... The Delights of Childhood ARE A CHILD'S BIRTHRIGHT Yet there are children, victims of callous indif ference and brutal neglect, to whom real happiness is a hollow mockery. Since the N.S.P.C.C. began its work 56 years ago more than 5,000,000 such children have been rescued from a life of misery and ill-treatment. Children are still being made to suffer to-day. We still have to fight that most ...

... YOUTH AND PEP BY FRED AND PAULETTE. FRED ASTAIRE, the King of Dance has a new Queen in Paramount' s 44 SECOND CHORUS, which is due at the Plaza on April 11. Fred plays college band leader Danny O'Neil, PAULETTE GODDARD is ex-secretary dancer Ellen Miller and in our still they are shown xvith BURGESS MEREDITH (right), who makes his comedy debut in this picture as Hank Taylor. He will be ...

... . When FLIGHT SERGEANT HARRY KING, R.A.F., went to the Investiture to receive his B.E.M. his little son HARRY, came too, in leading strings. When the CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER, SIR KINGSLEY WOOD. set out for the House on Budget Day, LADY WOOD made sure that the fastenings of the box containing his secrets were secure. j i MR. VINCENT MASSEY presented the Massey Trophy to the captain of the ...

... . CLARK GABLE and HEDY LAMARR have splendid parts in 44 COMRADE X, the Russian spy picture due at the Empire last week. Here they are in a love-scene sequence of this exciting film, full of secret police intrigue, murder blackmail, and escape from the death cell combined with a good spice of romance. ...

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- TRe MEMBERS OF THE RICHMOND GOLF CLUB For Being blitzed. into making newkatards. RICHMOND GOLF CLUB. Temporary Rules, 1940. 1. Players are asked to collect Bomb and Shrapnel splinters to save these causihg damage to the mowing machines. 2. In Competitions, during gunfire, or while homhs are falling, players may take cover without penalty for ceasing play. 3. The ...

... r-- . These DRESSMAKER'S DUMMIES may not look glamorous, but each has been made to the measurements of a star, for they are properties of the wardrobe department at Warner Brothers Studio and are used to fit screen clothes for famous actresses. Bette Davis's dummy is lying on the table. This platoon of star busts includes those representing Mary Brodell Pat Lane, Bette Davis, May Robson and ...

... PERSONALITIES- ACTUAL AND PICTORIAL AT THE LAVERY SHOW. MISS FRANCES CLARE and MR. EUGENE DICKERS, the Belgian baritone. MISS THELMA CAZALET, M.P., this year's buyer for the Contemporary Art Society. PAVLOVA AS THE DYING SWAN, 1912; by the late Sir John Lavery, R.A. The DOWAGER LADY SWAYTHLING looks at Sir John Lavery and Shirley Temple 1936. THE COUNTESS OF OXFORD AND ASQUITH, 1932 by the ...

... HOW TO PUT YOUR GAS-MASK ON-- BY THE PREMIER'S DAUGHTER. Position' one put the thumbs under the head-harness. Position two from another angle. Position two mash held up and chin well forward. m Position three how to draw the straps bach over the head. _ ]y[ISS SARAII CHURCHILL, in private life Mrs. Vic. Oliver, second daughter of the Prime Minister and Mrs. Winston Churchill, is here giving a ...

... WOMEN IN WARTIME THIS SPRING MANY women, who no longer have time to play games, are finding sports clothes a practical answer to the problem of what to wear for war work out of uniform. Lillywhites, of Piccadilly Circus, have an attractive collection of simple frocks in light-weight woollen materials, including the model above. This has a yoked action back, triangular pocket flaps, and a belt ...

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

... OUR PRINCESS-- 15 YEARS OLD THIS WEEK. H.R.H. PRINCESS ELIZABETH, elder daughter of the King and Queen and heir-presumptive to the Throne celebrated her fifteenth birthday on April 21. She and her sister, Princess Margaret, spend as much time with their parents as war conditions allow, and recently visited an R.A.F. Coastal Command station with them. Their wartime activities include growing ...

... . W. C. FIELDS, as Egbert Souse, in The Bank Detective instructing his leading players, Francois (REED HADLEY) and Miss Plupp (HEATHER WILDE), on the Tel- Avis picture he is to direct. Egbert accidentally captures Wildcat McNasty (AL HILL), who has tripped over his feet when trying to escape. Egbert has heroism thrust upon him again for having unintentionally caught a second bank robber I 'HE ...