... . TT OLLYWOOD'S STAGE DOOR CAN- TEEN, run on the lines of the successful Stage Door Canteen of the American Theatre Wing in New York, proved a smash-hit as soon as it was opened. Bette Davis is the president, and the staff comes from every rank in the movie colony, from studio hands to producers, and includes hundreds of celebrated actors and actresses. The canteen's capacity is 600 uniformed ...

... . r\NCE UPON A HONEY- V-7 MOON, new R.K.O. Radio picture, is due at the Odeon on February 26. It 's an international spy thriller, with Ginger as the golden- haired Baroness, formerly U.S.A. dancer Katie O'Hara. She discovers the Baron to be a Nazi agent and, after many narrow shaves, escapes with newspaper man Pat O'Toole, but returns to the Baron to do some contrespionage work. This ...

... . IH.R.H. PRINCESS ELIZABETH (right) and H.R.H. PRINCESS MARGARET ROSE (second from left are members of the first Buckingham Palace Company of Girl Guides, and are here seen marching smartly along in the ranks, someichere in the country. Princess Elizabeth is now. a Sea Ranger, and recently sent a message of greeting by carrier-pigeon to all Rangers, Guides and Brownies. She will be seventeen ...

... TWO-GOLOUR CONTRASTS SPRING UTILITY COATS NEAT WOOL FROCKS TV K ANY decades have passed since Courtauld materials made their d6but M and great advances have been made in their manufacture Now thev are extensively used for war work, hence there is only a limited quantity available for fashion and it is highly prized. Susan Small has been able to acquire some of it and has created the model seen ...

... . M. FEODOR GUSIEV is the neiv Soviet Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, in succession to M. Maisky now Vice-Commissar for Foreign Affairs. He recently arrived in England and teas welcomed by Mr. Eden, tcho discussed with him the plans for the Moscow conferences. M. Gusiev is a young Ambassador, as he is thirty-nine, and has been only six years in the diplo matic. He was formerly the ...

... . TN 1226 Alexander II. made Stirling Castle a royal residence, and it has been closely associated with Scottish history for hun dreds of years to-day fresh pages are being added to its chronicle of war, for A.T.S. cooks, signal opera tors and clerks are now quartered there and work in offices in the ancient build ing, while the N.A.A.F.I. canteen is installed in the sixteenth-century ...

... . PHOTOGRAPHS nY LENARE. PRINCESS ALEXANDRA OF KENT is the only daughter of His late Royal Highness the Duke of Kent and of H.R.H the Duchess of Kent, and was born on Christmas Day, 1936. Our delightful new portrait studies show her with her elder brother, PRINCE EDWARD OF KENT, who was born on October 9, 1935. They have a baby brother, Prince Michael, who will be a year old in July next. ...

... I When the Sherwood sisters (ROSALIND RUSSELL and JANET BLAIR) take a basement flat they don I realise that the windows are uncurtained I The cop on the beat, Officer T^onigan (DONALD MACBRIDE) views the sisters I Sheneood with a certain amount of suspicion. Eileen is the devastating blonde. J I s tricky work even changing one's stockings in a flat without doors which lock, and with an ...

... I THRASHER'S CREW AND AMERICAN AIRMAN INVESTED WITH HONOURS. LIEUT.-Ct ONEL CHESLEY PETERSON, D.S.C., D.F.C., American Army Air Force, is seen leaving the Palace with MRS. PETERSON, after being invested with the S.O. He was one of four American Air Force officers to be decorated n that occasion, the others receiving the D.F.C. He commanded the 71st gle Squadron and during the 18 months' ...

... . GABRIELLE BRUNE plays Sally in 44 Full Swing, the successful musical come with Jack Hulbert and Cicely Courtneidge at the Palace Theatre. Her numbtts include 44 Cleo from Rio, 44 Mamma, Buy Me That, 44 Love is Love Anywhere> and 44 Follow My Dancing Feet PHOTOGRAPH BY FRED DANIELS. ...

... . Happy carefree Norway in the summer of 1939 the bride Anna Korstad (ELIZABETH FRASER), cuts the cake at her wedding breakfast. Gunner Korstad (RICHARD DERR) is the bridegroom. The brutal invaders take possession hordes of Nasi soldiers, with ful I equipment, stream into the peaceful Norwegian village to the horror ani astonishment of the inhabitants. A taste of the promised German 44 ...

... ROMANCE, ACHIEVEMENT AH DVENTURE: all topical pictures. This desert patissier produces admirable cakes for the men of an Australian squadron in Tripolitania. His goods are baked in an under-sand oven, ingeniously constructed of petrol cans and fitted icith a petrol-can chimney and cowl. LIEUT. EL WOOD COOKE, U.S.N. was formerly America's No. 2 /(iirnial amateur and MRS. COOKE was Sarah Palfrey ...