... 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 ...

... WHEN I WAS LAST A -FISHING. SO far, the results of the opening weeks of the salmon-fishing season have not been spectacular, though catches have been quite encouraging and pros pects are distinctly good. I see that the Bishop of London had a ten-pounder on the Tay, and during the week from March 9 to March 16, Mr. R. B. Elliot had a dozen salmon, in cluding single-day catches of four and ...

... . 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 ...

... 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. ...