... . TOMMY scrutinises the script of his next 1TMA broadcast in the comfortable surroundings of his London flat. He burnishes his brassie. Snodgrass a mechanical bulldog, is the family pet, much admired by MRS. HANDLEY. He was sent to Tommy by a fan. A spot of leisure with book and pipe. The Boss of ITMA, a talented pianist, pity5 a neiv tune to entertain his wife during one of his rare quiet ...

... . Film-star MARY MARTIN is the Venus of %i One Touch of Venus, the Broadway musical hit. She is starring opposite to Kenny Baker and has a number of first- rate song and dance numbers with him. Mary teas a dancer before she made her name as a vocalist. One of her recent successes was in H appy -Go- Lucky Technicolor musical, when she gave a modernised version of the old old sons Ta-ra-ra Boom ...

... . Young star of the Ballet Rambert, SARA LUZITA had the bad luck to strain her ankle and teas not dancing during the first three days of the Ballet Rambert season at the Mercury. However, she is back on the stage again. One of her finest parts is that of the Italian ballerina in 44 Gala Performance and she is a delicious Cuckoo in 44 The Carnival of Animals 44 ballet by Andree Hotcard the ...

... 44 My husband has always loved tall women. Brenda (JOAN HARBEN, r.) bores Lady Daubeny (SUSAN RICHMOND), Mrs. Ferguson (JOYCE BARBOUR), Mr. Ferguson (J. LESLIE FRITH) and Phoebe (PAULINE LETTS) with her troubles. 44 I think Mrs. Ferguson intended her rooms to be used singly Ronald Vines (TREVOR HOWARD) speaks his mind to Milly (MERIEL FORBES) and Private Bill Mackenzie (ROBERT BEATTY). I ...

... A LAURENCE OLIVIER plavs the King in Shakespeare's King Henry V, produced by Two Cities Films in Technicolor. The few alterations in the text arc minute and verbal, and the cuts even less frequent' than those made in stage productions. The shooting took place in and around the Anglo- Norman castle at Poteerscourt, Eire, specially chosen by Olivier as a suitable background. [PHOTOGRAPH BY ...

... - SOCIAL1ST GEORGE BERNARD SHAW-Ior managing to give £20,000 a year to pay for a war which he tried to scotch, in spite of belonging to a profession in which one lives precariously from hand to mouth. In a red-hot column-long letter to 44 The Times of February 1, lifelong Socialist MR. SHAW, icith the imminence of an April Budget 44 tchich threatens so many of us with financial ruin looming ...

... THE W.A.C.'S ARE HERE-- WITH ZOOT-SUITS AND 269 JOBS 44 Zoot-suited for work: a PARADE OF THE UNITED STATES WOMEN'S ARMY CORPS in Britain, with mess kits, on their way to the canteen. If you want to know a W.A.C.'s nickname, look at the back of her 44 Zoot-suit an amusing snapshot of American Service girls in England WAR CORRESPONDENT CHARLES SEAWOOD gets first-hand information from home, ...

... . Anthony Tudor s 44 Gala Performance is danced to music by Prokofiev. JOAN McCLELLAND, as Goddess of the Dance and MICHAEL BAYSTON are centre. SALLY GILMOUR, prima ballerina, for whom the pundits predict a brilliant future, with MICHAEL BAYSTON in a scene from 44 Les Masques.''* 44 Les Masques sophisticated Frederick Ashton ballet, to Poulenc*s music. In the box are ANNE ASHLEY and ROBERT ...

... CINDERA- FELLA- THE RAF. PANTO. OF TRUE LOVE. Cinderafella (CPL. DAISY SHARPE) goes to the ball in a Spitfire. Her up-to-the-moment godmother has produced it from an orange. CPL. HARRY LARK, M.M., and L.A.C.W. PEGGY MOORE os the Hon. Hollyhock and the Hon. Aspidistra Stoneybroke. the Ugly Sisters. CPL. BABS WILSON-HILL as the Premiere Danseuse sur rounded with her corps dc ballet of fairies. ...

... APPARELL D LIRE THE SPRING SUITS FOR THE FINE DATS THAT ARE COMING Berkeley Cartler'o choice is a reversible Scotch tweed. Mr. Cartier makes only to measure. He is at 30, Cork Street, W.l, and at Tunbridge Wells Nlcoll'ft of Regrent Street have used tan and brown check suiting for this trim turn-out. It can be bought in other combinations of colourings, too Dlckina and Jones have this Matita ...

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... . LADY LEESE is the wife of Lieut. -General Sir Oliver Leese, Bt., C.B., C.B.E.t D.S.O. who in January was appointed to command the famous Eighth Army, in succession to General Sir Bernard Montgomery, .the new C.-in-C., British Group of Armies under General Eisenhower. She is the only daughter of Major Cuthbert Leicester-Warren, of Tabley House, Knutsford, and was married in 1933. It was ...