... The Tatler and Bystander's Review of Weddings JV/fcWtterS f sir PW\ S! h Gre'g |l(J mtc o-r^h^ f is&es'ssz lifl? .rna CoW1' w**^T7, i-rfi r Lf^'p E. ^lr^ittgHam' Uichaf^ ntid MrS* Cu'lis „V SRi|l/°f ttikistzts*- H Bufton Browne Group Captain S. 0. Bufton R.A.F., second son of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. 0. Bufton o/ Llandrindod Wells, married Susan Maureen Browne, daughter of Colonel and Mrs. ...

... Thank you, and may be the dawn of happier times The other day one of our branch managers, in the course of a report to Head Office, said The assistants at this branch are all girls some very young, three with husbands in the Forces, and two with families. They are carrying responsibility with cheerfulness and resource, and their loyalty is beyond ques tion. They are keeping open the jobs for ...

... . 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 ...

... WALK A LITTLE, WADE A LITTLE, SWIM A LITTLE. With full packs, U.S. soldiers ford a stream in New Guinea, followed up by native porters carrying their equipment and supplies. U.S. troops in this area have made use of every type of transportation, from aircraft and boats to their own tired feet! SURE-FOOTED NATIVES CARRY EQUIPMENT AND AMMUNITION across a log bridge in the heart of the jungle. ...

... Weather Conditions on the Russian Front BEFORE THE SNOWS CAME, THERE WAS THE MUD. A Nazi Divisional Commander's car in difficulties during the rainy autumn weather, which preceded the snows and which hampered German movements, preventing them from preparing for the Russian counter-thrusts. Many of the roads behind the fighting front are un-metalled and were never intended for use by heavy ...

... HOW THE R.A.F. ARE WAGING WARFARE, UNDER VERY ARDUOUS CONDITIONS, IN NORTH AFRICA. From dawn onwards, the fighter-pilots on their improvised airfields are ready to take the air in their Spitfires to beat back the Luftwaffe raiders- Drawing by Roland Davies In the campaign against the Nazi raiders over the British I First Army, the Spitfire pilots rise before dawn and are in the sky almost at ...

... A Summary of His Abilities and Deficiencies in the Field. By DOUGAL GORDON THE opportunity of seeing how they behave under a little adversity is just as valuable when assessing one's enemies as one's friends. Opinions as to the merits of the Japanese soldier up to, say, January 1942, had to be based on his series of almost unrelieved successes. Since then, in two of the three fronts Op which ...

... 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 ...

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- H.M.S. RENOWN SEES STARS. THE CREWS OF MALTA'S HIGH-SPEED LAUNCHES-- for having rescued from the sea hundreds of airmen shot down during the blitz THE 44 blitz over Malta, G.C., has been the occasion for countless acts of heroism, not least on the part of the CREWS OF THE HIGH SPEED LAUNCHES stationed there, who have, sometimes through great storms, during the last year ...

... . As the Witch of 44 Jack and Jill at 1 1 is Majesty's, ILEANA SILVA glW? 0 great back-stage performance in the art of transforming her charming faC* into a properly frightening witch visage. We give you eight stages in this miracle of maquillage, just to show what a little face treatment will do. PHOTOGRAPHS BY SWAEBF.. ...

... TA-RA-RA-BOOM-DE-AY AS A MARY MARTIN DANCE. Star of the five-star 44 Happy Go Lucky Technicolor musical at the Plaza MARY MARTIN as the Neiv York cigarette girl who blues her all on a trousseau en route for a Caribbean island and a 44 poor rich fish, has thirteen changes of costume and no stockings. Mary teas a dancer before ever she dreamed of singing as a profession and in this film the ...