regrets and 44 The Banbury Nose, ...

... WHEN I WAS LAST A -FISHING. THIS time last year I recorded the excellent sport enjoyed by Sir Edward Mountain's party on the Spey. From the beginning of May up to the 27th the total bag was 206 fish. This year angling conditions have been ex ceedingly difficult on the Spey during May, according to Captain T. L. Edwards, who writes to me from Delfur Lodge, where he is spending a few days with ...

... . m iii nfciBHiiMiiii**,aiaTrl^T V Malvern College is evacuated to Blenheim Palace, the magnificent seat of the Duke of Marlborough, and its noble lawns were recently the scene of a cricket match between Malvern and Shrewsbury. Here is a general view of the fine facade, built by f anbriwh. as a harkvrmind tn th/> aamn H. M. SELLS, tcho made top score for Malvern with 57, is seen making a dash ...

... SUNSHINE is still unrationed, and sun-bathing stores up health for next winter. Debenham and Freebody, Wigmore Street, have this attractive swim-and-sun suit for 25s. gd. It is in blue and white striped satin, the short skirt flaring out over a close-fitting navy found ation, the stripes cleverly used to give a slimming line. ANOTHER angle of Debenham and Freebody's swim-suit, on the left, ...

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... Beverley Baxter SO telephoning is going to cost us more. Well done, Sir Stafford! I hope that you will hold out against the forces that are trying to make you reverse your decision. What a tyrant the telephone is with its peremp tory ring and its utter lack of tact. It waits until we just get into the bath, and then summons our immediate dripping presence. No one has the strength of mind to ...

... .i PRINCESS ELIZABETH and the Duke of Edinburgh, who is President of the National Playing Fields Association, were guests of honour at the ball held in aid of the Association's Silver Jubilee Campaign at the Dorchester. Other guests were Lady Brabourne, Lady hmel Mountbatten, and Lady Margaret Hay. They danced to Bill Savill's band; there was a tombola with prizes and Jack Train acted as ...

... . 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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