... 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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... 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 ...

... . This grim determined, Wellsian mask conceals the charm of a GIRL ACETYLENE WELDER hard at work in a shipyard, guarded against the sparks that fly as she plies her trade. Splendidly the girls are crowding to the yards more and more every month to release men for the fighting fronts. Electric welding and wiring riveting, painting .and french polishing are just a few of the skilled trades in ...

... STAGE DOOR CANTEEN STAR DEBUTANT. YEHUDI MENUHIN, world-famous violinist who raised £30 000 for war charities by his concert tour over here in the early part of the year, is a film debutant. He appears as himself in the picture STAGE DOOR CANTEEN/* due at the Odeon, Leicester Square, on September 17, and is the musical high-light of the picture, in which forty-eight famous artists and ...

... . Rothbart the Evil Magician (NIGEL DESMOND), and his daughter Odile (BERYL GREY) enter the ballroom. Odile is disguised as Odette. The Princess Mother (JOY NEWTON) with her son, Prince Siegfried (DAVID PALTENGHI), in the ballroom scene. Four of the six Court Ladies Elizabeth Kennedy, Lorna Mossford, Mavis Jackson, Moyra Fraser, Moira Shearer and Paula Dunning. ALEXIS RASSINE and ANNE ...