... Growing Up The Princesses at a Theatre with the Queen Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret went with the Queen to a special performance of J. M. Barrio's What Every Woman Knows, at the Lyric Theatre, a short time ago, given in aid of the Greater London Fund for the Blind. Princess Elizabeth, now seventeen years old, takes an increasingly active part in public life, and frequently ...

... A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country Ascot Without Frills AUSTERITY Ascot! What a contrast to the Ascot we have always known! No grey toppers, no elaborate creations, no glitter ing limousines crawling slowly-- how slowly-- along the High Street. The Royal Enclosure thrown open as a public enclosure! In fact, there were no Members at all. There was a turnstile as you went in; you paid ...

... Wedding at St. Margaret's Lt. E. F. Russell and Lady Sarah Spencer-Churchill The Duke of Marlborough gave away his daughter, Lady Sarah Spencer- Churchill, at her marriage to Lt. Edwin F. Russell, United States Navy, which took place at St. Margaret's, Westminster, on May 15th. Lady Sarah is the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough's eldest daughter, and the bridegroom is the eldest son of Mr. and ...

... The Tatler and Bystander's Review of Weddings Harker Campigli Capt. Robert K. S. Harker, R.A., only son of Mr. K. F. Harker, of Haisthorpe Hall, Driffield, East Yorkshire, married Kathleen Patricia Campigli, elder daughter of Lt.-Col. and Mrs. G. M. Campigli, of Dunsley, Milford-on-Sea, at St. James's, Spanish Place Squire Stevens Jeannotte William Arthur Squire Stevens M.R.C.V.S., only son ...

... B1 M E. BROOKE The housecoat has achieved a great success in the salons of Debenham and Freebody, Wigmore Street, where a great variety of models may be seen. The one portrayed above is of a silken material in a perfectly glorious colour scheme in which are subtly blended sunset as well as orange and unusual mimosa tints. It is just one of those affairs which cannot fail to please. The coat ...

... BUBBLE ami SQUEAK Stories from Everywhere HERE is a typical American story: Police Officers Blair and Shor were driving round in a radio patrol car. It was a delightful day, and the two minions of the law were quite con tented as they talked of football, and the latest movies, and who the next commissioner would be. Suddenly over their radio came a call for them. Calling car 34, the voice ...

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... The Drama Marches On The Old Theatre Royal, Bristol, Saved from Oblivion by the State, Reopens with a Flourish and an Old Vic Performance of She Stoops to Conquer, Mightily Pleasing to the Citizens of the Town and the Ghosts of Siddons, Kemble, Kean and Irving May 11th was a big day for Bristol. Down by the docks, heavily pounded by Hun bombs, past debris and desolation, something stirred ...

... -^4 By Sabretache e,iuare Pegs, Square Holes! ONE of the most difficult problems which face those who are intimately connected with winning this war is the placing of the right man in the right place at the right noment. Von Clausewitz, Napoleon, Mr. Bevin and some others have remarked upon this diffi culty many a time. It demands genius. I produce a classic instance of sheer inspiration. Six ...

... MYSELF AT IMF PICTURES A Naval Occasion By James Agate THERE was a period in my life when I was inclined to make too much of a certain French actress. So much so that I was rebuked by no less a person than Sir Max Beerbohm who wrote: You may say, 'one can't hear too much about Sarah.' But I, in my blunt Yorkshire way (for I am Yorkshire on the distaff side), reply: 'Lad, one can.' Similarly ...

... Cole Porter Supplies the Score for Something to Shout Ahout, Another Hollywood Back- Stage Musical on the Grand Scale (Tivoli and New Gallery) Janet lir (the blonde of My Sister Eileen'''') steps out in Hasta Luego, a rumba r. iber on the usual grand scale. The vaudeville shoiv includes Hazel Scott's p o pyrotechnics and a troupe of performing dogs called The Bricklayers f 'f 1 Words in the ...

... The one-day May meeting on May 15th, the first to be held at Ascot since the war, was attended by a very large crowd of people, many of whom arrived on bicycles. The King and Queen were there to see His Majesty's colt, Tipstaff, run. For the first time in history the Royal Enclosure was open to the public, and many members of British and Allied Forces were among the crowd Miss D. Paget's ...