... Out to Dinner Snapshots Taken at Two London Restaurants Major and Mrs. Ian Menzies and W/Cdr. Peter Kooch de Gooreynd were a threesome at Ciros one night Sir Robert Renwick, of the Ministry of Aircraft Production, was dining at the Bagatelle with Lady Renwick and AirlCdre.and Mrs. R. B. Jordan Lady Caroline Spencer-Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough's second daughter was at Ciros with the ...

... Britain's First Woman Diplomat Miss Mary Craig McGeachy Canadian-bom Miss Mary Agnes Craig McGeachy, first British woman to receive diplomatic status, has now taken up her new duties as Chief of the Welfare Division of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. She has resigned her post of First Secretary at the British Embassy in the United States, to which she was appointed ...

... Uct Cu A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country The Army Says Good-bye Mr. IRVING BERLIN'S spectacular, success ful, all-soldier musical has ended its tour of this country with a special performance at His Majesty's Theatre. The show has been seen in all parts of the country by more than a quarter of a million people, and British Service charities will benefit by Mr. Berlin's great generosity ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen Late Starter WE have to be thankful, in these days, that austerity and utility have not laid their chilly hands too com pletely on book production. They have, it is true, touched it, but they have damaged it less than one might expect. Books have slimmed, though their content, in point of actual numbers of words, is not less than before the war. One must take off one's ...

... Jnyce Barbour is in A Soldier for Christmas 99 Joyce Harbour has a part after her own heart in Reginald Beckwith's comr at Wyndharn s and looks like fepeating her 44 George and Margaret success. In private life the wife of Richard Bird, Joyce is as much at home in straight comedy as she is in musical. Her last appearance was in 44 Take It Easy Alexander Bender Oiane Gardiner the young premiere ...

... -/4 By Sabretache Militarism PERHAPS, under the prevailing circumstances, it was a virtual certainty that we should turn from being a harmless nation of shopkeepers into a savage and warlike tribe hardly safe to be allowed at large without muzzles. But happily, or unhappily, so it is, and our old repose and serenity seem to have been exchanged for a positively dangerous snappishness. The more ...

... Officers of a Fleet Air Arm Station Somewhere in the North Front row Pay/Cdr. I. T. Rees, Cdr. E. W. Beetham Capt. V. N. Surtees, Major F. B. Brown (R.M.), Lt./Cdr (E.) H. Bott. Second row Major J. Ballantyne Came r anions), Pay/Lt.-Cdr. N. J. Rowlatt (R.N.V.R.), Lt./Cdr. C. R. G Wilkinson D. R. Stuart Officers of the Directing Staff of an Infantry Division's Battle School Front row Capts. J. ...

... Plain or Patterned, It 's the Fringe That Gives the 1944 Look Here is yet another form of fringe-- the mate rial itself frayed and knotted. This is Dorville's idea, and in the form of a scrub- green scarf adds a touch of inspiration to the seve rity of the plain navy dress with which it is worn. Delivery not a very cer tain factor in life to-day should bring this model to Harrods in April or ...

... -^elerJiniri S -^elerJiniri S ^^eeloaL Elegance in J ersey 1 °r cn' spying collection of attractive jersey suits and dresses Smart simplicity is the keynote of this spring jumper suit in fine wool jersey. Black, nigger, navy or platinum grey. Two sizes (12 coupons) (Knitwear Department-- First Floor) -,MAM44M. WIGMORE STREET, W.I (Dawm'Si I ...

... As Coinmaiidunt of the \Y omen's Royal Naval Service the Duchess of Kent spends much of her time visiting the various branches of the Service, and inspecting: units throughout the country. She has many other activities besides. In 1940, after a three months' course at University College Hospital, she qualified as a V.A.D. nurse, and two years later became President of the hospital in ...

... WAY OF THE WAR By Foresight Waiting THERE is always a tendency towards public anxiety when military develop ments do not unfold in plain and straight forward fashion. We have seen it once more in relation to the Italian campaign, particularly in the case of the Anzio bridgehead. The land ing at Nettuno came as a pleasant surprise, and most people have been unable to understand why it was not ...

... Murder Most Foul The Macabre Mysteries Of The Lodger Revived Twenti h Century film The Lodger is based on the well-known mystery novel Marie Bclloc-Lowndes. It is the story of a mysterious doct ...