... WOMEN IN WARTIME Home Command SffiK W 4 1 SMALL women naturally prefer clothes designed especially for them to cut-down versions of average fashions. They will be interested in the department at Debenham and Freebody, Wigmore Street, which specialises in individual models planned at all points to flatter the small figure. One of their outfits is shown above, in softly blended shades of pink ...

... FANCIED AS AMERICA'S No. 1 GIRL i FOR 1941. 1 A JINX FALKENBURG is the leading candidate for the title of America's No. 1 Girl for 1941. In retrospect one can list up 44 No. 1 Girls in the U.S.A. as far back as the days of Jenny Lind, but only within the last five years has a No. 1 Girl emerged as an annual phenomenon, never deliberately chosen, but appearing through a spontaneous canonisation ...

... . The figures a-top the barren rock are an ESCAPED GERMAN U-BOAT CREW in Canada. The rock will look more remote and craggy when seen on the screen. 44 Grasp the phone like this snatch it frantically. There 's a man menacing you with a bayonet DIRECTOR MICHAEL POWELL acts his instructions. Author EINERICH PRESSBURGER has a chat with leading-man LAURENCE OLIVIER on the set during the shooting of ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. IMMORTAL EASE is the story of a femme fatale who did not enjoy her rôle. Victoria Rising was a poet and a very beautiful woman. She married two men and tired of them; a third, after a short time spent in her society, painted her portrait in a novel called The Ice- Cold Heart, and then com mitted suicide; but the fourth, Lloyd, the man who was in her life from the start, ...

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... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO-- THE LUPINOS, for fcd„3 th Royal Family of C,.sp^ and in four hundred years travelling from the stocks to the stars. LUPINOS AND LANES AND BRITANNIA HOXTON TRADITION. Traditional clown JOSEPH GRIMALDI, Drury Lane, 1795. Tradition carried on GEORGE LUPINO as a clown, Drury Lane, 1912. Seventeenth-century French Punchinello, which, as a puppet show, was brought to England ...

... WEDDINGS, ENGAGEMENTS, RACING, AND U.S.A. AID TO THE ALLIES The HON. JEAN WILLIAMSON, only daughter of Lord and Lady Forres of Gleno- gil Lodge, Angus, is engaged to Fit. Lieut. Longmore, son of Air Chief-Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore. FLT. LT. W. J. LONGMORE, R.A.F., son of Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore, C.-in-C. R.A.F., Middle East is engaged to the Hon. Jean Williamson. Right LADY ...

... . FRED ASTAIRE, famous screen dancer, has a home in Beverly Hills, but spends much of each year at Aiken, S.C., where his wife's uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Worthington Bull, own a large and charming estate. Here Fred Astaire plotted his routines for his forthcoming picture, 44 Second Chorus, and recently repeated them and gave some new ones for the benefit of Life's photographer, ...

... THE MAN I MARRIED WITH JOAN BENNETT AND FRANCIS LEDERER. Carol (JOAN BENNETT) and Eric (FRANCIS LEDERER) arrive in Germany with their son, Rickey (JOHNNY RUSSELL). Eric is a German-American revisiting his old country. Frieda (ANNA STEN), the Nazi girl, provokes a quarrel between Eric and Carol. Carol seeks counsel and help from the American Embassy and meets Kenneth Delane (LLOYD NOLAN). ...

... . MRS. RONALD CROSS, wife of the Minister of Shipping, had the excellent idea of organising a show of British-designed hats at the Ritz Hotel in aid of the Comforts Fund for the Merchant Navy. Half the price of each hat sold was devoted to the cause. MISS JACQUELINE CRAVEN wearing a royal blue coque-feather toque, with a chiffon shawl scarf to match. Left LADY MARGUERITE STRICKLAND adjusting ...

... - TROOPS in the desert can keep up a high standard of smartness, owing to the enter prise of a native tailor, who car ries on his trade in a tent on the edge of a camp. He can mend a tear or run up a new suit of khaki drill as required. THE first prize in the London Balloon Barrage crews' national allotment com petition was won with vege tables grown from seeds sent over by Mrs. Roosevelt and ...

... . The Shakespeare Folio heirloom in the Gill family, presented by MAJOR E. W. B. GILL, Domestic Bursar of Merlon College, and MRS. GILL to the Library of Congress in Washington, was received at the Foreign Office by MR. R. K. LAW, Parliamentary Under-Secretary. The HON. ANNE YOUNGER, daughter of Viscount Younger of Leckie, is engaged to MR. GEOFFREY ALAN GAVIN, 6th Gurkha Rifles, son of Lieut. ...