... ONE SITTER PRESENTED WITH VARIETY. The infinite variety which the camera-artist can uchieve by means of difference in costume, background and pose is well illustrated by this quartet of photographic studies of a very attractive young sitter, MRS. BUSTER TONGE, the wife of Flight- Lieutenant Tonge, of the Fleet Air Arm. Mrs. Tonge was Miss Bat Barr. PHOTOGRAPHS BY CECIL BEATON. ...

... BUDGET OF PLEASANT EVENTS: STABLE PEOPLE ON OFF-DUTY OCCASIONS. MAJOR J. P. ARCHER-SHEE, 10th Royal Hussars, son of the late Colonel _ Sir Martin Archer-Shee, married MISS HENRIETTA MARY STAPLE^W^ BRETHERTON, daughter of the late Mai or F. B. Stavleton-Bretherton. a^B Members oj the ANGLO-AMERICAN AMBULANCE UNIT, which is doing splendid service in the bombed areas, have found lime to form ...

... . MISS ETHEL GABAIN (Mrs. John Copley) is here seen at work in her studio on one of the tear pictures which she is making for the Ministry of Information. The still-life group of A.R.P. clothing and gas-masks is carefully arranged. Outside a much-damaged house she talked to Airs. Merritt, who had been bombed out of her home. Left The, artist has made a number of sketches of ruined houses in ...

... . The pose of this lovely model suggests an Eastern idol, but her radiantly fair beauty of ivory and gold is typically English. The camera-study is one of the thirty-two by JASON in his recently published volume Blonde and Brunette. ...

... DOROTHY DICKSON, one of the principals of Farjeon's successful wartime revue Diversion, at Wyndham i, is one of the top numbers in the new edition DIVERSION 2, which is due to-day, January 1, 1941. It will help all who are lucky enough to attend the first performance to greet the New Year with plenty OJ laughter. Miss Dickson's successful songs in the original edition included her now-famous ...

... . LIEUT. -COLONEL J. T. C. MOORE-BRABAZON, P.C., M.C., M.P., became Minister of Transport iri October. His Free Lifts scheme, under which motorists receive an extra ration of petrol if able to help neighbours by driving them to and from their London offices, has proved a big success. He is a pioneer motorist and aviator, a great Cresta rider, and a golfer. He won the Circuit des Ardennes motor ...

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- HOW TO BE STARCHY AND HOW TO UNBEND- BY CAROLE LOMBARD AND ROBERT MONTGOMERY. y 1 1 THE SQUADRON COMMANDER on the left of this group of pilots for taking the Christmas cake, for his Messerschmitt hat-trick. LIEUT. DON BRADMAN-- for getting two pips and a duck in the same year. Left MR. KRUGER GRAY for being the designer of the King's own Cross and Medal. Right THESE ...

... PRINCIPAL GIRL FOR MOTHER GOOSE. Q LOIS DAVIS is Jill, the principal girl for Prince Hitler's pantomime, Mother Goose, produced at Streatham Hill on December 26 for a four-weeks season. Stanley Lupino plays the title-rSle, and Hal Bryan is Idle Jack while Jean Carr is Colin and Marian Gerth Gretchen. London's other Pantos, are, Aladdin at the Coliseum, and at Golders Green and Mother Goose ...

... A PICTORIAL RECORD OF GILRERT SULLIVAN OPERAS A PICTORIAL RECORD OF GILRERT SULLIVAN OPERAS iiis 48-page pictorial record of the Gilbert and Sullivan ieras, published by THE SPHERE, deals com. ehensively with the most popular of the famous Operas, il the new stars, as well as the established favour. >es, are featured in their own particidar roles and MANY AGES IN FULL COLOUR SHOWING SCENERY ...

... ONE could not wonder at any rate, nobody did wonder that Cheng should have been smitten by Rosie, since Rosie was a rare item in the London scene. One can go about London all day for a week and seldom see a living creature. Millions of animated phantoms pass along, but only when one of the Rosies flashes by does one realise the meaning of being alive. Rosie was unmistakably alive. She was ...

... . This remarkable study in military concentration shotvs a soldier of a coastal defence battery of the R.A. the boys who are on the look-out to stop this invasion carrying out an extremely delicate piece of work. He is making a trifling though necessary, alteration to his can-can knickers before appear ing in a show in aid of local charities. The dresses for this particular entertainment were ...

... BRITISH woollens, always the mainstay of our great textile tradition, are adapting themselves to wartime con ditions. New lightweight wor steds and fine wool meshes are being woven in Scottish mills for the overseas market. Cum berland is producing its typical multi-coloured check tweeds in new spring shades, and Wales suggests using striped Welsh flannel shirting for summer tailormades. This ...