... . 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 ROYAL ACADEMY OF DRAMATIC ART are carrying on with the work of training embryo stage stars, though their building suffered severely in raids. The large theatre was completely destroyed, but students are using part of the badly scarred premises and Shake speare, miming* elocution, voice production, and other classes go on. Miss Beatrice Wilson directing an ACTING CLASS in the little ...

... . MISS ANN MASON, only daughter of Colonel the Hon. and Mrs. G. K. M. Mason, is engaged to Sub Lieut. Godfrey Woodbine Parish, R.N. V.R., Fleet Air Arm. mm mtmmmmmmi MR. LESLIE HENSON was best man at the marriage of MISS YVONNE ORTNER and MR. RICHARD HEARNE, both of 44 Fun and Games He stole a kiss from the bride. 44 SALLY is a worker at a munitions factory, but when the day's work is done she ...

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... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. WITH due respect to its stars, Claudette Col bert, Ray Milland and Brian Aherne, I would say that SKY LARK (Plaza) owes its chief success to Walter Abel. Come to think of it, a lot of films have owed a lot of their success to Walter Abel. Again and again this clever stage-actor has appeared in character parts that covered weaknesses of plot and lack of distinction in the ...

... FLEET AIR ARM IN ACTION: SHIPS WITH WINGS. Ships with wings, due at the Gaumont, Haymarket, ou November 9, shows us the Fleet Air Arm in action. Many of the scenes were taken on board an aircraft-carrier, and officers and men of the Fleet Air Arm co operated in the thrilling active- service sequences. The controversy over the use of big guns or big 'planes in war provides drama, and the ...

... THE WESTERN DESERT BLOSSOMS WITH LONDON- VARIETIES. AN EXCELLENT programme of vaudeville recently arrived in the Middle East in order to make the desert blossom with entertainment for troops in camp. The show is known as London Varieties of 1941, and is one of the E.N.S.A. companies of the entertainments branch of the N.A.A.F.I. Alice Delysia tops the bill, and numbers are given by many ...