... FLAT- RACING AGAIN: BIG CROWDS AT HURST PARK. The flat-racing season opened on Easter Monday with .meetings at HURST PARK and at Birmingham instead of starting at Lincoln, as usual. Big crowds met at both meetings. This Hurst Park group consists of CAPTAIN J. SCOTT, MR. R. MOSTYN and MISS ELIZABETH BROMLEY. MRS. RYAN JARVIS and MRS. W. R. JARVIS are here in consultation with MR. RYAN JARVIS ...

... . England was in holiday mood over Easter, and the National Hunt meeting at New bury ivas well attended. The HON. SHEILA DIGBY'S Robin Hood hat teas admired. She is with MR. BRUCE CARLISLE. MRS. R. H. A. FOSTER wore a fur hood to match her coat. She is icith CAPTAIN R. H. A. FOSTER. MISS URSULA WYNDHAM QUIN wore a neat tailor-made and a turban hat. She is with MR. STANLEY CAYZER. The HON. ...

... THE OLD MAID AND QUEEN ELIZABETH SHOWS HER LEGS I BETTE DAVIS'S recent big hits were, in her own words, soured historical roles as the Empress Charlotte, in Juarez Queen Elizabeth, in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (Warner Theatre, Leicester Square); and as heroine of The Old Maid. Now she would remind her public that she is young, joyous and has slender, elegant legs. Rumour ...

... . A MUSIC ARTICLE BY EDWIN EVANS. SIR THOMAS BEECHAM has done it again. By the time this appears in print a Queen's Hall audi ence will have become acquainted with yet another of his Handelian transcriptions. Handel's forty operas, and especially the dances contained in them, are an apparently inexhaustible fund of ballet music to which he returns with the persistence of a bee on a summer's ...

... . BEA LILLIE looks surprised even slightly startled at her surrealisation in this highly original portrait study And it certainly is a remark able portrait of the star whose brilliant wit and sparkling personality have been seen to splendid advantage in the 44 All Clear revue, which was due to end its successful run at the Queen's last week. PHOTOGRAPH BY ANGUS MCBEAN. ...

... . The marriage of the EARL OF CHICHESTER, Press Attachi at the British Legation of the Hague, to MLLE. URSULA DE PANNWITZ, daughter of the late IT alter de Pannwitz and of Mme. Catalina de Pannwitz of Hartekamp Benne- broek Holland, took place according to Dutch Civil Late at Haarlem on March 27. The Burgomaster of Haarlem officiated, and Prince Bernard of the Netherlands attended the ...

... - MR. JAMES CROMWELL, here seen with MRS. CROMWELL FOR being AN AMERICAN DIPLOMAT WHO HAS NO DOUBTS CONCERNING THE JUSTICE OF THE ALLIES' CAUSE. MLLE. LILY PONS, here seen with her husband M. ANDrF KOSTELANETZ FOR HAVING THE FACE AND THE PERSONALITY TO LAUNCH THIS HAT. B MISS DOROTHY LAXSON FOR HAVING THIS GLAMOROUS GET-UP AS HER WORKING SUIT. I WING-COMMANDER A. D. FARQUHAR-- FOR MAKING THIS ...

... COME OUT TO PLAY WITH JESSIE MATTHEWS AND SONNIE HALE. MR. CECIL MAD DEN of the B.B.C. is seen going through the script I with JESSIE MAT- I THEWS and SON- NIE HALE, with a view to picking the most suitable for I broadcast excerpts. JESSIE does a staggeringly high- kick when she sings the old- world ditty 44 Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow-wow in the scene 44 George Remembers.'* Right The songs ...

... I OILHERT&SIJLLIVAN 1 ttlLBERT&SULLIVAN .jlI A PICTORIAL >AVTl RECORD OF OPERAS This 48 page pictorial record of the Gilbert and Sullivan Operas, published bv 48 PAGES OF PICTURES 8 PAGES IN COLOUR THE SPHERE, deals comprehensively with the most popular of the famous operas. All the new stars, as well as the established favourites, are featured in their own particular roles and MANY PAGES IN ...

... MARLENE HIGH-HAT IN A WILD WEST FILM. MARLENE DIETRICH looks very high-hat in this remarkable black felt model made with a stove-pipe crown and flared brim with cuff edges dipping over one lovely eye. The picture in which she wears it presents her in a part which is far from high-hat. as it 's the Wild and Woolly West film DESTRY RIDES AGAIN, recently seen at the Leicester Square Theatre, in ...

... CABARETS OF WARTIME LONDON REVIEWED BY ARTIST AND CAMERA: No. 11. EL MOROCCO-- THE SHOW AND THE SPECTATORS. The PEST FROM BUDAPEST. The Three Sisters, OLIVE, IRIS and RENEE. The female impersonator in the second cabaret. LUCILLE, the fan-dancer. TANIA in a strip-tease dance. The eleventh of our pictorial and literary reviews of London's wartime cabarets recorded by the Polish artist, M. Fcliks ...

... HAVE I A TONGUE TO DOOM MY BROTHER'S DEATH?. NOW YOU 'RE TALKING is one of three films designed to assist the Govern ment's ANTI-GOSSIP CAMPAIGN by illustrating how careless talk helps the enemy and endangers valuable lives. The scene is set in a munitions factory. SEBASTIAN SHAW and ALEC CLUNES, expert and assistant (left), order the guns of a shot-down raider to be brought in by lorry for ...