... A MEMBER OF THE SKETCH CRITIC TEAM. The HON. THEODORA BENSON, novelist and short-story writer in the London house which she is sharing for the duration with the Hon. Betty Askwith. Miss Askicith and Miss Benson are the descriptive writers in our team of critics, whose new-style pictorial and literary reviews of London's wartime shows are such a successful Sketch feature. Topolski, the artist, ...

... WOMEN WHO WILL HE WIVES OF MINISTERS GOVERNMENT TO WIN: NSTON'S war cabinet. MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL'S War Cabinet of men of action, chosen from politicians holding every shade of opinion, hut all determined to W(*j{i jJ^lp th ...

... . H.R.H. the DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER wore the smart uniform of the Force when she visited the recruiting office of the WOMEN'S AUXILIARY AIR FORCE. H.M. THE QUEEN paid a surprise visit to a Ministry of Health Emergency Hospital near London, where she chatted with some of the B.E.F. wounded just home from France. This young MUNITION WORKER does not look as if she found her seven-day week in the ...

... . MRS. RONALD CROSS is the wife of Mr. Ronald Cross Conservative Member for Rossendale who has been appointed Minister of Shipping in Mr. Winston Churchill's War Government. She was Miss Louise Emmott is a daughter of the late Mr. Walter EmmoU of Emmott Hall, Colne, Lancashire, married Mr. Cross in 1925 and has three daughters. Mr. Cross, who served in the 1914-18 war with the Duke of ...

... . THE SWISS FAMILY i ROBINSON is one of the most popular of tropical island adven ture stories, and has delighted children of several generations. Now it has come to the screen in full period finery the date is 1811 with Edna Best in the only woman's r6le, that of fashionable, society- crazy Elizabeth Robin- I son, who is shipwrecked on a tropical isle with her husband and sons, and becomes so ...

... Robert Fulton (1765-1815), the American mechanician and engineer, is the hero of LITTLE OLD NEW YORK, due at the Odeon, Leicester Square, on June 3. The story opens with his return to America from Europe, with a model of his paddle- boat steamer. The idea rouses ridicule, and it is only with great difficulty that he raises the money to build the boat. When half- finished she is burnt by the ...

... (LILY OF THE VALLEY) Clear and cool as the note of a convent bell stealing across the still waters of a lake at eventide has a wistful purity which tugs at the strings of the heart. The serene fragrance of lily of the valley can never be mistaken for any other perfume, and that fragrance is imprisoned for ever in ',' created by Coty. ',' loveliest of flower perfumes, costs from 32/6 to 3/9. ...

... . ANTI-AIRCRAFT BATTERY AND DESCENDING BALLOON by KENNETH ROWNTREE. AUXILIARY FIREMEN AT TEA by ROBERT MEDLEY. NIGHT TRANSPORT by VIVIAN PITCHFORTH. yC-r3FW r**- COASTAL DEFENCE by KENNETH ROWNTREE. ST. JOHN AMBULANCE MEN STANDING BY by RUPERT SHEPHARD. PREPARING APPARATUS, VOLUNTARY TRANSFUSION SERVICE by CLAUDE ROGERS. ENGLAND IN WARTIME is the title of an interesting exhibition of works by ...

... ANGLING otters one of the few escapes from an insane world. When ever possible, anglers are snatching a few hours by the river or lakeside or the seashore to ease the tension before resuming their war tasks with renewed energy. That is the explanation of the seemingly contradictory phenomenon of a peaceful pursuit being maintained while the nation is engaged in a life-and-death struggle. An ...

... We got up early and walked across Exmoor and were fortunate enough to see a magnificent specimen of the wild red deer which roam the forests and moors of this romantic part of Devon. The Whiteway Cyder apple orchards at Whimple, which are the largest in the World, were in full blossom and were a magnificent sight. We all loved the little white pigs, which skipped about playfully under the ...

... MODELLED on a monk's robe, this graceful tea-gown is in a chalk-white Celanese matt material. This is one of the models made by Marshall and Snelgrove, Oxford Street, for the Ascot cabaret at Grosvenor House, and very effective it looks, with its softly draped hood, trailing sleeves, and long rope girdle. It comes from their tea- gown department, and could be copied in other colours and ...

... , By C. A. LEJEUNE. EVERY new Lubitsch film is a Some thing-- and although the newest, THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (Ritz), is unlike any thing we have learnt to associate with Lubitsch, I am cer tain that the majority of people will be charmed by it. The piece is a whimsical comedy of Budapest in the happy days of not-so-long-ago. Lubitsch, like so many Continentals, is a sentimentalist at ...