... . 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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... - TROOPS in the desert can keep up a high standard of smartness, owing to the enter prise of a native tailor, who car ries on his trade in a tent on the edge of a camp. He can mend a tear or run up a new suit of khaki drill as required. THE first prize in the London Balloon Barrage crews' national allotment com petition was won with vege tables grown from seeds sent over by Mrs. Roosevelt and ...

... . The Shakespeare Folio heirloom in the Gill family, presented by MAJOR E. W. B. GILL, Domestic Bursar of Merlon College, and MRS. GILL to the Library of Congress in Washington, was received at the Foreign Office by MR. R. K. LAW, Parliamentary Under-Secretary. The HON. ANNE YOUNGER, daughter of Viscount Younger of Leckie, is engaged to MR. GEOFFREY ALAN GAVIN, 6th Gurkha Rifles, son of Lieut. ...

... . THEIR MAJESTIES the KING and QUEEN drove from Buckingham Palace to No. 10, Downing Street one day last week, to lunch with the PRIME MINISTER and Mrs. Winston Churchill. They ivent alone, without Equerry or Lady-in- Waiting and though the visit had been kept secret, a crowd assembled in Whitehall and cheered them when they arrived. This admirable snapshot of the Sovereign, his Consort, and ...