... COUNTRY HOUSE AS A F.A.N.Y. RECRUITS' TRAINING COLLEGE: FUTURE MEMBERS OF THE WOMEN'S TRANSPORT SERVICE. Lectures on car construction and maintenance are an important part of the curriculum. They take place in the library of the country house 44 college Taking the wheel off an ambulance may be a tough job, but the F.A.N.Y.s easily manage this and many other more difficult running repairs. All ...

... . I-AQY DIANA COOPER, wife of the Minister of Information, Captain Alfred Duff Cooper, P.C., D.S.O., practises petrol economy by using a baby car when she drives round London. Here she is at the wheel of her Austin Seven, perfectly satisfied that it will take her anywhere she wants to go, and make driving in traffic the easiest thing in the world. V-XT- PHOTOGRAPH BY CECIL BEATON. ...

... : Lady Catherine de Bourgh (EDNA MAY OLIVER) patronises Elizabeth Bennet (GREER GARSON). She is unaware that her nephew, Darcy, is in love with Elizabeth. Left Elizabeth arrives to stay with Mrs. Collins (KAREN MORLEY), formerly Miss Lucas. The Bennet girls file up to bed Elizabeth (GREER GARSON), Lydia (ANN RUTHER FORD), Jane (MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN), Kitty (HEATHER ANGEL) and Mary (MARSHA HUNT) ...

... . . Over 100,000 little ones are annually rescued by the Society from unsuitable or neglectful homes. A gift to the Hon. Treasurer, Sir George Wyatt Truscott, Bt., N.S.P.C.C., Victory House, Leicester Square, W.C.2, will help to make the Children's Festival of Christmas a happy one. Helping to defend our freedom are 2703 Barnardo old boys fellows who as children were admitted to the circle of ...

... . THESE laughing young men, with the clear eyes and open countenances of the British sailor, are representa tive pilots and observers of the FLEET AIR ARM, the force which struck 44 a crippling blow at the Italian Navy by raid ing the 44 Wops* Nest at Taranto on the night of Novem ber 11-12. As a result of their 44 call,** two Italian battleships were half-sunk a third was severely damaged two ...

... - MRS. JAMES BRINDLEY NICOLSON received simultaneous congratulatory telegrams on two very great events in her life the conferring of the Victoria Cross on her young husband, FLIGHT LIEUTENANT JAMES BRINDLEY NICOLSON, and the birth of her son, GAVIN JAMES NICOLSON. On August 16, Lieut. Nicolson's aircraft was hit so badly that he intended to bale out. He then sighted an enemy and stayed in his ...

... . The marriage of PILOT OFFICER BORIS WARD, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. F. Ward, to ASSISTANT SECTION OFFICER PATRICIA JOAN HEMMING, eldest daughter of Wing Commander H. Hem ming, A.F.C., was solemnised with pic turesque ceremonial at the Russian Church, Victoria. MISS SUSAN BLIGH, younger daughter of Major the Hon. Noel Bligh and of the late Hon. Mrs. Bligh, is engaged to Major William Stirling ...

... PRINCIPAL GIRL- ELECT. ROBERTA HUBY is to j be principal girl in the Formby panto mime, 44 Dick Whit- tington at Blackpool. She 's a vivacious and good-looking Londoner who has quickly shot up to the top of the theatrical tree. After training at the Mac- Laren School of dancing she got her first part in 44 Toad of Toad Hall at the Savoy at the age of sixteen. Cabaret en gagements in London ...

... I STAR'S RITUAL- MORNING AND EVENING. Nineteen-year-old PAT KIRK- WOOD, who shot up to star- dom as the result of her Black Velvet big hit, is now on tour. She 's one of the apostles of that excellent keep fit creed, and never fails to follow the ritual of night and morning P.T., as illustrated. She will be the Princip a I Girl to Lupino Lane's Aladdin at Nottingham. ^nlrrxininr ...

... Debenliam Freehody Debenliam Freehody An attractive coat of black Persian lamb S9 Giis. LANgham 4444 WIGMORE STREET, LONDON, W.l (Debenhams, Ltd.) ...

... RSV HSH 3k 3FINBER-TIPS M. 1H UNIFORM m W} {AND IN MUFTI 4M Finger-tips in uniform are discreet. Most service women who come to the Salon choose from the subtle range of pale polish shades. Women in the non-military services favour whimsy, a lovely subdued rose. But when women are in mufti (and what an ex citing flavour that dull word has now that women have stolen it from men they gaily take ...

... . FROM THE PHOTOGRAPH BV HAROLD WHITE, F.I.B.P., ON VIEW AT THE INSTITUTE OF BRITISH PHOTOGRAPHERS* EXHIBITION, 49, GORDON SQUARE, W.C.I. ...