... ^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 ...

... IT is always pleasant to visit Harrods, Knightsbridge, as it is a storehouse of fashions which are in harmony with the times. The simple frock on the left is made of a fancy summer fabric which suggests a crepe. It has an off-white ground showing an original design, and is available in many colour schemes. A few words must be said about wedding frocks, some of which are of satin and others of ...

... DIEPPE (painted for the nation's war records.) by Richard Eurich, A.R.A. (Admiralty Artist) LONDON TRIUMPHANT IN THE FOURTH YEAR OF WAR. FROM THE DORCHESTER ROOF, LOOKING SOUTH-EAST by C. R. W. Nevinson A.R.A. NUDE Pencil by A. K. Lawrence R.A. DESTROYER PICKING UP SURVIVORS (painted for the nation's war records). by Richard Eurich, A.R.A. Admiralty ArtistM MUSIC by Steven Spurrier, A.R.A. ...

... . IRIS COOPER. TRISS HENDERSON. TINA ROBINSON. JEAN TELFER and EVETTE HUNTLEY. bo- LENI LYNN. IRMAN VERNAY. MERCIA YOUNG. MARIANNE LINCOLN. MARGARET McGRATH. PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROVE. GEORGE BLACK has introduced West End audiences to a delightful selection of mem bers of the rising generation of stage favourites in his show STRIKE A NEW NOTE, at the Prince of Wales. Here are ten of them, all as ...

... . A CAMRRA PORTRAIT BY MARCUS ADAMS, THE CHILDREN'S STUDIO, 43. DOVER STREET. The HON. MRS. SHERMAN STONOR is the wife of Major the Hon. Sherman Stonor, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire L.I., only son and heir of Lord Camoys, of Stonor Park, Oxon. Before her marriage in 1938 she was Miss Jeanne Stourton. The children are JULIA, THOMAS, GEORGINA, and baby HARRIET. Mrs. Stonor leads a busy life, ...

... The Standard Motor Co Ltd This fortitude The little Scotsman grunts as he hands over to the mate and, aching with fatigue, goes stiffly below. Cruising at' ten knots in convoy unceasing watch, merciless tension We can't all be incomparable Captains in the Mer chant Navy. But we can all be incomparable citizens doing our watch on the bridge, wherever it may be, with the same un faltering ...

... WEDDINGS, ENGAGEMENTS, ART AND OTHER SUBJECTS 'E01E AND NEWS OF THE WEEK REVIEWED BY CAMERA. The bridal 44 coach in which FLIGHT LIEUT. BASIL CHAPIN, D.S.C., R.A.F., and his bride MISS CHERRY BARKER, drove from the church after their wedding was an old governess cart. SU RG EON -LIEUT. J. W. FROST, R.C.N.V.R., and SECTION OFFICER J. LESLIE- CARTER, W.A.A.F., daughter of Mr. A. Leslie-Carter ...

... - MRS. BEATRICE WRIGHT, Con servative M.P. for Bodmin and Britain's youngest woman M.P., is the first M.P. to become a mother while an M.P. She is the wife of Captain Paul H. G. Wright, of the K.R.R.C. MORE than 3000 people attended the reception and ball held at the Seville Palace of the Duke of Alba, Spanish Ambassador to Britain, on the coming out of his only daughter, the seventeen-vear- ...

... . c [PHOTOGRAPH BY KARSH, OTTAWA.] MR. ANTHONY EDEN, British Foreign Secretary and MR. MACKENZIE KING, Canadian Premier faced the camera after Mr. Eden had addressed the Canadian House of Commons. Their faces radiate that 44 extreme satisfaction tchich Mr. Eden on his return to this country reported to have been felt by both sides after the conversations in the States and in the Dominion. He ...

... . MRS. ANDERSON, at her country home in Cambridgeshire, ichere she spends a good deal of time gardening. Mrs. Anderson who has just taken on a full-time war job as Assistant Commandant of a Red Cross hospital in the country. An at-home portrait of the wife of the commander of the victorious First Army, which took Tunis. SECOND SUBALTERN MRS. KAPLOVITCH, A.T.S., ttvenly-one-year-oU I of General ...

... EDUCATION FOR DEATH FILMED AS HITLER'S CHILDREN. n fr youth Professor Nichols (KENT SMITH) reads ichile via (BONITA GRANVILLE) and Karl chat to each other, and relax. Left: Karl, having attempted to rescue Anna from a public whipping is con fined in a military prison. He at last realises what the Nazi creed really jneans. ^°np' Htnkel (OTTO KRUGER) faces bitter disappointment tvhen he learns ...

... CUPID'S COMMANDO I JUDY CAMPBELL plays Joanna Lyppiatt in Noel Cotcard's 44 Present Laughter which alternates with his 44 This Happy Breed at the Haymarket. Joanna might well be called Cupid's Commando, for a more determined siren has never been depicted. Here she is arriving for a raid on Gerry Essendine's flat, determined to get her man. Her seduction equipment consists of a ravishing white ...