... WORK AND PLAY, A WEDDING AND A W.A.A.F, SHOl PEOPLE AND WHAT THEY ARE DOING. These BEACH UMBRELLAS were designed for dolce far niente days, HE but they now shade welders at work on plates for the 225th ship built IE in the yards of the California Shipbuilding Corp. now called Calship Beach. CORPORAL IDA BROOK, W.A.A.F., is posed with a doll in W.A.A.F. uniform, exhibited at the W.A.A.F. Arts ...

... . Everything points to an important film career for eighteen-year-old OONA O'NEILL CHAPLIN. The daughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill, she recently married world-famous film star Charles Spencer Chaplin, who in 1918 founded the Charlie Chaplin Film Corporation and built his otvn Hollywood studios, where many famous pictures have been produced. Mrs. Chaplin made her acting debut in a road ...

... - LIEUT.-COLONEL CASS S. HOUGH, D.S.O., U.S. Air Force, recently made a vertical dive in a 'plane at 780 miles an hour, beating the velocity of sound by twenty feet a second. His knees shook as the speed indicator passed 750 miles an hour. He made the test to discover the controllability of aircraft in high-speed dives, and to establish a recovery technique which can be taught. His speed was ...

... DECORATIVE MODERN MURAL3 AT AN R.A.F. STATION LANDSCAPE, MYTHOLOGY ANC PORTRAITURE. THESE spirited murals decorate the Officers' Mess at an R.A.F. Station in England. They arc the work of A.C.2 WINSLADE, and include a| landscape with 'planes grounded and taking off, and heroic figures of pilots, I and a seascape with 'planes in (light, and the Winged Victory a Jolly Bacchuil calling all ranks ...

... WOMEN IN WARTIME CLASSIC TAILORED SUITS OFF-WHITE LLAMA COATS SIMPLE DRESSING-WRAPPERS WOMEN in general are never seen to greater advantage than in a classic tailor-made, which, of course, must be well-cut and neat. Included in Debenham and Freebody's (Wigmore Street) collection is the suit pictured above. Emphasis must be laid on the fact that there is only a limfted number of each individual ...

... WHY WORRY ABOUT RAYON WHEN YOU CAN HAVE COTTON LIKE THIS I This American glamour girl has worn out all her silk and rayon stockings but she doesn't worry. Her legs are clad in cotton, but the stockings are very special and provide tangible proof that wartime restrictions cannot put an end to 44 this fashion nonsense. A new U.S. Government ruling standardised rayon hose but a fashion-wise ...

... WORK OF LASTING VALUE TO TH NATION: THE W.A.A.F. OFFICERS' TRAINING SCHOOL. THE work of the W.A.A.F England town is sometl W.A.A.F. officers are there tri qualities of leadership are one education ensures development two sides to the work of the St recommended for commissions a necessary for their duties. D so they are not kept indoors fo School's work consists of refresh It is interesting to ...

... PRIZE VEGETABLES GO DANCING- RADIO CITY'S VICTORY GARDEN BALLET. MISS FLORENCE ROGGE arranged a few of her prize vegetable ballerinas at a dress rehearsal of Victory Garden:'' John Peel the potato boy in action on the stage with The Parsley Sisters (aren't they coy?). ...

... CITY SPORTS GROUND- FOUNDED BY THE LUFTWAFFE I This magnificent sports ground in front of St. Paul's Cathedral may be said to have been founded by the Luftwaffe, for it has been constructed on a bombed site by members of the National Fire Service t corking in their spare time. The Holiday Garden Party and Sports Meeting held there is said to be the first Garden Party to be given in the City ...

... THEY COULDN'T GET HIM COVERED -THOUGH IT RAINED! BOB HOPE, famous entertainer, film-star and radio favourite, is over here with a company which includes Frances Langford, Jack Pepper, Sonny Miller and Toni Romano, in order to give shows for the U.S. troops. Here he is giving an outdoor entertainment in spite of the rain, as there was no hall in the vicinity large enough to accommodate the huge ...

... SHE HAS A LEG BETTY OF THE PATTERN LIMBS. T IKK Meredith's celebrated character, Sir Willoughby Pattern, Betty Grable certainly *J has a leg in fact, she has two of the most perfect limbs in all Hollywood. In her new 20th Century Fox Technicolor musicale Coney Island (for which the term M usicolossal is officially used!) ten separate routines on these famous legs are featured. The show *s due ...

... As you know, Robinson's have had to give up making their Barley Water in bottles for the duration of the war. As a result the making of barley water from Robinson's 'Patent' Barley has again become popular. Many people have consulted me on the question of flavour and I've recommended juice from stewed or tinned fruit, a little honey or jam, and perhaps best of all a dash of lemonade power. ...