... . MONSIEUR ANDRE MAUROIS, the French author icho understands the English-speaking peoples so well, is in New York. He recently contributed an article to the American paper Life, in which he put the case for France. He said The other day a British 1 plane came over Paris and in letters of white smoke wrote in the sky the word Courage.' In the streets the men and women looked up, and as the ...

... . MR. and MRS. JACK OAKIE dancing. LORETTA YOUNG partners JAMES STEWART. IS CLAUDETTE COLBERT a* supper with CESAR ROMERO. MR. and MRS. DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JNR., preetinp friends. Lovely ANNABELLA and her husband TYRONE POWER. RANDOLPH SCOTT dancing with Queen of the Ice SONJA HENIE. ANN SHERIDAN and CESAR ROMERO. B ROBERT RICHIE, DOLORES DEL RIO and MRS. JACK OAKIE. SOCIAL life in Holly wood ...

... POINTS FROM THE SPRING COLLECTIONS WOMEN IN WARTIME SUITS. They go anywhere, do anything, and in wartime are the mainstay of a wardrobe. Jaeger, 204, Regent Street, who in some subtle way make even their classic suits look individual, have an attractive spring collection. Their model above has the longer, wrist-length jacket, with two flap pockets, worn over a plain skirt. They have gay tweeds ...

... : When FLORENCE DESMOND gave autographs at the War Weapons Exhibition held at a London store to encourage war saving, she used a camera from an enemy ''plane as a writing-desk. MR. ANTHONY J. DREXELL BIDDLE, JUN., the United Stales Minister to Exiled Governments in London, has arrived. Fie was U.S. Minister to Poland at the time of the invasion, and continued en poste at Angers. MR. AVERELL ...

... . PHYLLIS CALVERT plays Ann, the heroine of Wells' famous story 44 Kipps, in the screen version, with Michael Redgrave in the title-role. Ann, it will be remembered, is Kipps's childhood's sweetheart, and when they meet again she is a domestic servant in his rich fiancee's house. He jilts the society girl, Helen, and elopes with the parlourmaid, Ann. PHOTOGRAPH BY CECIL BEATON. ...

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... - MOUSTACHES are allowed in the Army and the R.A.F. but 110 I beards, except one that owned by WING COMMANDER GASKELL- BLACKBURN, who obtained special I permission to wear it. MISS EVELYN HARMER, who at the age of sixteen has been awarded the British Empire Medal, is a telephone operator who was employed by a South ampton coal company. During an intense daylight air raid she remained on duty. ...

... MISS CLAIRE LUCE led Canadian soldiers in Manning Sherwin's song 44 When Eagles Fly dedicated to the R.A.F.'s Eagle Squadron, when she broadcast to the U.S.A. from the Eagle Club. The HON. AUDREY PAGET, third daughter of Lord Queenborough, is a member of the Mechanised Transport Corps, which is doing such splendid voluntary work in London and the provinces. The engagement of FLIGHT LIEUT. ...

... . LORD OGILVY, son and heir of the Earl of Airlie. wearing Highland dress, gave a Cull den Moor song at the Children's Concert at Cortachy in aid of war-wounded. L r r r rr n -_aa rrrrrrrrrrrnn r r r i I r DR. PATRICK E)ENNIS SPENCE, R.A.F., of Queenstown, South Africa a the well-known lawn-tennis player, married MISS JOYCE VALERIE ROBSON at the Church of the Sacred Heart, Shejfield. ...

... M Here \s a very amusing family group showing LADY DAVID DOUGLAS-HAMILTON and her son, HUGH DIARMID DOUGLAS-HAMILTON, at home. The baby clutches his toes as infants of his age always do, and his mother formerly Prunella Stack, the keep-fit girl is showing him that she can do it too and rather better than he can Lord David Douglas-IIamilton is the youngest brother of the Duke of Hamilton and ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. ALTHOUGH you may have your own private opinions about the sanity of many of the heroines you see on the screen, you will agree, I think, that it's a long time since we saw a beau tiful girl go really mad, quite ha-ha-ha loony, in pictures. Such, however, is the edifying spectacle that little Ida Lupino presents us with in THE ROAD TO 'FRISCO (Warner), and it is startling ...

... AN ARTIST VIEWS THE COUNTRY SIDE IN WARTIME. Feliks topolski, the brilliant artist whose pencil has been recording various aspects of wartime life in this country, here gives his im pressions of a rural scene. The sketches on this page and the facing one were made at the home of Major Victor Cazalet, M.C., who has been Con servative member for Chippenham since 1924, I and was formerly Pai- i ...