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... - THESE CHIEFS OF THE WOMEN'S SERVICES, for leading the women of Great Britain and the Free French Forces at a time when never before has so much been expected of so many of them. MRS. VERA LAUGHTON MATHEWS, M.B.E., is Director of the Women's Royal Naval Service holding a rank equivalent to that of a Rear- Admiral in the Royal Navy. CHIEF CONTROLLER JEAN KNOX is head of the Auxiliary ...

... INSIDE THE WORLD'S LARGEST BOMBER: m ZORINA VIEWS THE DOUGLAS B-19. Left ZORINA tries to test the tyre pressure with her fingers The retractable landing jjjggS wheels weigh 2363 lb. each. LEAVING CREW QUARTERS, Zorina titles forward. The big hole on the right leads to one of the bomb bays. THESE photographs are the first pictures evJ 44 B-19, the biggest bomber in the \s dancing star of ...

... SUNDAY WITH THE STARS AT AN R.A.F. STATION. ISABEL JEANS in her amusing number Captain Eversleigh by Herbert Farjeon. ELIZABETH WELCH and F/0 HANSEN, D.F.C., G.M., talking to MRS. CARPENTER, the mother of P/O Freddie Carpenter. He teas known in peacetime as the brilliant dancer and choreographer. Right HERMIONE GINGOLD, F/0 WATERS, the producer and ISABEL JEANS with BEATRICE LILLIE (Lady Peel) ...

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... HERBERT TERRY SONS, Ltd HERBERT TERRY SONS, Ltd., Sotrtf but there are not enough of these fouj&poite Lamps to go round now W E apologise for the shortage of Anglepoise Lamps the marvellous 1,001-angle lamps which made life so easy in pre-war days. We dislike having to dis appoint our many friends, but war's stern necessity k compels us to do so. I But the Anglepoise that marvellous 1,001 ...

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- IHESE CALIFORNIAN VEN USES, for proving transcendental curves to be a matter of pure geometry. The coritour testers of Venice, California, use the Figure-ometer to record the outline of HELENA BR1NT0N. JUANITA COLTEAUX (standing, left) enters the measurements on a chart, and other recruits wait their turn. Movie cameramen record the overall measurements of a VENICE ...

... ROYAL DUCHESS-MOTHER OF AN INFANT PRINCE. PHOTOGRAPH nv CF.CII. BEATON. H.R.H. the DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER, wife of the elder of the King's two brothers gave birth to a son, her first child, on Thursday, December 18. She was Lady Alice Montagu-Douglas-Scott is a sister of the Duke of Buccleuch, and was married in 1935. Our photograph was taktn by Cecil Beaton when her Royal Highness was ...

... . These W.A.A.F.s, smart in their new battle-dress, have been learning to man Britain's barrage balloons Practising the difficult art of handling balloon ropes a study in concentration. Learning splicing and knots in the rope shop. The diagrams of knots on the wall should be noted. Training with a sectionised winch is part of the programme of work in the Balloon Girls school. Hard at it in the ...

... SLIP-ON FROCKS IN LAME AND CREPE WRAPPERS AND MULES THERE has come into being a new type of dress which is called the slip-on. It is robbed of all com plicated fastenings and may be adjusted in the fraction of a second. Fortnum and Mason, Piccadilly, are making a feature of these, one of which is pictured above. It is carried out in a soft blue crepe embroidered with golden sequins. A folded ...

... W.P.B. HARVEST FROM PALACE, SCHOOL AND CINEMA. Get a load of this PLAZA GIRLS bring out old files, papers, programmes, and back numbers for the new waste-paper drive. LONDON CINEMA USHERETTES heave-ho for the How to tie up your old newspapers waste-paper drive and bring out stacks of files a lesson from a London girl with a and old papers. tidy mind. BUCKINGHAM PALACE waste-paper baskets send ...

... . In minutest detail, without blur or smudge a sheet of black mirror ice reflects SONJA HENIE AND HER PARTNER as they sivirl and twirl in the new film Sun Valley Serenade This marvellous effect was not achieved without much headache on the set. Hundreds of gallons of black ink were frozen on the Sonja Henie rink at Twentieth Century-Fox Studios, when in walked the electricians and condemned ...