... . SS VERONICA INNES, of the Air Transport \tixiliary, daughter of Major G. V. d'A. Innes, rigaged to F.-O. Gerard Volkersz Royal etherlands Naval Air Service, (park.) MISS ANN BROCKBANK, daughter of Mrs. Brock- bank, The Manor House, Steeple Lang ford, Salisbury, is engaged to Captain John Pelham Mann, Scots Guards. r marriage of MISS BETTY STOCKFELD, the actress ...

... . ELISABETH DE GAULLE, daughter of the Fighting Freneh leader, is at school in this country. She was born in Paris in May 1924, and attended the Convent Notre Dame de Sion there. When France collapsed, her mother took her aboard the last British troopship from Brest, and they arrived in England in June 1940. Neither of them knew General de Gaulle had pre ceded them declaring his intention to ...

... royal birthdays group. This delightful Royal family group of THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING AND QUEEN with their daughters T.R.H. PRINCESS ELIZABETH and PRINCESS MARGARET has a birthday interest, for Princess Margaret trill be twelve years old on Friday, August 21, and last week the Queen celebrated her forty -second birthday. The dog in the foreground is a Shih-Tzu, or Tibetan Lion dog, called Ming ...

... T IGHT AND SHADE, the new revue by Herbert Farjeon, with assistance from Eleanor Farjeon, has just been produced at the Ambassadors. It contains bitingly satirical numbers, nostalgic pre-war songs and scenes, and some excursions into the far-away legendary past when to fly the Channel was an achievement worthy of a presentation. There are skits and sketches of to-day and yesterday, and, ...

... LIGHT AND SHADE WIT, NOSTALGIA AND SATIRE. TVTR. FARJEON has assembled an excellent team for his new revue, 44 Light and Shade.44 Betty Ann Davies is given plenty of well- contrasted material, which she puts over with flan and personality. She is first-rate, whether she is standing in a queue to buy she knows not what, imitating a fish in love, taking the part of a girl at a party, or a ...

... CREAM OF GUNFLASHES' PEACHES AND SCREAM. MISS BELLA WEBB, a munition worker, was Gunflashes guest artist for their new show, 44 PEACHES AND SCREAM. B'SK Mfl BOMBARDIER JACK CARDEW, the producer, in one of his numbers, with the beauty chorus dancing against a skyscraper background. flats Off 1*5 a lively number presented by BOMBARDIER JACK CARDEW and the chorus in the opening scene. 44 Harem- ...

... THE LONDON ZOO BECOMES WAR-MINDED: SECRETAR1 HUXLEY SUPERVISES CATERING AND INSPECTS PORKERS. N.B. Colour pit* JRfecf in thia it sue. THE London Zoo is now thoroughly war-minded. Besides keeping up its pre war business of exhibiting animals and furthering the cause of zoology,! now shows Londoners how to raise more food. At the exhibition opened on Bam Holiday by the Duke of Norfolk, model pig ...

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- KIM KENDALL, for being over two yards of glamour. Sevcnteen-y ears-old six-foot-two KIM KENDALL studied ballet-dancing for six years under Mme. Lydia Kyasht, but she gpetc out of it, and note resigns herself to less ambitious stage dancing. Though so taU and still growing, Kim is as graceful as a lily. Her brother in the Merchant Naty is two inches taller, but she mar ...

... . TN THE LADY IS 1 WILLING Mar- lene Dietrich combines domesticity and glamorous glitter. As Elizabeth Madden, the Broadway star, she is the complete siren and vamp, but a rush of maternal feeling makes her kidnap a baby. In order legally to adopt the infant, she makes a marriage of convenience with Dr. Corey McBain. He 's to go on with his research and she will combine stage success and pram ...

... SNATCH RACKET: NO ORCHIDS FOR MISS BLANDISH. XT0 ORCHIDS FOR MISS IN BLANDISH, at the Prince of Wales, in the stage version of James Hadlcy Chase's novel of the 44 snatch racket. It 's a melo drama set in and around Kansas City during 1933. Miss Blandish is kidnapped by the evil Grisson gang. Slim, degenerate homicidal maniac, is attracted, and refuses to dispose of her when the gang ...

... WOMEN IN WARTIME GREENLAND SEAL COATS PRINT DINNER FROCKS SIMPLE FELT HATS ALREADY women are thinking how pleasant it will be to spend their next coupons. They appreciate the fact that it will be wise to lay out a certain number in hard-wearing furs. For these they must go to Percy Vickery's, 245, Regent Street. It is in his salons that the Greenland seal coat, pictured above, may be seen, and ...

... . Love ignores the Luftwaffe CAP TAIN IAN HAMILTON SHEARER, R.A., and MISS JANET A. COURTICE were married in Malta G.C. Thev drove off in one of the island 44 garrys Right MISS DAPHNE SINCLAIR SCOTT, younger daughter of Mr. Cedric Sinclair Scott Stroove, Skelmorlie, Ayrshire, is engaged to Paymaster Lieut. Edward Donald Price, R.N., son of the late Mr. F. E. Price F.R.C.S. (harlip.) CLARE ...