... ff7 ise fiords Your EXTREMITIES are your bugbear in winter, icy fingers and numb toes. If you can manage to keep your circulation pumping briskly right down into fingers and toes you will avoid many little shivers. Wear socks on your toes if they are stationary and if you are in the damp or out in bad weather, try to get socks made of the greasy wool such as is used for seamen's stockings. ...

... . This is probably one of the biggest groups of headline names ever assembled together before the camera. Louis B. Mayer, the boss of M.-C.-M., is seated in the centre of the front row, surrounded by his most famous artists. See how many of them you can recognise, and, if in doubt, turn to page 302 for the key. N.B. A Coloured pi* u inserted in this issue ...

... m i ivMknaMm J W/k IB vH GB i Hy WUmMm The right kind of pocket, in the right place, on the right side that's the ZWOW, a feature of GOR-RAY Skirts which pleases smart women with the modern outlook. No ugly placket, no buttons or other fasteners to cause hip bulges or gaping. Drapers and Stores everywhere stock GOR-RAY Skirts in various styles. HH Issued by C. STILLITZ, Royal Leamington Spa, ...

... Flesh and Fantasy Being the Three Dreams of Mr. Robert Benchley It is the time of Mar di Gras. Henriette Betty Field), embittered because she lacks, beauty is about to take her life. She is stopped by an old man who urges her to ivear the mask of a beautiful woman. Wearing the mask she dances with her lover Robert Cummings). At midnight the mask falls off, and to her joy Henriette discovers ...

... 0.. A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country Hiding to Honnds WHILE staying with her grandmother, Queen Mary, at her wartime country home, Princess Elizabeth had her first outing with hounds. Disappointingly, there was no kill, but the Princess, who has a fine natural seat, enjoyed the experience very much indeed, and will without doubt be seen out again when the opportunity arises. With the ...

... Mme. Katina Paxinou The Leading Lady of the Greek Theatre in Her First Hollywood Role Mmc. Katina Paxinou, first lady of the Greek Theatre, has jumped into the fore most ranks of screen stardom with her brilliant performance as Pilar, the force behind the guerrilla band around which centres the interest in For Whom the Bell Tolls. Mme. Paxinou came to England in the early days of the war, and ...

... Two Over the Eight Of Ten Little Niggers Only Two Survive nagine a lonely island off the Devon coast imagine ten people, itherto unknown to each other, gathered there; imagine their t actions when each discovers that a guilty, conscience-stricken past is common to them all imagine their feelings when one by ^ne their number is diminished by accident and untimely death nagine their suspicion ...

... I Old Lace l The Queen Visits the Red Cross Exhibition and Sale When the Queen arrived at Claridges for the Ex hibition and Sale of old lace, held in aid of the Red Cross, she was re ceived by the chairman, Marie Marchioness of Willingdon, Field-Mar shal Sir Philip Chetwode and Lord Iliffe, and her Majesty made purchases at every stall. The Duchess of Gloucester was another visitor The Duchess ...

... Sharing a Cottage Mrs. Henry Carden, Mrs. James Maxwell and Her Children A pair of sisters, Mrs. James Maxwell and Mrs. Henry Carden, live together in a fourteenth century cottage near Winchester. They are the daughters of Col. T. E. St. C. Daniell, O.B.E., M.C. Mrs. Maxwell has two children, three-year-old Sarah, and Adrian, aged six months. Mrs. Carden was married this year to Lt.-Col. Henry ...

... An Elementary Flyine Trainine School Front row F/Os. A. C. Motte, A. W. Roper, R.A.A.F., J. B. Miller, J. F. Dean, F/Lts. J. C. Grace, the Hon. E. A. Strutt, F/O. V. G. Ward, F/Lt. W. D. Brinsden, S/Ldr. W. H. R. Whitty, W/Cdr. T. C. Chambers, A.F.C., Lt.-Cdr. J. W. Hawkins, R.N., F/Lts. F. Holt, A.F.C., C. A. Ogilvy, F/O. D. L. Muir-Simpson, F/Lt. W. L. Rodger, P/O. W. D. Penny, Mr. H. B. ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen Rabbits as an Escape EDWARD LEDWARD, hero of Monica Dickens's The Fancy (Michael Joseph; 10s. 6d.), has to sustain both a difficult working day and the doubtful comforts of genteel suburban home life. As to his looks, we are given only one clue-- one of the girls at the factory, the first time she saw him, thought him a little like Conrad Veidt-- but his character, ever more ...

... WAY OF THE WAR By Foresight Rumours THERE'S a lot of peace talk in the air. Rumours from Lisbon and Stockholm and Ankara all tell the same story of soundings which Germans have been making. There may, or may not, be some truth in these stories. But bombs have begun to fall on Berlin once again, which shows what the Allied leaders think; and they ought to know. Air Marshal Harris's winter ...