... AEROBATICS WITHOUT BOMBS I AIR activity has an ugly and menacing sound to those who inhabit target areas for enemy bombers, but these photographs of graceful aerobatics are entirely pacific, for they illustrate the skill and grace of MISS DENISE NEW MAN, seventeen-year-old Girl Diving Champion of India, who ranks second only to Miss Betty Slade, Champion of England. They were taken in India, ...

... - ONCE before we hatted MR. THOMAS ALDERSON, of Bridbngton, when he was awarded the first George Cross for 44 sustained gallantry, enterprise and devotion to duty during enemy air raids, as detachment leader of rescue parties. Now that he has received this the first 44 civilian V.C. from the King's hands, we do it a^ain. THE AFRICAN of the Middle East shown in our photograph has very decided ...

... . Many of our aircraft carry crests and mottoes unknown to the College of Arms, devised by the pilots and unofficially adopted. The WINGED LEMON on a Wellington bomber which has been operating out East has the motto Let us purge the blue skies The key to the signi ficance of the various emblems lies in the names of the members of the crew. Right: This STORK BADGE is painted on the nose of a ...

... WEDDINGS, ENGAGEMENTS, SOCI /ents and notable personalities. H.E. THE GOVERNOR OF BOMBAY and LADY LUMLEY (left) and the DUCHESS OF ROXBURGHE went to the Bombay races on Eclipse Stakes Day. Behind are two of the daughters of the Governor of Madras, Captain the Hon. Sir Arthur Hope. i P.T. is an important part of the training of A.T.S. girls. Here they are enjoying a tug-of-war and pulling ...

... SHEPHARD'S PIE UNRATIONED COMES BACK TO THE PRINCES THEATRE. ARTHUR RISCOE (left) and BOBBY HOWES as guests in a night-club in Seeing Life one of the scenes of Shephard's Pie. FRANK LEIGHTON as the Policeman with Another Guest (RICHARD HEARNE) fishing for champagne in Seeing Ifife. Will you keep that date in Piccadilly Circus ANN COVENTRY and FRANK LEIGHTON, with the chorus. LES GIRLS, ...

... TAKING A FIRE-FIGHTING DEGREE AT OXFOR[ nidergraduate a.f.s. amid the dreaming spires. A roof crawl at fire-fighting practice by two undergraduates of Balliol. Right Other Oxford men climbed the towers for wagers to-day the A.F.S. scale them for rescue practice. In to study and out to fire practice a group of present-day Oxford undergraduates. Right Oxford undergraduate 1941 a picturesque ...

... CASTING AND MOULDING A 3IRL IN PLASTER: MODEL HELEN AND b *1 HELEN. rPHESE photographs iUustrate some of the steps by which Manikin Helen was X cast and moulded from Model Helen Johnson, a beautiful American girl. The Greneker Manikin Studios were in search of a super special female for a new master-mould, and as soon as Miss Helen Johnson came in, Peter, the sculptor, nodded and Lillian ...

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... . We 're used to seeing beauty in slacks here 's an example of charm in pantalettes, as the frilly trousers worn under crinolines used to be called. It 's a portrait of MARY MARTIN in her new Paramount picture, 44 KISS THE BOYS GOOD-BYE, which is noiv in production. She ivas recently seen in 44 Love Thy Neighbour, at the Carlton and will appear next in 44 Neiv York Town with Fred MacMurray ...

... . HPHE LADY EVE, new JL Paramount picture (Plaza), is a merry farce by Preston Sturges, author of Down Went McGinty and Christmas in July. HENRY FONDA has the whale of a part as rich, shy, awkward Charles, the zoologist who hunts snakes and is in turn hunted by the mothers of marriageable girls. He falls in love with Jean, daughter of phoney Col Harring ton, and decoy for her father's card ...

... THE PICTURE OF THE YEAR GENTLEMEN, THE ROYAL AIR FORCE I By D. L. MAYS IN RESPONSE TO SO MANY REQUESTS, THIS APPEALING PICTURE, WHICH WAS REPRODUCED IN HOLLY LEAVES, HAS NOW BEEN PUBLISHED IN SEPARATE FORM Special printed copies in full colour on plate sunk chromo art paper. Ready for framing. Size of picture 17 xl2 with I J margin. Price 5/- each, including inland postage. Postage abroad ...

... Cool, Correct, Charming AT last the forage cap, a shape which has always suited women, has been adapted for the A.T.S. In beech brown, piped with green and with a peach-coloured cleft, it makes an attractive finish to the uniform for informal occasions. The outfit above has been tailored by Moss Bros., of King Street, Covent Garden, for an officer in the A.T.S. They have all the correct ...