... !_/ wonder if they'd let me do my own job in the A.T.S. And give me extra training to get me on quickly And would there be any hope of getting a commission fairly soon I wonder if shorthand typists get a chance to keep their speeds up 7 Do the cookery girls really learn catering Why do they want girls who've been trained saleswomen 1 Could I really get into Radiolocation It all sounds too good ...

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... . VIVIEN LEIGH, actress and screen-star, has not been seen on the stage in England since her big picture hits in 44 Gone with the Wind, 44 Waterloo Bridge and 44 Lady Hamilton, so her appearance as Mrs. Dubedat in a revival of George Bernard Shaw's 44 The Doctor's Dilemma is an important theatrical event. She looks radiantly lovely in her costumes of the 1903 era of veils, jabots and much ...

... DAME LAURA KNIGHT'S portrait-group of ASST. SECTION LEADER ELSPETH C. HENDERSON and SERGEANT HELEN E. TURNER is on view at the National Gallery Exhibition of War Pictures. These girls are two of the first three W.A.A.F.'s to win the Military Medal. Asst. Section Leader then Corporal) Henderson and Sergeant Turner were on duty in a building which received a direct hit during a raid. Sergeant ...

... SIMPLE WINTER 1 FASHIONS 1 IN FUR AND TWEEDl WOMEN IN WARTIME IT would be unwise not to invest in furs at the earliest opportunity, as prices are rising rapidly. Coats and their acces sories must be studied on account of their wearing qualities. Natural opossum, of which this coat and hood, on the right, are made, come from Molho, 5b Duke Street, Manchester Square. They may be bought ...

... CHORES OF THE A.T.S.-- AS CARRIED 0 'HE PREMIER'S YOUNGEST DAUGHTER. MISS MARY CHURCHILL, youngest daughter of the Prime Minister and Mrs. Winston Churchill, has joined the A.T.S. She was nine teen on September 15 and joined the Service a few weeks ago. She has been in training at a reception depot in the Southern Command, where these photographs were taken. She has passed [Continued opposite. ...

... HHHE WOOKEY, by Frederick -A. Hazlitt Brennan, recently pro duced at the Plymouth Theatre, New York City, is the play which brings bombed London to the U.S.A., for it is set in dockland in 1939 and 1940 and has been provided with a sound track of genuine bombing noises. Wookey played by EDMUND GWENN, is a tugboat skipper who has risen from garbage to metals and is now master of his own ship. ...

... M.T.C. UNIFORM. ON and Off Duty Clothes were recently shown at Simpsons, Piccadilly. Uniforms and accessories for women in the Services were featured. It seems almost unnecessary to add that great attention had been given to the tailoring and cut. There were a limited number of civilian suits, some with classic and some with Nor folk coats. Again, there were the casual coats for wearing with ...

... . This young English Fighter Pilot, D.F.C. and Bar, is a veteran of the R.A.F., and took part in the Battles of France and of Britain. PHOTOGRAPH BY CECIL BEATON. ...

... . Mrs. H. V. Champion de Crespigny saying good-bye to Polish guests at the end of a visit. SQUADRON LEADER J. BIALY and MRS. CHAMPION DE CRESPIGNY with MRS. S. R. ORSKI and baby MICHELINE ORSKI. MRS. S. R. ORSKI, wife of a Polish R.A.F. officer, her baby daughter MRS. CHAMPION DE CRESPIGNY and SQUADRON LEADER BIALY. MRS. H. V. CHAMPION DE CRESPIGNY and her dog in the grounds of her home Far ...

... . CAROLE RAYE, seventeen- year-old star of 44 Fun and Games, at the Princes Theatre, rehearsing in the garden of her Hampshire home. Another home study of the new dancing and singing star of revue. Running over a song with her mother, MRS. CORK RAYE, the wife of Lieut. -Commander Cork Rave. Chatting with her father, LIEUT.-COMMANDER CORK RAYE, R.N., before going for a gallop on her favourite ...

... . Lydia Kenyon (CLAUDETTE COLBERT) with her ex-husband Tony (RAY MILLAND) in their cottage on Lighthouse Island. Lydia weary of Tony's perpetual big-business enthusiasm, finds that her mild flirtation with divorce lawyer Jim Blake (BRIAN AHERNE) has become serious. Lydia and her two suitors, former husband Tony and slick young lawyer Jim. The latter really prefers a rough life afloat to land ...