... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- THE epic story of WING-COMMANDER G. P. GIBSON, V.C., D.S.O. and Bar, and his force of Lancaster bombers which wrecked the three Ruhr dams made May history. Last week he attended at Buckingham Palace with his wife, to receive his brilliantly- won V.C., and a Bar to the D.S.O. handed to him by the Queen, who deputised for the King, then abroad. COLONEL MALCOLM C. GROW, ...

... GRAVE AND LIGHT-HEARTED, WORK AND rLAi STABILITIES OF THE WEEK AND THEIR DOINGS. ADMIRAL LORD LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN, Chief of Combined Operations, and LADY LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN attended the premiere of 44 We Dive at Dawn, in aid of the R.N. Benevolent Fund. I 1 M I II 'VHmtmMWmt IT 1 f Wk j Jj WING COMMANDER W. RUDD teas judge of the ankles competition at the garden party' held by plotter W.A.A.F.s ...

... FROM WAR TO WAR: THE LIFE 11 D DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP. Brilliant young British officers of 1902 Lieut. Clive Candy, V.C. (ROGER LIVESEY) and Lieut. Hopuell (DAVID HUTCHESON), heroes of the Boer War. Edith Hunter (DEBORAH KERR), British governess in Berlin and official 44 reason for Clive's duel finds him bandaged, but all thumbs-up. Clive as the complete Colonel Blimp. Colonel Blimp is ...

... WOMEN IN WARTIME i THE IMPORTANCE OF COLOUR THE SHORT EVENING DRESS PRACTICAL ECONOMY IN the new collections, if so they may be called, colour and simplicity are very important. Debenham and Freebody, Wigmore 'Street, are making a feature of House Coats which are a glorified version of the time-honoured wrapper they are semi-fitting, with full skirts. The model above has been designed by this ...

... ^TOEL COWARD'S two first Bights were the theatrical events of the week in London, and were fixed for Thursday, April 29, and Friday, April 30, at the Haymarket. PRESENT LAUGHTER is a luxury-life comedy with Garry Essendine, popular actor, as. leading character. Garry is about to start off on a foreign tour, and has to break loose from a lot of entanglements. There is Roland, tiresome pseudo ...

... MRS. LORNE MacLAINE CAMPBELL is the wife of Major temporary Lieut. -Colonel Lome MacLaine Campbell, V.C., D.S.O., T.D., Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. He won the V.C. for his gallantry at Wadi Akarit, when as described in one of the longest official citations of the war, he gave a display of valour and utter disregard for personal safety which could not be excelled. He won the D.S.O. in ...

... . 1V/T AGIC CARPET, Firth Shephard's new 1VJL musical extravanganza at the Princes Theatre, is a gay, colourful show, full of comic in vention and enlivened by first-class acrobatic dancing by the Ganjou Brothers and Juanita, Marguerite and Charles, and the somersaulters Valyne and Lontay. Sydney Howard is superb as Miss Finchbottom.of the Bon Marche, a Tender foot, an A.B., and in other well ...

... CYRIL RITCHARD AND MADGE ELLIOTT- STAGE PRINCE AND MERRY WIDOW. PHOTOGRAPHS BY CECIL BEATON. AN out facing page we give photographs of MADGE ELLIOTT and CYRIL RITCH ARD as they are at home here they are pictured as Sonia and Prince Danilo as they appear on the stage in the revival of Franz Lehar's musical comedy, 44 The Merry Widow, at His Majesty's. This famous piece was originally seen in ...

... THE LITTLE FROCK SUMMER CYCLING SUITS BRUSHED MOHAIR SWEATERS EVERYTHING in the sportswear department at Harvey Nichols, Knightsbridge, is neat and practical. There are frocks for the very warm weather, one of which is illustrated above. Carried out in fancy rayon showing an artistic and cheerful design, it has short sleeves, and the cut is simple, hence it is easy to wash. In striking ...

... . Left 44 I am Tondelayo HEDY LAMARR as the sultry- half-caste of the African rubber station, finds her way to the bungalow of LANG- FORD, the new overseer, who has been warned against her. Tondelayo marries Langford,' and later determines to get rid of him. The Doctor (FRANK MORGAN) accuses her of poisoning her husband, but the girl flatly denies that the liquid she gives him is poison. ...

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... , PORTRAITS BY BERTRAM PARK AND PAUL TANQUERAY. The engagement of the MARQUESS OF LOTHIAN to MISS ANTONELLA (TONI) NEWLAND has just been announced. Lord Lothian succeeded his kinsman, the eleventh Marquess, British Ambassador to the United States of America, who died in 1940. He is the elder son of the late Captain Andrew William Kerr, R.N., grandson of the seventh Marquess, and of Mrs. Kerr, ...