... . 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 HON. JOHN McLAREN, second son of and Lady Aberconway to LADY ROSE PAGET, fourth daught of the Marquess and Marchioness of Anglesey, took place week at Chelsea Old Church. The bride is a niece of L Diana Cooper of Lady Violet Benson, and of the Duke of Halloo I PHOTOGRAPH BY PAYER, 66, GROSVENOR CTRE ...

... I ww/LY- ENGAGED PAIR. II 1 The engagement of MR. THOMAS COCKAYNE HARVEY, Scots Guards, younger son of the late Colonel John Harvey, and of Mrs. Harvey, of Ringstead Bury, Norfolk, to the HON. MARY COKE, younger daughter of Viscount and Viscountess Coke, and granddaughter of the Earl of Leicester, has been aniwunced. Miss Coke is doing war work at the Beaver Club. PHOTOGRAPH BY HARL1P. ...

... THE APOSTLE OF PEACE ON THE BATTLEFIELD OF MUSIC: If SIR THOMAS BEECHAM CONDUCTING THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducting, says the Oxford Companion to Music, is generalship on the battlefield of music. Forces, often large and very varied in their functions, have to be so controlled that they will combine together not only accurately, but with unity of spirit. A propos his ...

... THE FOOD OF LOVE. A MUSIC ARTICLE BY EDWIN EVANS. THERE has lately been made pub lic an item of news, interest in which is shared by musicians and pugil ists, by amateurs of the arts tonal and ''noble.'' Mv friend Ernest Newman, who loves a fight, has therefore double ground for rejoicing at this news, which is of the early reopening of the Royal Albert Hall. I did not see any official ...

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... THEATRES OF WARTIME LONDi VIEWED BY ARTIST AND CAMERA: No. 2. FUNNY SIDE UP AT AJESTY'S STAGE AND AUDITORIUM. FLORENCE DESMOND as Madame Gherkin in The Village Concert. FLORENCE DESMOND as Ethel Levey in a scene from Towards the Stars. A view of the packed auditorium at His Majesty's. II est mort an impression of the dudt Left Watching Dessie but what 's thin with the man in the middle? A ...

... - PILOT OFFICER W. V. MACHIN, here seen with MRS. MACHIN, formerly Miss M. D. R. Pryce FOR PILOTING HIS PRETTY BRIDE UNDER A 'plane ARCHWAY INTO MATRIMONY. CAPTAIN J. P. PARKINSON, R.A.M.C., here seen with MRS. PARKINSON, formerly Dr. Marion Kerr FOR PROVING TO HIS BRIDE THAT SHE LOOKS SWEET ON THE BACK SEAT OF A DOG-CART MADE FOR TWO. LADY PHYLLIS ALLEN FOR CUTTING HER HORSE-POWER SO SMARTLY ...