... Debenbam Freebody (J j W Elegant simplicity is the keynote of this dinner gown in heavy crepe, with slim silhouette and softly gauged at the waist. The severity is relieved by coloured embroidery at the neck and sleeve. In black, magenta and fAl leaf green. Available in six sizes. I 42 GNS Large size 1 guinea extra We have six carefully studied sizes in this department: Sizes 40 42 44 45 46 48 ...

... we have on our second floor arranged an amazing collection of beautifully styled and fashioned clothes all inexpensively priced illustrated are two picked at random. For the first sunny days have ready a slip-on Coat like this. In attractive curl cloth, light in weight yet very warm and cosy. Lined throughout. In off white or ice blue. Hip _ _ sizes 36, 38, 40 and 42 in. 4 5 Tailored Suit ...

... Hodm Jccws maintains the quality of its fabrics and the high standard of its productions. The model illustrated is in 'Gorslan' Scotch Tweed. Made by W. O. PEAKE Ltd 21 Hanover Street, W.1. Wholesale and Export. Also at Paris, Montreal, Amsterdam, Brussels, Melbourne New York 9-11 East 37th Street. ...

... 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 QUARTER LATIN IN WAR-TIME French Students Revisit Ancient Haunts of Learning and -With British Airmen on Leave -Seek Dis traction from War at the Bookshops and Stalls IN FRONT OF THE PANTHEON IN THE QUARTIER LATIN A student returns to the once familiar streets by the Seine and wanders through them with his relatives and friends. Behind them is the huge domed building which houses the ...

... A BOW VIEW OF H.M.S. ARK ROYAL AS SHE ARRIVED AT PORTSMOUTH FOR REVICTUALLING AND REFUELLING. THE WHITE ENSIGN STILL FLOATS ABOVE HER FLIGHT DECK: Reported sunk by the Nazi wireless, H.M.S. Ark Royal has just returned home for refuelling and revictualling. Lying at her berth at Portsmouth, the huge aircraft-carrier presents a picture of grim efficiency in her war-time coat of grey. No battle ...

... FROM SURRENDERED TERRITORIES ON THE KARELIAN ISTHMUS AND THE HANGOE PENINSULA EVACUATING THE KARELIAN ISTHMUS When the stunning news of the cession of the Karelian Isthmus broke upon the Finns, a great trek began of both the Army and the inhabitants of the district which had been so courageously defended. Long processions of horsed sleighs proceeded northwards, bearing goods of all kinds, ...

... A GERMAN ARTIST'S WORK DEDICATED IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY The great Biblical candelabrum, which was recently presented to the Abbey by an anonymous donor and has now been dedicated by the Dean. This magnificent example in bronze, representing thirty-two figures from the Old Testament, is 6 ft. high and 7 ft. wide and was exhibited at the Royal Academy last year and judged to be of great artistic ...