... 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. ...

... . MIKI HOOD was one of the artists who appeared at a special slap-up Christmas show organised by young Jimmy Woolf, son of C. M. Woolf for his R.A.F. buddies at a camp in England. In the front row of the stalls a satisfied group j including WING-COM MANDER WARDMAN, AIR MARSHAL BARRETT and AIR COMMODORE COLE- HAMILTON. Right CAROL LYNNE singing at the mike during the performance which ivas ...

... , JEAN FORBES-ROBERTSON in her original idle of Helen Pettigreic, the girl who falls in love with a modern man who has 44 stepped back into the eighteenth century. Helen Pettigrew gazes into the eyes of Peter Standish, and realises that by some strange magic he is a man who has strayed into her life from the future. Mr. Throssel (TARVER PENNA), terrified by the strange stories which Peter ...

... THE RAF. OUT OF THE BLUE AT CAMBRIDGE. 44 OUT OF THE BLUE, in aid of R.A.F. charities at the Arts Theatre, Cambridge. PILOT OFFICER WATERALL better known as Ronnie Waters sang 44 You Should See Me Dance the Polka. with an Edwardian Beauty Chorus. A Ballet Divertissement by A.C.'S IRISH, RAMSEY, THOMPSON, SMITH, WISEMAN and MAYGOTHLING was one of the numbers in the show which was devised ...

... . 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 ...

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... 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 ...