... . PHOTOGRAPHS BY KEYSTONE. General Bernard MONTGOMERY, of the famous Eighth Army, victor of North Africa and Commander of the British Forces in Sicily, paid a secret visit to England in May and was in this country for a fortnight. One of his most important engage ments was a visit to his only I son, DAVID BERNARD MONTGOMERY, who is at Amesbury School. Our photographs show the General ...

... PEG-BOARD TESTS TO KEEP SQUARE PEGS OUT OF ROUND HOLES I A MERICAN women applicants for war jobs are tried out by special intelligence tests which enable their general aptitude or special talents to be assessed, and help employers to avoid the danger of putting them in work to which they are temperamentally or physically unsuited. These tests seem pretty simple, but they are arranged in ...

... A PEG-BOARD TEST FOR MANUAL DEXTERITY The girl must pick the pegs up and arrange them on the other side of the board in the same pattern. TWEEZER DEXTERITY TEST This helps to rate the ability of a girl to work with small tools, as she has to pick pegs out of holes with small tweezers and rearrange them. The BLOCK TEST is a fairly simple try -out for quickness of hand. The girl has to put ...

... . GROUP CAPTAIN ADOLPH GYSBERT SAILOR MALAN, South African- born Ace R.A.F. pilot, won the D.F.C. at Dunkirk, and a Bar to it for night operations in 1940, and was awarded the D.S.O. for fighter operations over England and the Channel in the same year, and a Bar to it in 1941 for ops. over France. He also has the Croix de Guerre (avec Palme). Not long ago he entertained a thousand guests in ...

... BARBARA STANWYCK AS THE STRIPTEUSE HEROINE OF A BACK-STAGE MURDER THRILLER. BARBARA STANWYCK plays Dixie Daisy in STRIPTEASE LADY, the United Artists release picture version of Gypsy Rose Lee's best-seller novel G- String Murders which is due for presentation at the Odeon, Leicester Square, -on July 30. Gypsy Rose Lee is herself a famous American slripleuse and her thriller, with a bach ...

... DU BARRY WAS A LADY -AND VARGA'S MONTHS ARE GIRLS! VARGA'S LIVING CALENDAR, with every month portrayed by a lovely girl, is a feature of the M.-G.-M. Technicolor musical version of the stage show DU BARRY WAS A LADY, due at the Empire, Leicester Square, on July 30. The girls are (I. to r.J Aileen Haley, Kay Aldridge (seated). Hazel Brooks, Georgia Carroll, Eve Whitney (seated), Inez Cooper, ...

... CHINA'S FIRST LADY- MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK. MME. CHIANG KAI-SHEK, wife of China's Generalissimo, has arrived hack in Chungking from her long visit to America and Canada, where she put the case for more aid to China in lucid and eloquent English. Resides being an inspiration to her countrymen, China's First Ladv is very chic in appearance and wears her clothes elegantly like a Farisienne ...

... . AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE DAY was celebrated in Moscow. A concert of con temporary U.S.A. music was given in the big hall of the Moscow Conserva toire by the Soviet State Orchestra conducted by Honoured Artist of the U.S.S.R. Nathan Rachlin. Right LADY YULE'S film company, British National, have averaged eight pictures yearly since the war. These include 44 One of Our Air craft is Missing The ...

... . HERMIONE GINGOLD, star of Sweet and Low at the Ambassadors, has just moved into an attractive house in Kinnerton Street, Knightsbridge, so the celebration party she recently gave in honour of the success of the new show was also a house-warming. Miss Gingold writes a good deal of the material that she puts over so brilliantly, and is responsible for the amusing burlesque Arsenic and Old ...

... REGENCY FILM THE MAN IN GREY. Clarissa Marchioness of Rohan (PHYLLIS CALVERT; right J, finding her old schoolfellow Hester (MARGARET LOCKWOOD^ touring in a third rate repertory company, takes her back to London to stay with her Lady Rohan makes friends with her husband's new librarian Peter Rokeby (STEWART GRANGER), to whom she once gave a lift in her coach i chen he was a poor strolling ...

... MONTGOMERY'S LET'S FACE IT THEATRE FACE. During his visit to London in May undertaken in order to discuss matters of high importance GENERAL MONTGOMERY found time to go more than once to the theatre. He saw 44 Arsenic and Old Lace at the Strand and also went to the London Hippodrome where Bobby Howes was then appearing in 44 Let ys Face It. From our series of photographs of the General, ...

... - MR. AUGUSTUS JOHN, O.M. for his ready acceptance of a lemon from Sehorita Ana Carcano. CANVASSED at the Chilean Ambassador's fete by Sehorita Ana Carcano, daughter of the Argentine Ambassador, MR. AUGUSTUS JOHN, the painter, gaily bought a raffle ticket from her, the prize a lemon. The proceeds from side-shows and entertainments at Senor Don Bianchi's party all went to swell the coffers of ...