... 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 ...

... . AIR VICE-MARSHAL HARRY BROADHURST, aged thirty-seven, is the youngest Air Vice-Marshal in R.A.F. history. He has been appointed to command the Western Desert Allied Air Forces. He has been awarded the D.S.O. and Bar, D.F.C. and Bar, and A.F.C., has flown over 600 operational hours in fighters and shot down at least twelve enemy planes He was a famous peacetime pilot, and specialised in ...

... RUSSIAN COMEDY AT THE ST. JAMES': A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY, WITH VALERIE TAYLOR., MICHAEL REDGRAVE AND RONALD SQUIRE. Rakitin (MICHAEL REDGRAVE) asks Natalia Petrovna (VALERIE TAYLOR) why she is so disturbed and restless. RONALD SQUIRE as the country doctor, Ignaty Illyich Shpighecsky. He gives a magnificent performance. 44 Stay, my love and Heaven must be our judge. Jtaljfl overhears ...

... ft WREN TORPEDOMEN hoisting a torpedo, or tin-fish aboard a naval coastal craft at a British naval port. Looking after the tail part of a torpedo when it is hoisted away ifn the Wren Torpedomen have overhauled it. A gang of Wren Torpedomen working above and below a torpedo a job that means the release of men for more vital duties at sea. Learning how to set the preselected range and depth ...

... . 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 ...

... . This beautiful portrait of H.R.H. the DUCHESS OF KENT shows her with her younger son, H.R.H. PRINCE MICHAEL OF KENT. He was born in 1942 on July 4, American Independence Day, and a fete hours after his birth, his father, the late Duke of Kent, telegraphed to the President of the United States to ask if he would be a godfather. Mr. Roosevelt at once accepted, and the young Prince was given ...

... HE WAR MINISTER ND HIS WIFE. THE RT. HON. SIR JAMES 1 CRICG. P.C., K.C.S.I., Secretary for W ar. gave in his I mceiit Estimates speeeh a masterly review of the Army's progress during a year of war inch had seen disaster turn 'to the beginnings of victory. 's description of the Army's tea 'stic battle training and piipment, coupled with the confident note on which he 'shed, drew from ...

... THE BOYS WHO HIT THE ENEMY TARGETS DEAD IN THE CENTRE: HOW SKILLED BOMB-AIMERS ARE MADE BY STUDY AND PRACTICE. The bomb -si ght is a most intricate instrument and a bomb -aimers training includes hours of arduous study as well as practice before he can be certain of getting his bombs right on the spot. 44 All bombs fell in the target exercise in target practice at a BUmer does good work at his ...

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- MISS LEUEEN MacORATH, lor being a good hand at getting wool without coupons within the law. POSSESSED of a French poodle, Minou, whose coat makes for admiration and envy, it occurred to MISS LEUEEN MacGRATH that here was a means of making comforts for evacuee children. A friend of hers who owns an ancient spinning wheel entered into the scheme en thusiastically, so the ...