... EVEN in wartime, spring still brings the same feeling for new clothes something gay and fresh-looking for the first sunny days. Margaret Marks, of Knightsbridge, has an attractive collection of suits and three-piece outfits. The dress and jacket above, in contrasting colours, are simple and practical, with the tailored look that appears so often in this season's models. For special occasions ...

... ttk^ftermr Smart and slender ising, giving that freedom of action so appreciated by modern women, KONERAY is in deed the skirt of skirts. No other ready made skirt has graduated knife- edge pleats ALL ROUND that taper off into a snug -fitting hip line none is available in so wide a range of quality materials. All good drapers and stores stock the KONERAY Manufacturers C. STILLITZ LEAMINGTON ...

... 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, ...

... . BETTY GRABLE plays Lily Blanc in 20th Century- Fox's new picture, Tin Pan Alley. ALICE FAYE takes the part of Katie Blane in Tin Pan Alley ichich tvas due at the Regal on February 3. _ Tin Pan Alley, new 20th Century-Fox Picture, with Jack Oakic, John Payne, Betty Grable and Alice Faye, was due on Monday last at the Regal. It 's a gay, light-hearted musical picture which offers, to quote ...

... . JESSIE MATTHEWS is Birmingham's principal boy, and plays the title-role in Emile Littler's Aladdin, at the Prince of Wales's Theatre of that city, with grace, gaiety and humour. She 's a delightful dancer and puts her songs over in real pantomime manner. Sonnie Hale is the Widotc Twankey, and the production is both spectacular and full of good fun in classic panto, stvle. PHOTOGRAPH BY H. J ...

... , , BREWED BOTTLED BY MORE POPULAR THAN EVER IN the Mess, in Hotels, Restaurants and Bars no less than in the Home the call is for VC^hitbread s superb P ale Ale. Brewed from British hops and barley; appetising, refreshing, stimu= fating; V^hitbread's superb Pale Ale is more popular than ever. WHITB READ'S PALE ALE LONDON, E.C.I. ...

... . A This new portrait of HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN with her elder daughter H.R.H. PRINCESS ELIZABETH, heir-presumptive to the Throne shows how nearly of a height they now are. The Princess, who is fourteen years of age, and will celebrate her fifteenth birthday on April 21, is growing into a tall, slender girl with a smile which recalls that of her mother. When their Majesties recently visited an ...

... . air MARSHAL W. SHOLTO DOUGLAS, C.B., M.C., D.F.C., was appointed Air Officer Lommanding-in-Chief, Fighter Command, in November last, when, at the special request of the Minister of Aircraft Production, Air Chief-Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding ivho had held the post since July 1936, was seconded to his department for special duty in the United States of America. Our photograph shows Air Marshal W. ...

... happy seavacuee. 3 This happy child has been evacuated to the U.S.A. with her mother, and is here enjoying the peace of a Massachusetts meadow, where no air-raid warnings rend the air, and the sounds of guns or bombs are never heard. The art of being an evacuee, in the U.S.A. calls for a certain amount of tact, for refugee mothers and children are entirely dependent on their kind hosts, since ...

... . I ELSA MAXWELL, hostess who launched many stunt-party fashions, is featured in a series of shorts for Warner Brothers. Here she is in Riding Into Society She *s killed her fox by falling on it. ELSA trains a prize-fighter for a fashionable society milk-fund bout, in The Lady and the Lug, but the boxer proves to be punch- drunk and lazy, so the lady finds herself training harder than he does ...