... . 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 ROYAL FAMILY OF IRAN IN THEIR SUMMER PALACE. HHHESE very attractive pictures of SHAH MUHAMMED RIZA PAHLEVI OF IRAN with QUEEN FAWZIEH and their small daughter, PRINCESS CHAHNAZ, were taken in the Summer Palace, some miles out of Teheran. The palace is modern, and stands at the foot of the Demavand mountain it has lovely gardens with masses of flowers, a swimming-pool, and tennis courts. ...

... MAN WHO MADE THE SPITFIRE: THE FIRST OF THE FEW. HPHE FIRST OF THE FEW, produced and directed by Leslie Howard, was due for its gala premiere in aid of the R.A.F. Benevolent Fund at the Leicester Square Theatre on August 20. The story opens in September 1940. Fighter pilots awaiting the order to 44 scramble hear from Wing Com mander Crisp the story of the late R. J. Mitchell, designer of ...

... IRVING BERLIN, responsible for the lyrics and music of 44 This is the Army, a 1942 version of his first World War hit 44 Yip, Yip, Yaphank. 44 A Military Minstrel Shotc is the opening number of Irving Berlin's netc soldier revue presented at the Broadicay Theatre, New York. PRIVATE HAYDEN RORKE and PRIVATE RICHARD MANSON as Noel Coxcard and Jane Cowl in 44 Stage Door Canteen --Hf mi i i i i ...

... . Last March after some discussion it will be remembered, MR. R. G. CASEY left Washington, where he was Australia's Minister, to become our Minister of State for the Middle East and a member of the War Cabinet. Our photograph shows him with MRS. CASEY in the house at Menu, near the Pyramids, owned by Air. Chester Beatty, where they are now living. (Note the Segonzac paintings on the wall.) ...

... . PRINCE WILLIAM HENRY ANDREW OF GLOUCESTER had a welcoming smile for the photographer. The Duchess of Gloucester's baby son is devoted to the Australian terrier Zalie which belongs to his parents. The royal smile H.R.H. Prince William of Gloucester is graciously pleased with life Concentration the baby Prince is delighted with the aeroplane toy which has been given to him. A striking likeness ...

... : 44 TULARE PATII, Terence Rattigan's new play at the Apollo, is an A extremely realistic drama of life in the Royal Air Force. The scene is set in a little country hotel near ap aerodrome and the I characters all have a close connection with the R.A.F. They include a charming ex-actress, Patricia, married to a young pilot a Polish Countess, who, naturally enough in this wartime world, was ...