... The latest portrait of Princess Alice to reach this country from Ottawa shows H.R.H. in the blue uniform of the Royal Canadian Air Force (Women's Division) in which she holds the high rank of Air Commandant. H.E. The Earl of Athlone was appointed Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of the Dominion of Canada in 1940. Their daughter, Lady May Abel Smith is now in Canada with her parents, ...

... Bedtime Story Loretta Young and Fredric March (Regal) (Right) Jane and Lucius take a last look round the now empty theatre. Robert Benchley who plays Eddie the Drakes'1 business manager, is on the left Jane rake Loretta Young) is the leading lady c the Broadway stage. She is anxious to reti into domesticity but her playwright husba Lucius Drake (Fredric March) contin s to pen successful new ...

... Mrs. Patrick Needham and Richard Mrs. Patrick Needham is the young est daughter of the late Sir Lionel Faudel- Phillips, Bt., and married in 1941 Captain Patrick Needham, elder son of Major the Hon. Francis Needham, and a nephew of the Earl of Kilmorey. Captain Needham is in the Grenadier Guards, and his younger brother, Arthur, is in the same regiment. The \Patrick Need- hams have one small ...

... forking for the Common Cause Mrs. A. V. Alexander wife of the First Lord of the Admiralty showed great interest in the mobile canteen exhibited at the Salvation Army Exhibition at Dorland Hall. This canteen is something to be proud of for 2,000 meals can be served before the canteen has to return to base for further supplies Lady Violet Astor, representing Lieut. -Colonel the Hon. J. J. Astor, ...

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... , , 1 Beaufort House, Gravel Lane, London, E.l. Telephone Bishopsgate (i565. Send remittance as above, and state height and chest measurements. Place your order NOW Stocks arc getting low. II And this man is still alive Most Naval men choose the Vitabuoy because its buoyancy might be invaluable in emergency. Paymaster Lieutenant R.N., found its fire-resisting properties almost as valuable. ...

... WAY OF THE WAR By foresight Tactics, Not Strategy HITLER'S attack on the Kerch Peninsula now appears in its proper perspective. It has been purely tactical, and only a preliminary to his grand spring strategy. Stalin was quick to appreciate this. Timo- shenko did not waste any time in launching a counter tactical offensive at Kharkov. This was to create a nuisance and if Hitler was compelled ...

... Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy Marriage Versus Career Film at the Empire Sam Craig Spencer Tracy) sports writer on the 44 New York Chronicle is having a feud in his columns ivith Tess Harding Katharine Hepburn who writes an international column for the 44 Chronicle The two meet for the first time when jointly reprimanded by the paper's managing editor and are mutually attracted ...

... Behind the Scenes A New Ballet is Created Last week the first per formance of Robert Help- mann's ballet, Hamlet, was given in aid of Mrs. Chur- chill's Aid-to-Russia Fund. The performance was attended by Mrs. Churchill with the Soviet Ambassador and Mme. Maisky. This was a tribute not only to our gallant allies, but particu larly to the Russian Ballet, on whose traditions the Sadler's Wells ...

... The Tatler and Bystander in Town and Country II. M. Queen Mary QUEEN MARY very rarely appears with the King and Queen at' an official function: and Her Majesty had a very warm wel come, therefore, last week, when she accom panied them on their visits to the Guards Armoured Division and the Airborne Division down in Southern Command. Queen Mary's absence from the public scene is only partly due ...

... Fine and Dandy, Stylishly Staged, Lives Up to its Name at the Saville Gay opening the Company arrive by carriage and pair and are announced by the flunkeys. Leslie Henson comes by bus and punches his own ticket. The party *s on Left Tribute to Russia Graham Payn as Kapok Douglas Byng as materfamilias and Leslie Henson as the Impresario and com pere. 44 The Story of the Steppes a burlesque of ...

... A Man of Importance Colonel J. J. Llewellin, Minister of Aircraft Production During the first week in Feb ruary Colonel John Jestyn Llewellin, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Vircraft Production since its formation in 1 910, became President of the Board of Trade. Eighteen days later he suc ceeded Lieut. -Colonel Moore- Brabazon, now Lord Brabazon, as Minister of Aircraft Produc ...