... B1 M E. BROOKE The housecoat has achieved a great success in the salons of Debenham and Freebody, Wigmore Street, where a great variety of models may be seen. The one portrayed above is of a silken material in a perfectly glorious colour scheme in which are subtly blended sunset as well as orange and unusual mimosa tints. It is just one of those affairs which cannot fail to please. The coat ...

... BUBBLE ami SQUEAK Stories from Everywhere HERE is a typical American story: Police Officers Blair and Shor were driving round in a radio patrol car. It was a delightful day, and the two minions of the law were quite con tented as they talked of football, and the latest movies, and who the next commissioner would be. Suddenly over their radio came a call for them. Calling car 34, the voice ...

... The wife of Lieutenant Alan Phipps, R.N., was the Hon. Veronica Fraser before her marriage to Sir Erie Phipps's second son in 1940. She is the daughter of the late Lord Lovat and Laura Lady Lovat, of Aigus. Beauly, Inverness-shire, and her brother is Lt. -Colonel Lord Lovat, D.S.O., M.C., who commands the Lovat Scouts. She has a daughter of two called Susan Kose, and a son, John Francis, who ...

... By Foresight Symbolic OUT of very small beginnings the Quebec Conference between Mr. Churchill and President Roosevelt suddenly developed considerable significance. It was Mr. Church ill's own idea that there be such a meeting, and it was he who made all the plans almost overnight as it were. Nothing on the scale that occurred was anticipated when Mr. Churchill intimated to President ...

... Dear Octopus Dodie Smith's Comedy Filmed with Helen Haye in the Part Created hy the late Marie Tempest Much of the Randolph family life centres round the old nursery. Parents find the pastimes of youth more fascinating than ever and the children'' s toys irresistible Michael Wilding Alistair Stewart Derek Lansiaux Madge Compton Basil Radford Ann Stephens) Dear Octopus was produced at the ...

... Cr H g// The Tatlcr and Bystander's Review of Weddings Spriggs Watson Dr. Arthur I. Spriggs younger son of Sir E. Spriggs, K.C.V.O., and the late Mrs. Spriggs, of Ruthin Castle N. Wales, and Geretli Watson, younger daughter of Col. and Mrs. F. W. Watson, of The Glebe House, Dinton, Bucks., were married at Dinton Church Denny Oxtoby Bassano J A. E James Denny, R.N., elder son of Mr. and Mrs. ...

... V son and heir was born to Acting Squadron Leader Sir David Cunynghame, Bt., R.A.F., and the Hon. Lady Cunynghame on Christmas Day. The Cunynghames were married in 1941. Before her marriage, Lady Cunynghame, who is Lord Stanley of Alderlev's second sister, was well known on the stage for nearly ten years, acting under her maiden name of Pamela Stanley. She played with great success the part of ...

... 0 A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country Royal Christmas THE King's speech on Christmas Day, which was transmitted throughout the Empire and the U.S.A., was universally hailed as one of the finest he has yet made. Enabled by the vast improvement in the position of the Allied Nations since he last spoke to paint a much happier picture than he could in his broadcast after the gloomy events at ...

... Margot Fonteyn as Odette in 44 Le Lac des Cygnes (Act II) Margot Fonteyn added yet another to her long list of triumphs when she danced the exacting role of Odette Odile in the full-length production of Le Lac des Cygnes by the Sadlers Wells Ballet Company in September last. She will again dance this role, which was first made famous in this country by Alicia Markova in 1934, during the ...

... A Dancer On and Off the Stage Daria Luna is the Prima Ballerina of Jack Buchanan's Show, It 's Time to Dance Daria Luna made her first appearance by Royal Com mand at the age of nine. That was ten years ago. Since then she has had many successes both in classical Ballet-- with Mme. Lydia Kyasht's Ballet Company md in musical comedy under Mr. Jack Buchanan's mana -rnenl. She is now appearing as ...

... -^4 By Sabretache y- t All l, at THE second warning issued to the Germans by a prominent personage was upon information quite as solid as that upon which Mr. Churchill's was. It may be taken as certain that the Germans will endeavour to saturate certain sections of what they consider invasion areas with that substance we call mustard gas (correct name, dichlorethyl sul phade), so as to seal ...

... BUBBLE SQUEAK Stories from Everywhere THE housemaid was applying for a situation, and on being interviewed by the agent was asked if she had any preference in the kind of family she would like to work for. Any kind, she said, except highbrows. I worked for a pair of them once, and never again. Him and her was quarrelling all the time, and it kept me running back and forward from the keyhole ...