... Off the Stage Pictures of Three Talented People Miss Betty Warren who recently played in Waltz Without Find at the Lyric spends her week-ends building boats for the Admiralty. Always a lover of the sea, and owner of a Dutch barge which took part in the evacuation of Dunkirk, she herself evolved the idea of building _ lifeboats for the Royal and Merchant Navies. The business, started in an ...

... Watching and Competing At Windsor's Wings For Victory Horse Show and Gymkhana ^focussing the events in the ring were Frances Lady Daresbury and Mr. B. ur ess with Lt.-Col. Sir Archibald Wei gall, who lives at Engl em ere, Ascot Lady Priscilla Aird rode her horse, Careless Boy. She is the Earl of AncastePs daughter, and the wife of Lt.-Col. Sir John Renton Aird Princess Alexandra was ...

... 64 The Quest (2) Concluding the Pictorial Record of the New Sadler's Wells Ballet Last week, pictures of the first three scenes of The Quest were given. Here the story is completed of the Spenserian ballet, which is the first choreographic creation of Frederick Ashton since he was called up nearly two years ago. The scenario on which he worked was adapted from the First Book of The Faerie ...

... The highway of fashion BY M. E. BROOKE I Kim a is a name to conjure with in the world of dress, and these models are sold by outfitters of prestige. Too much cannot be said in favour of the one portrayed on this page of it two views are given. The one on the left shows it robbed of its coat. The skirt is of a very small multi-coloured check tweed, pleats being intro duced at the sides. The ...

... Lightness of Heart The Emlyn Williams Play Screened and a Crazy Melodrama-farce The Emlyn Williams play, The Light of Heart (Godfrey Tearle, Angela Baddeley, Anthony Ireland), has been remodelled to fit the mordant personality of Monty (The Man Who Came to Dinner) Woolley. In the film the old admirer (Sara Allgood), who hacks his come-back, is the rich aunt of the young composer (Cornel Wild) ...

... 0 UJ A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country The Season, 1943 ANOTHER series of Investitures has, by His Majesty's command, been arranged for the coming weeks, and these important functions, together with a few afternoon parties for diplomats and officials and their wives, will make up most of the royal programme for the austere wartime season of 1943. Receiving a medal or decoration from ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen What is Justice? WHAT is truth? asked Pilate. And young Abner Coates, the Assistant District Attorney, has occasion to ask himself, during the hot June days of the murder trial in Childerstown courthouse, What is justice? Abner is the central figure, one might say hero, of an outstandingly good American novel, The Just and the Unjust, by James Gould Cozzens (Cape; 9s. 6d ...

... BY M. E. BROOKE It is at Margaret Marks, Knightsbridge, that Selita jumper suits may be seen. Perfectly simple and admirably cut, they are made in the best materials procurable. The one illustrated on the right is light and warm, and the deep basque suggests that it is a coat and skirt. The touches of white are very effective. There are other Selita models in stripes which are decidedly attrac ...

... And the Phenomenon Known as Black-Out which Accompanies It During Aerial Manoeuvres New Pictures of the World's Fastest and Most Versatile Aircraft, the Mosquito, in Production THE increased speeds at which modern planes fly has brought many new problems to both designers and flyers. One of the most difficult to solve, because it affects the pilot, is liability to black-out. This is the ...

... PAVING THE WAY FOR THE CAPTURE OF MATEUR American repair crews are here seen filling in holes in the road to accommodate the heavy truck and tank traffic during the approach of American armoured forces towards the great German stronghold of Mateur, within the Bizerta-Tunis defence perimeter. This picture gives a good idea of the manner in which the rains can play havoc with the lesser roads in ...

... WORKERS' PLAYTIME Miss Gwen Catley singing to a vast audience of munition workers under the direction of the B.B.C.'s Variety Depart ment The British Broadcasting Corporation has always tried to help in the war effort. Soon after the beginning of the war, they took over a huge theatre from which many variety shows, such as Music Hall and Happidrome, were performed. Blocks of tickets for these ...

... THE THREE MEN WHO CARRIED OUT THE FINAL OVERTHROW OF THE AXIS IN NORTH AFRICA: GENERAL ALEXANDER, during his visit to First Army Headquarters before the great Round up, confers in the open air with GENERAL ANDERSON (in beret) and AIR MARSHAL CONINGHAM Not only is the campaign in North Africa actually over it is also officially over Mr. Attlee declared this last week in the House of Commons. ...