... . PHOTOGRAPH BY F. J. GOODMAN. MME. LUCIA DE STTAU MONTEIRO is the wife of H.E. Dr. A. R. de S. Monteiro G.C.V.O., who has just resigned the post of Portuguese Ambassador. She was photographed outside her very attractive riverside house at Marlow, tchere she, her husband and their four children two boys and two girls stay from time to time. Mme. Monteiro speaks English fluently and has many ...

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- SUBADAR LALBAHADUR THAPA, V.C., of the 1/2 Gurkha Rifles, won the highest decoration for gallantry at the Battle of Akarit, in Tunisia, when, armed with his national weapon, the kukri, he destroyed several machine-gun posts. He was one of a party of thirty officers and men from Wavell's famous Fourth Indian Division which captured von Arnim who were recently entertained ...

... _ JDel)enJwm. 6 ^Ji-eeLodu _ JDel)enJwm. 6 ^Ji-eeLodu SMALL WOMAN This specialist department on the first floor is famous for its exclusive productions, designed and made by our own tailor, incorporating the perfection of cut, detail and finish so necessary for to-day's fashions. Illustrated is a classic town coat superbly tailored in line black wool, with novelty gold buttons. Langhatn 4444 ...

... A BATTLE OF BRITAIN PARTY; WEDDINGS; WAR-WORKERS. SUBALTERN MARY CHURCHILL inspected the chevrons on the sleeve of an American J V.A.C. ALICE MARBLE, of laicn tennis fame and our lawn tennis star MARY HARDWICK, are on the left Left GROUP CAPTAIN G. MALAN, D.S.O., D.F.C., replied for the fighter pilots at the lunch in celebration of the Battle of Britain held at Simpson s Services Club. MISS ...

... STRICTLY IN CAMERA: CECIL JON PLAYS WITH EFFECTS- PERSONAL AH OTHERWISE. J list between ourselves. Cecil Beaton takes himself in focus with an out-of -focus decor, casually and without apparent meaning. Surrealism at sea. Reflections in a yacht's ventilator distort the photographer, who waves his Mexican hat above his head, thus helping in the creation of u pattern, where every detail is of ...

... WOMEN IN WARTIME PULL-OVERS WITH A DIFFERENCE MANY BLOUSES ONE SKIRT WORSTED TAILOR-MADES m THERE are many ways of practising economy pleasantly. Several may be seen in the collection of original models at Jays, Regent Street. Perfectly cut and extremely useful is the suit portrayed above. It is carried out in grey fancy worsted with a love-in-the-mist blue stripe. It consists of a dress and ...

... TO MARRY THE AIR C.-IN-C. MEDITERRANEAN FLIGHT OFFICER BLACK. It is reported in the 44 Daily Mail, the 44 Evening Standard and the 44 Star that the engagement of FLIGHT OFFICER MARIE BLACK, W.A.A.F., to Air Chief- Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, K.C.B., will shortly be announced. Thirty-five-year- old Flight Officer Black is the younger daughter of the late Colonel Sir Bruce Selon, Bt., of ...

... f BALLET WITHOUT COUPONS. Wit and grace characterise this aptly-titled picture from the London Salon of Photography, which is holding its thirty-fourth annual exhibition at the R.W.S. Galleries, Conduit Street. ROM THE PHOTOGRAPH BY E. HEIMANN. ...

... The penguin provides an appealing subject for the artist but fete camera-men have succeeded in finding a more perfect pose than this or in naming it more happily It is one of the admirable studies on vietc at the London Salon of Photography Exhibition. FROM THE PHOTOGRAPH BY A. N. ACRAMAN. ...

... t4rpHE WINGLESS VICTORY, by Maxwell Anderson, was J- recently produced at the Phoenix Theatre. It is a period piece set in the year 1800, the tragedy of a New England sea-captain who marries a Malay Princess and brings her home to his native Salem. His Puritan family, bigoted and resentful, make life a torment for Nathaniel and Oparre. Finally he banishes his wife, who then recalls her royal ...

... MERLE OBERON (in private life, Lady Korda) and DAME MAY WHITTY introduce Chinese airmen to the boys in the canteen. GEORGE RAFT does his bit as a washer-up at the famous Stage Door Canteen Stage and screen actress HELEN HAYES helps to entertain two sailors and introduces them to a Junior Hostess. GYPSY ROSE LEE, the celebrated striptease,' does her act for the benefit of the enthusiastic boys ...

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