... . MRS. DOROTHY WOOD, aged thirty-seven, and her eighteen and a half year old TWIN DAUGHTERS MURIEL and JOAN used to run a riding school at Nottingham. When war broke out the school was closed, and the Woods joined the Land Army. Later they worked for several month driving lorries for a firm of contractors to the R.A.F. When the contract finished they unanimously decided to join the A.T.S., and ...

... 4t TV /f ANPOWER, the new Warner Brothers picture which was due at IV J. the Warner Theatre, Leicester Square, on April 3, stars Marlcnc Dietrich with Edward G. Robinson and George Raft in a triangle drama. Marlene is Fay Duval, bad girl who has been in prison, hut, of course, she 's not really had, only unlucky. Hank, linesman of the Pacific Power and Light Company, marries her, and she ...

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- THESE GIRLS, for looking so pretty in utility frocks. A Esthetic shivers went rippling down thousands of elegant spines when the Government announced its wartime intention of sponsoring utility garments. The word suggested ugliness, adequate attire as opposed to grace, trimness, chic. But here you have FOUR ATTRACTIVE GIRLS to demonstrate quite otherivise. Far from ...

... . PHOTOGRAPH BY STUDIO LISA. HER ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCESS ELIZABETH, elder daughter of T.M. the King and Queen and heir-presumptive to the Throne will celebrate her sixteenth birthday on April 21. This has been an eventful year for her. In February it was announced that the King had approved her appointment to be Colonel Grenadier Guards. This is the first official position which her Royal ...

... HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY, the 20 th Century-Fox Production based on the best-seller novel by Richard Llewellyn, has been awarded the Oscar, or Gold Statu ette, by the U.S. Motion Picture Academy for the best cinema direction of 1941. It was directed by John Ford, and has won six out of seven Academy Awards, as, in addition to being listed as the outstanding picture of 1941, it is labelled as ...

... . PHOTOGRAPH BY CECIL BEATON. The MARCHIONESS OF SALISBURY, wife of the fourth Marquess of Salisbury is posed in the grounds of Hatfield House in front of a group of statuary representing Queen Elizabeth surrounded by her counsellors. These include William Cecil, Lord Burghley, her celebrated Lord Treasurer. His second son, Robert Cecil, first Earl of Salisbury, was the founder of this branch ...

... . MADAME BUSCH is the Belgian wife of a Swedish magnate. She is a pianist and an artist and has taken an active part in the decoration of her London house, as she has painted the bathrooms, several screens and so forth. She does not believe in the ultra-modern ideal of austerity in her surroundings, but has a big collection of china and bric-d-brac, and is always surrounded by quantities of ...

... FILM ROMANCES SCHOOLTEACHER AND GANGSTER STYLE. 44 13 EMEMBER THE DAY, due at the Odeon, Leicester Square, on April 6, presents Claudettc Colbert in the opening sequences as an elderly woman anxious to see politician Dewey Roberts. Time flashes back, and she is a schoolteacher, who falls in love with Dan, the baseball coach, while her young pupil Dewey adores her. Dan marries her on the eve ...

... . MARLENE DIETRICH'S role of Fay Duval in 44 Manpower is thai of the no good girl, hard though beautiful. She has been sent to prison for a crime she didn't commit and this has embittered her whole nature so she takes a job as hostess at the Midnight Club, where customers and hostesses too are consistently robbed by 44 Smiley Quinn the crooked proprietor. ...

... FLORIDA IN THE 'AO's: REAP THE WILD WIND. T3 EAP THE WILD WIND -TV is a thrilling Paramount picture in Technicolor dealing with America's fight to wipe out the pirate wreckers who swarmed in Florida in the 1840's. Loxi Clai borne (PAULETTE GODDARD), heroine of the story, is a great hearted little hoyden, ready to fling off her Victorian petticoats and help to save shipwrecked men yet able ...

... SIMPLE WASHING -FROCKS SLIP-ON DRESSES SHADY FELT HATS NOW that Easter is over, fashions for the warm weather have to be seriously considered, therefore Debenham and Freebody, Wigmore Street, are showing the advance guard of their washing-frocks. They are cut on simple lines, so that the laundress's troubles are simplified. Furthermore, the colours are fast as a matter of fact, they may be ...

... //S? PERFECT ^SYMMETRY $F££AMlf/V£D PIFAFS. .^discriminating women everywhere acclaim the KONERAY for what it actually is the smartest of all smart skirts. But, a critic has said that the pleats are not sufficiently deep, presumably because they taper off to snug-fitting single material over the hips. That is the secret of the success of the KONERAY pleats the perfect symmetry of that ...