... : 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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... . 44 Is it real?'* Young seavac.uees from London meet one of Australia's koalas, or Teddy Bears, in the Healesville sanctuary, and find it difficult to believe in. Did you really have to wear them Patricia and Elsie Pallis give a demonstration of gas-mask drill to their cousins, Doreen Jacobs and Anita Pallis. 44 And Melbourne *s here Elsie and Patricia Pallis have a lesson in the geography of ...

... . LADY ALEXANDRA METCALFE, daughter of the late Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, CAPTAIN M. WARDELL and MISS PEGGY HAMILTON. MRS. LOVEDAY left in a fur coat and cap) with the DUCHESS OF NORFOLK. LADY HELENA HILTON GREEN and MAJOR MITCHELL in consultation as the numbers go up. The HON. SHEILA DIGBY, daughter of I.or d and Lady Digby, with MR. Y. FITZHERBERT. MR. INNES and the HON. MRS. INNES. She ...

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- THE OFFICER ON THE RIGHT for being the first Burmese to get a commission in the Fighter Command's Burma Squadron, R.A.F. Squadron-Leader Stanford Tuck, its leader kneeling left centre shot down his 27th German plane last week. MR. HAROLD JUDD for using the Ministry of Supply as a place of entertainment for H amp stead' s dust-women. LADY MAUREEN STANLEY and MISS EVELYN ...

... MRS. BEATRICE RATHBONE, who has succeeded her husband, Flight Lieutenant John Rathbone killed in action as Conservative Member for Bodmin, is the second American-born woman to enter the House of Commons. She is the fourteenth ivonjan Member in the present Parliament, and will be introduced by the Chief Whip and Mr. A. C. Bossom, an old friend of the Rathbone family, who has many ties with the ...

... . r LADY MARY BERRY, FLIGHT LIEUT, the HON. LANGTON and MRS. ILIFFE and LIEUT. MICHAEL RENSHAW (I. to r.) at the wedding of Lord Hunlly and the Hon. Pamela Berry. CORPORAL HAROLD SIMS, M.M., decorated at a recent Investiture is the first American serving with the British to win an award in this war. He received his M.M. for gallantry at Dunkirk. LORD KEMSLEY. father of Lord Huntly's bride, ...

... THE ART OF MISUSING EGGS L NINA LEEN LOOTS THE LARDER. I A scene of pity and terror: six eggs, praying, doomed and forlorn, watch their comrade frying. I An unfortunate love-affair she is set on a pinnacle, and he has fallen down. Of unsound mind? An egg his hair standing on end, views a comrade who has committed felo de sc. A little hoy and girl are at play with their boat in a spacious pan ...

... . APPLICANTS FOR HOUSEHOLD EQUIPMENT, WITH (at back, 1. to r.) the. HON. MRS. JACK CRAWSHAY, MISS DOROTHY DICKSON, and LADY ELEANOR SMITH. The HON. MRS. JACK CRAWSIIAY (left), CHAIRMAN OF REFUGEES OF ENGLAND, will! LADY ELEANOR SMITH AMONG THE DUSTBINS WHICH WAIT FOR DISTRIBUTION. rHOTOGRAPHS B' 1L BEATON. Refugees of England London, under the chairmanship of the Hon. Mrs. Jack Ctawshay, ...

... . Wife of the Minister of Agriculture MRS. ROBERT HUDSON is one of those who devote their services in the tragic areas where homes are bombed and belongings lost. This scene in the East End is typical of many other depots where hundreds of articles of clothing and other comforts and necessities are distributed to homeless people Mrs. Robert Hudson, who is a member of the Women's Voluntary ...

... . 44 VICTORY, the screen play by John L. Balderston, based on the novel by Joseph Conrad, is the new Paramount picture due at the Plaza on March 28. The hero, Heyst, is a philosopher who lives on the island of Sanburan, proud of his detachment from all human emotion. He disdains to clear his name when his partner absconds with the last funds of the bankrupt business, and when the Makanoff ...