... 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 ...

... LONDON BLITZ REPORTER OF UNPUBLISHED STORY VALERIE HOBSON. Starring with Richard Greene in 44 Unpublished Story, VALERIE HOBSON plays fashion journalist turned ivar reporter. She covers the dramatic phases of a story inspired by the epic events leading from Dunkirk to the Battle of Britain, and the film shows the first great London blitz of September 7, 1940, and the following months. A ...

... . GINGER ROGERS has scored yet another hit as Janie, the telephone girl heroine of 44 TOM, DICK AND HARRY. Janie selects a husband from her three suitors, Dick (ALAN MARSHAL), Tom (GEORGE MURPHY) and Harry (BURGESS MEREDITH). lie visualises her marriage to Dick, the rich young man can offer her luxury and ease. Dick is the Prince Charming of every girVs romantic dream. Love in a cottage Janie ...

... GANGSTERS AND A FLOOR SHOW IN THE ORCHID ROOM I Circus-pony and trainer JEANNE RAVEL as the Dancer in 44 Circus Parade Left MURIEL OXFORD as the drummer-girl in 44 Circus Parade Fic Vandyke's singing star, CELIA LIPTON, in one o/ her numbers. JEANNE RAVEL ant/ GEORGE GRAY as the Debutante and Mr. Lucifer in 44 Lady, Here 's Your Wreath 44 ET A LOAD OF THIS, George Black*s 44 surprise musical ...

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... THEY ALSO SERVE .-MESS STEWARDS IN CHINTZ INCLUDE THE PREMIER'S DAUGHTER. A gay short chintz coat is worn by the Officers1 Mess stewards of the A.T.S. Training Centre, Southern Command, instead of the usual white coat or tunic. This photo graph was taken earlier in the A.T.S. career of MISS MARY CHURCHILL, who note wears the stripe of a lance-corporal. The other Mess stewards with her ...

... N-S PC-C 4 Legacies are solicited. V N-S-P C-C 4 Legacies are solicited. S6e's looking forward to Xmas Will you help with a special war time Christmas gift Sir Spencer j. Portal, Hon. Treasurer, Victory House, Leicester Sq., London, W.C.2. COR most children it is a happy 1 time. But for some, the- removal of daddy's protection only means hardship, neglect, or even cruelty. No less than 103 ...