... ROYAL, NAVAL, MILITARY AND SPORTING 1EWS OF THE WEEK IN PICTURE FORM. H.R.H. the DUCHESS OF KENT took the salute at a Youth Week Parade at Leeds. The LORD MAYOR OF LEEDS (MISS J. B. KITSON) and the EARL OF HAREWOOD are with her on the steps. This smiling WREN works at the repair depot of a landing-craft base where the training of our Amphibious Forces is in progress. The Chariot race at a ...

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- THE epic story of WING-COMMANDER G. P. GIBSON, V.C., D.S.O. and Bar, and his force of Lancaster bombers which wrecked the three Ruhr dams made May history. Last week he attended at Buckingham Palace with his wife, to receive his brilliantly- won V.C., and a Bar to the D.S.O. handed to him by the Queen, who deputised for the King, then abroad. COLONEL MALCOLM C. GROW, ...

... GRAVE AND LIGHT-HEARTED, WORK AND rLAi STABILITIES OF THE WEEK AND THEIR DOINGS. ADMIRAL LORD LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN, Chief of Combined Operations, and LADY LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN attended the premiere of 44 We Dive at Dawn, in aid of the R.N. Benevolent Fund. I 1 M I II 'VHmtmMWmt IT 1 f Wk j Jj WING COMMANDER W. RUDD teas judge of the ankles competition at the garden party' held by plotter W.A.A.F.s ...

... FROM WAR TO WAR: THE LIFE 11 D DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP. Brilliant young British officers of 1902 Lieut. Clive Candy, V.C. (ROGER LIVESEY) and Lieut. Hopuell (DAVID HUTCHESON), heroes of the Boer War. Edith Hunter (DEBORAH KERR), British governess in Berlin and official 44 reason for Clive's duel finds him bandaged, but all thumbs-up. Clive as the complete Colonel Blimp. Colonel Blimp is ...

... WOMEN IN WARTIME i THE IMPORTANCE OF COLOUR THE SHORT EVENING DRESS PRACTICAL ECONOMY IN the new collections, if so they may be called, colour and simplicity are very important. Debenham and Freebody, Wigmore 'Street, are making a feature of House Coats which are a glorified version of the time-honoured wrapper they are semi-fitting, with full skirts. The model above has been designed by this ...

... MRS. LORNE MacLAINE CAMPBELL is the wife of Major temporary Lieut. -Colonel Lome MacLaine Campbell, V.C., D.S.O., T.D., Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. He won the V.C. for his gallantry at Wadi Akarit, when as described in one of the longest official citations of the war, he gave a display of valour and utter disregard for personal safety which could not be excelled. He won the D.S.O. in ...

... . 1V/T AGIC CARPET, Firth Shephard's new 1VJL musical extravanganza at the Princes Theatre, is a gay, colourful show, full of comic in vention and enlivened by first-class acrobatic dancing by the Ganjou Brothers and Juanita, Marguerite and Charles, and the somersaulters Valyne and Lontay. Sydney Howard is superb as Miss Finchbottom.of the Bon Marche, a Tender foot, an A.B., and in other well ...

... CYRIL RITCHARD AND MADGE ELLIOTT- STAGE PRINCE AND MERRY WIDOW. PHOTOGRAPHS BY CECIL BEATON. AN out facing page we give photographs of MADGE ELLIOTT and CYRIL RITCH ARD as they are at home here they are pictured as Sonia and Prince Danilo as they appear on the stage in the revival of Franz Lehar's musical comedy, 44 The Merry Widow, at His Majesty's. This famous piece was originally seen in ...

... THE LITTLE FROCK SUMMER CYCLING SUITS BRUSHED MOHAIR SWEATERS EVERYTHING in the sportswear department at Harvey Nichols, Knightsbridge, is neat and practical. There are frocks for the very warm weather, one of which is illustrated above. Carried out in fancy rayon showing an artistic and cheerful design, it has short sleeves, and the cut is simple, hence it is easy to wash. In striking ...

... piVITIES. IN THE FRONT-PAGE NEW JFTHE WEEK: NOTABLE PEOPLE AND THE! MARIAN PRESTON, youngest probationer at Northlands Nursery, G Harwood presented a rag doll 44 Pinocchio to the DUCHESS OF GLOUCES! for Prince William. MATRON and the CHAIRMAN are in the m The TWIN DAUGHTERS of FLT. LIEUT. HAROLD and MRS. HI came to church to see their grandfather the REV. R. J. PEYTC BURBERY, christen their ...

... I Swift silent and deadly a motor torpedo-boat speeding over the grey seas behind her own protective smoke-screen, which hides her from the enemy and helps her to elude danger. LIEUT. P. G. DICKENS, M.B.E., R.N., grandson of the famous novelist, is 44 king of an M.T.B. Flotilla. He 's a grand leader, daring and brilliant. Except for a little spray, there is no sign of bursting depth-charges. ...

... FOREVER AND A DAY -FILM SAGA OF A HOUSE AND ITS INHABITANTS FROM 1804 TILL 1943. Old Admiral Trimble (C. AUBREY SMITH), who builds the house five miles from London in 1804 which provides the setting for the saga of his descendants The marriage of Bill Trimble son of the Admiral (RAY MILLAND), and Susan (ANNA NEAGLE). Bill is killed at Trafalgar, but leaves a son. Susan and Mrs. Trimble (DAME ...