... , Fire-fighting in the classic tu-tu, or ballet skirt: gas-masked embryo ballerinas at stirrup-pump drill. Left Claudie Leonard at work brightening the black-out curtains at Loddington Hall with gay peasant-dance scenes. One boy among eighty girls Ten-year- old John Gilpin painting a toy house while a group of ballerinas knit. J Right Shadow show of I future ballerinas a class of pupils ...

... THE GYM. WAY BACK TO HEALTH: RAF. REHABILITATION. The R.A.F. officers who have just paused in the middle of a game of basket baU are 44 playing themselves back to health 44 in the 44 gym. 44 at an Officers 4 Convalescent Hospital which specialises in the most modern methods of 44 rehabilitation 44 of battle casualties. This R.A.F. officer is not operating some secret and important engine ...

... . This dancing study with a young ballerina sur les pointes looking up at a group of coryphees posed on the steps of a fine caned staircase might well be a new ballet divertissement. It is actually a real-life picture of Joan Bowser, one of the pupils of the Cone-Ripman School of Dancing, practising a ballet pose in front of six other admiring students before going to bed. The dancing school ...

... . The PRIME MINISTER, Chancellor of Bristol University t conferred honorary degrees upon MR. MENZIES (left), the I Australian Premier and MR. WINANT, I the American Ambassador (right), I at Bristol. Right H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT I inspected a collection of models being I sent to the United States by the Export Group of the Federation of British Industries. CAPTAIN GERALD OSBORNE, the Black ...

... NAZI -RULE HORROR OF SO ENDS OUR NIGHT. y A, ■■Mil ■Iji I vi ..HHra- iT^liCrwSk Ludivig Kern (GLENN FORD) and Ruth Holland (MARGARET SULLAVAN) play the political refugee and the girl who loves him in So Ends Our Night, the new anti-Nazi film Josef Steiner (FREDRIC MARCH), former German Army officer, faces the dread Gestapo Colonel (FREDRIK VOGEDING). Josef Steiner (FREDRIC MARCH) in the ...

... HIGHLIGHTS OF LADY IN THE DARK: GERTRUDE LAWRENCE AT THE ALTAR, DREAMING, AND IN THE BIG TOP. Liza (GERTRUDE LAWRENCE right has a dream flash-back to schooldays and hears the Mapleton High Choral sung by High School graduates. Left: Liza's Circus with GERTRUDE LAWRENCE as the proprietor. The ringmaster and .ensemble are singing The Greatest Show on Earth in the circus lent, or 44 Big Top. ...

... Suiting The Season SUITS with a difference are being shown by Simpsons, of Piccadilly. One thing, however, they have in common, and that is expert tailoring. The model ahove is beautifully cut in a hard-wearing black material, with this spring's longer jacket and deeply-pleated skirt. An individual touch is given by the buttons, stamped like ancient coins, one of them worn as a fob with a long ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...