... 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 ...

... SHE jd[f INTO THE WALLPAPER Everybody knows her, the sort of woman who is so completely nondescript that wherever she is, she just fades into the wallpaper. You will find it hard to build up a picture of her because she is the woman whose name you never remember, whose age you never bother to guess, whose eyes you never know the colour of, whose hair is just a nebulous and unpolished frame for ...

... Authoress at Home Edna Ferber An enviable person, this Edna Ferber, since she has lived every possible moment of her fifty-three years. And with that has made a large, probably permanent, place for herself in American literature. Her autobiography A Peculiar Treasure published two years ago, painted her life story on the same broad canvas she has used for her novels the vivid, eventful Jewish ...

... The Tatler and Bystander in Town and Country By Bridget Chetwynd Hurrah for Canada THE famous Overseas luncheons achieved a Christmas climax with the one to the Canadian forces. Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Eden were there: he spoke charm ingly. So did Major-General Creerar, Chief of Canadian General Staff, and Captain Lord Lloyd was there, Baron von Asbech (Holland), Lord Bessborough, Lord and Lady ...

... Three New Films Drama and Musical Romance from Hollywood, Fantasy from Denham The Return of Frank James 99 is a hind of sequel to the story of Jesse James already filmed. Henry Fonda (centre) plays Frank James, who goes after the two Fords to avenge his brother's murder. Jackie Cooper plays young Clem, Gene Tierney is a pretty reporter who helps Frank. Darryl F. Zanuck produced this ...

... Trick Photography in The Thief of Bagdad Hero is Prince Ahmad, who loves the Princess and rescues her with the help of the young Thief of Bagdad (Sabu). Here the blinded Prince is with the Princess's malicious maid, Halima who helps the Grand Vizier ivith his plots. John Justin, a iCorda discovery for whom great things are prophesied, is the Prince, and Mary Morris is Halima The Thief of ...

... THE HIGHWAY OF FASHION By M. E. BROOKE Winter favourites are the house frocks at Harrods, Knightsbridge. Generally speaking, the skirts are full, while the sashes may be draped in a variety of ways to suit the wearer. All-wool tartan makes the model above. It buttons down the front and is arranged with clever pockets, which are useful as well as decorative. Rivals to this affair are the ...

... Lord Halifax for U asliiagton By Foresight To many of us Lord Halifax appeared from the start the obvious choice as British Ambassador to Washington in succession to the Marquess of Lothian. We could, after all, pay no greater compliment to the United States than to send as our representative the man who has directed the foreign policy of the whole Empire, first in the attempt to avoid war, ...