... At West Wycombe Park The Home of Sir John and Lady Dashwood Sir John and Lady Dashwood have con verted part of their lovely Buckinghamshire home into a maternity convalescent home for officers' wives. Sir John is now a Flight I.ieutenant in the Auxiliary Air Force, No. 9 07 (Balloon) Squadron. Lady Dash wood was formerly Miss Helen Moira Eaton, daughter of the late Lieut.-Col. Vernon Eaton, ...

... The Countess of C.adogan has recently returned to this country from a ten months* visit to Egypt, where her husband, Captain the Earl of Cadogan, is stationed. During their absence abroad, their three children, the young Viscount Chelsea and his sisters, Lady Sarah and Lady Daphne Cadogan, have been staying with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ducas at Stanton Fitzwarren, in Wiltshire. In the photograph ...

... Allied Artists In England Now Some Distinguished Painters From the Occupied Countries M. Oscar Kokoschka Paints a Religious Picture Oscar Kokoschka is the most outstanding Czecho- slovakian artist of to-day. Well known on the Continent and in the U.S.A. as a leader of the expressionist school he now lives in London, at Finchley, ivhere this photograph was taken in his studio. During the Nazi ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen Immortal LORD BYRON is an immortal character if not an immortal poet-- and he may be that, too. A spectacular legend surrounded him, from the moment of his first emergence to fame, and when fame was succeeded by notoriety, this legend began to take on an infernal hue. He was to give name to, if he did not actually patent, a storm-driven, dark and ruthless type of romanticism ...

... Oxford Goings-On Gowns Over Uniforms An All-Star Red Cross Show he Oxfordshire Red Cross Agriculture Fund was the eason for and the beneficiary rom a wonderful all-star how at the New Theatre, )xford, presented by Jack lylton and Stanley Dorrill. tage and radio celebrities see the group below, right, or some of them) enter- ained the packed house i or the first half of the vening, an auction ...

... 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 ...

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... rr.c; By James Agate The Year's Films ONCE a year everybody should take stock of his position, and by taking stock I mean make tally of his deficiencies. Many people write to me and say, why, since you so obviously dislike pictures, do you trouble to write about them? Why not leave them alone? The answer is that I am extremely fond of pictures and cannot leave them alone. But I like them best ...

... Greta Gynt A Lovely Norwegian Dancer and Film Star Miss .Greta Gynt first came to this country in 1936 when she danced in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park. This week she is singing Nor wegian songs at the Inter Allied Christmas Fair and Exhibition which is being held at the May Fair Hotel in aid of the Red Cross Photographs by Harlip ...

... The Tatler and Bystander in Town and Country Chinese Charity By Bridget Chetwynd THE Chinese Embassy was open for an afternoon's entertainment in aid of the Chinese War Orphanage. Lovely rooms, with embroidered silk wall-panels, satin upholstery woven with golden dragons, and crystal chandeliers like illuminated fountains were laid out with stalls of Chinese Art Goods, palmists behind ...

... ^4 /jiif By Sabretache Nomenclature THERE is a colt in the Free Handicap by Colombo out of Sweet Abbess. With humble submission, I suggest that it is absolutely imperative that he should be named Kandy. In that lovely hill resort in the Island of Spices there are many temples, and in one of them is a tooth of the saintly Buddha, who must incidentally have had an excruciating time with his ...