... 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 ...

... . THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED, the new RKO Radio adaptation of the late Sidney Howard'1 s Pulitzer Prize play, comes to the Plaza on January 3. CHARLES LAUGHTON plays Tony, stout, rich, plain and lovable Californian vine-grower. CAROLE LOMBARD is the lovely penurious waitress. She is having a painful scene with her enraged landlady, RICCA ALLEN. Her financial troubles induce her to accept ...

... NEW year needs AT HOME AND OH SERVICE f the h*eW YSfT material f°r H^v>^^S£|Slf SS there should he n one uniform and a- .=e appremate Covent Garden. every detail. and as they lete your King -f iw cut and correct m isingly short can easily pUcation. beautifully cur in a sur d sbirts, y sent on ayp of the women g 5 Eluding g£ *gj prices, v,ould rigblaCArSstrated booklet, 1 outfit. An WOMEN B \N ...

... . MARJORIE MATLIN, PHYLLIS HILL and PAULINE KAYE might be described as winged slippers of a Corps de Ballet Command, for, as our photographs show, they can certainly fly through the air in close formation They are dancers of the Radio City Music Hall, (photographs by cosmo-sii.eo.) ...

... RUSSIAN BALLET IN BUCKS: FUTURE DANCERS \RT1STS AND DESIGNERS AT WORK AND PLAY. 1,1 The coryphees and the budgerigars a bcdUt^sUhouM^fy^he^wijidow^j The creative urge satisfied a hoy pupil at work on a stage puppet. Leaping for the ring exercise for grace and poise. Y Above, left MADAME NADINE NICOLAEVA-LEGAT taking an al fresco class in the pale winter sunshine. The class practising before a ...

... - CORPOR AL JOSEPHINE M. G. ROBINS, W.A.A.F., is the third member of this women's service to be awarded the Military Medal. She displayed courage and coolness of a very high order when a dug-out in which she was shel tering received a direct hit. Despite dust and fumes, she gave first aid to the wounded, then fetched a stretcher and stayed with them until they were evacuated. When discussing ...

... A victorious New Year to us all This is the wish we voice on the first of January 1941 and this joyous and confident young dancer expresses the spirit of freedom and vitality which will help us to win. She is Marjorie Mallin, of the Radio City Music Hall Corps de Ballet America's only resident ballet ensemble. PHOTOGRAPH BY COSMO-SILEO. ...

... . These beautiful studies are taken from the fine set of thirty-two pictures by JASON just published by Chapman and Hall in the volume BLONDE AND BRUNETTE. They were made to illustrate the contrast between the typical English type of the blonde models, and the almost Hawaiian and French types of the brunettes. J5KMESiSB mm LIP SERVICE. ELEVENSES. WATER BABY. BEAUTY AT THE PROW. ...