... 44 Lottie Dundass a Psychological Thriller A Play of Mother Love and Inherited Inhibitions by the Author of National Velvet Ann Todd plays Lottie Dundass daughter of a homicidal maniac, granddaughter of a famous actor, a girl whose inheritance has from the first marked her for tragedy. The weak heart she has always feared proves ultimately to be her greatest blessing The conversations of ...

... Ilobert llelpmann, Sadler's Wells choreographer and principal male dancer, must surely be one of the most versatile and gifted of all theatre personalities. Apart from his work for and with the ballet, he has lately been appearing in film- character parts (his latest role is that of the Bishop of Ely in Laurence Olivier's production of Henry V.), and now he is to add to his many interests by ...

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... The Countess of Ronaldshay and Her Children Marcus Adams The wife of Major the Earl of Ronaldshay was Miss Penelope Pike before her marriage in 1936. Her father. Colonel Ebenezcr Pike, C.B.E.VM.C., of Ditcham Park, Petersfield, Hants, is a Zone Commander in the Home Guard, and her mother, Mrs. Pike, is the well-known artist, Olive Snell, whose portraits frequently appear in The Tatler. Lord ...

... MYSELF AT THE PICTURES Tosh and Bosh By James Agate I LOOK around my acquaintance and marvel why A. endures B. I hate B. How could C. fall in love with D. ?D. is a fright, a bore and a vixen. Why was the C sharp minor Rachmaninoff Prelude a howling success when the others are so much better? Why do most playgoers prefer The Merchant of Venice to King Lear? And then I decide that A. endures B. ...

... At Home in Warwickshire Lady Dudley and Her Daughter Before her marriage to the Earl of Dudley last February, the f ountesa of Dudley was working as a part-time V.A.D., but now she is fully occupied running her husband's Warwickshire estate, Himley Hall. She is the second daughter of the Hon. Guy Charteris, and a sister of Lady O'Neill and Mrs. Roderick Thesiger. She was previ ously married to ...

... Four R.A.F. Pilots Portraits by Olive Snell F/Lt. G. R. Crakanthorp, D.F.C. Crackers was recently promoted, and now commands his flight. His coolness and courage have enabled him to perform some very daring feats in the air S/Ldr. E. A. Fairhurst D.F.C. S/Ldr. Fairhurst commands his squadron. He is an excellent pilot, and is extremely popular with his fellow officers and men i I V/Cdr. Lord ...

... Sir John Slessor A.O.C.-in-C., Coastal Command Last November, Air Marshal Sir John Cotcsworth Slessor, K.C.B., D.S.O., M.C., succeeded Air Chief-Marshal Sir Philip Joubcrt de la Ferte as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chicf, Coastal Command. Educated at Hailcybury, he served in the R.F.C. from 1915 to 1918. Two years later he became a Flight Lieutenant in the R.A.F., served for two years in India, ...

... Entertaining the Forces At Home and Abroad Josephine Baker, the famous coloured artiste, had a chat on the terrace of Shepheard's Hotel, Cairo with Mr. Basil Dean. He is Director of National Service Entertainment Noel Coward, the famous actor and author, was the guest of Lt.-Gen. Mason McFarlane, C.-in-C. and Governor of Gibraltar, when paying a short visit to the peninsula. He is seen with ...

... A Wedding Bouquel An Ashton-Berners Revival by the Sadler's Wells Ballet Another Ashton ballet was added to the current Sa Wells repertoire when A Wedding Bouquet was revived in, It came all the more piquantly out of its two years' retire by following fairly closely on the production of his creation, The Quest a juxtaposition of the two works u lines afresh Ashton's astonishing versatility. ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen Across the Channel NOT long ago, business took me into a restricted area-- a strip of the Kentish coast I have known since childhood. Here, west of Hythe, Romney Marsh begins, and one sees the great curve of the coast out to Dungeness. Inland lie the chalky South Downs. Leaving Folkestone, one almost drops from the high plateau-- then, above the coast road, run those smiling ...

... Flying Officer the Earl of Haddington, M.C., R.A.F.V.R., and his wife have two children, Lord Binning, who was born in 1941, and Lady Mary Baillie-Hainilton, aged nine, and their home is Tyningham, Prcstonkirk, East Lothian. Lord Haddington is the son of the late Brigadier-General Lord Binning, C.B., M.V.O., and succeeded his grandfather as the twelfth earl in 1917. He served in the last war ...