... . PHOTOGRAPH BY CECIL BEATON. 3 LILY ELSIE had London at her feet in 1907 when she appeared at Daly's as Sonia in Franz Lehar's Viennese musical comedy The Merry Widow and her name is always associated with the role. This is what she looks like to-day slender, decorative and youthful. Miss Elsie retired from the stage on her marriage to Ian Bullough in 1911, but returned in 1915, and tvas last ...

... . A.T.S. girls are given skilled instruction in driving, car maintenance and running re pairs to fit them to take the wheel of staff cars, ambu lances, lorries, and other transport. Here a Captain in the R.A.S.C. is giving volunteers instruction in the rule of the road with the aid of a model which looks like the loveliest toy ever in vented. It is complete with roundabouts, pedestrian cross ...

... HEAVENS A MAN, BY HAROLD WILLIAMSON. The 92nd Exhibition of the New English Art Club has just opened at the Suffolk Street Galleries, and is a most attractive show. It is true that it offers neither sensations nor shocks, but it presents a series of pictures of contemporary life rendered in many instances with poetic realism. There are com paratively fe iv war-pictures, some interesting ...

... BEYOND ALL DEMUR ARRESTINGLY GOOD-LOOKING This new portrait of MISS VIVIEN LEIGH, of G.W.T.W.--or Gone with the Wind has just been completed by David Jagger, and is for her husband, Laurence Olivier. Miss Leigh is on tour with the revival of G. B. Shaw's play The Doctor's Dilemma, in which she plays the leading role of Mrs. Dubedat. G.B.S.'s own description of his character, Mrs. Dubedal, ...

... ANN TODD plavs the important role of Kay Gordon in Michael Balcon's new production, SHIPS WITH WINGS. Kay is in love with Lieut. Stacey, but he falls for Celia Weatherbv. After Stacey's disgrace, Celia marries another pilot, David Grant, and Stacey goes to Palmos in the Mediterranean to run a one-machine air-line. Kay appears with Fields and the German pilot, Wagner, and on the outbreak of ...

... WOMEN IN WARTIME INDISPENSABLE FASHIONS FOR THE WINTER WARDROBE IN CHECK AND PLAIN. SIMPLE indeed are the lines of the dress on the right from Gorringes (Model Gown Department), Bucking ham Palace Road. It is of Glen- quhart check, and as may be seen, has the appearance of a coat and skirt nevertheless, it is a tailored frock whose aspect may be varied by accessories. The. sleeves are inset ...

... The BIRTH of the 8-GUN FIGHTER And Its Development into the World s Deadliest tighter Aircraft AT a time which marks the anniversary of the defeat and final rout of the Luftwaffe in their major daylight attacks upon England of last year, it is fitting that we should remember how much we owe to the Hurricane and Spitfire and the men who designed them and those who worked for the incorporation ...

... I n the British Home Fleet, the Destroyer Depot Ship (see also p. 1 5 1 of this issue) serves as a naval schoolroom, where the future destroyer men are trained in gunnery, torpedo-firing, anti submarine work, seamanship and signalling. Models of ships are used, and the lighting is arranged so as to convey the effects of searchlights, star shells and gun-flashes. By this means the men learn a ...

... A CRISIS IN THE OFFICERS' MESS? The War has Created a Serious Situation Amongst the Wine Dealers and the Repercussions of This are Here Discussed in an Authoritative Article By CHARLES GRAVES NEVER in the history of this country has so little liquor been available to so many. In the last war our Expeditionary Force on the Con tinent was able to live on the land as far as wines and brandy and ...

... AT LORD GORT'S LUNCHEON PARTY IN THE DUKE'S HONOUR From left to right are General Barron-y-Ortez, Spanish Governor of Algeciras, the Marquesa de Povar, the Duke of Gloucester, and Sehora Barron-y-Ortez, taking a stroll after lunch in the garden of Government House, Gibraltar THE DUKE ON THE HIGHEST POINT OF THE ROCK This A.-A. defence post is manned by the Gibraltar Defence Force. It is ...

... COMFORT IN GREY Large Buttons, Pocket Placing:, Rake this Cardig-an Different MATERIALS IO OZ. La Laine 4-ply wool (5 coupons); 6 button moulds; a pair of No. 9 and Non, II needles. MEASUREMENTS Round bust, 36 ins. length, 22 ins. sleeve seam, 18 ins. TENSION 7 sts. and 10 rows to 1 in. THE BACK Cast on 91 sts. with No. 9 needles. I Work the following pat. 1st row. K. 1, p. 1 rib ending k. 1 ...

... Of c Lome cJervice Plenty of women who are living out of touch with shops and hairdressers, or whom war work is keeping too busy for hairdressing and beauty appointments,, are used to the idea of becoming their own hairdresser and mani curist. What some of us are not so sure about is how to run an efficient home service for hair and nails. Beginning with hair, remember that to wash and set ...