... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- MADAME KOLLONTAY, Russia's envoy in Sweden, for being the only woman Am= bassador in the world, and a maker of history. During her lunch Mme. Kollontay receives an urgent telegram. On the wall are specimens of the newest porcelain products of the Soviet. The Soviet Ambassador to Stockholm likes to arrange the spring- tulips and other flowers herself. Meal-times are not ...

... . SUBADAR LA.LBAHADUR THAPA, 2nd King Edtvard VII.'s Own Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army, is the Gurkha oflicer tcho teas awarded the V. C. last year for his exploit of unsurpassed bravery on the night of April 5-6, 1943, during the silent attack on the Rass-el-Zouai feature. He led a small party up a steep guUy and up the cliffs of the arena under withering fire, and his outstanding leadership and ...

... X. . X SALLY GRAY plays the title-role in 44 My Sister Eileen at the Savoy. Both the Sherwood girls sister heroines of this American comedy by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov are devastating, but Eileen is completely irresistible and her magical charm lands the pair in many a farcical muddle. The evening performances of the shotv by the t coy, now start at 5.30 p.m. and are over by 7.45 p.m. ...

... . Busman's holiday. Mrs. Mopp listens to one of her own recordings. A keen reader of Dickens, she has a grand collection of his hooks. T) ICTURES of the chattering char of ITMA 44 Mrs. Mopp happily follow those of her Boss, Tommy Handley, in our last issue. In private life she is MISS DOROTHY SUMMERS, with a delight- fill house in Devonshire Terrace, where the photographs were taken, and where ...

... ELEGANCE AND ECONOMY A UTILITY TRIUMPH Designers and manufacturers have something to be proud of in the utility models they have created this year. Would you guess that this girl is wearing a coat, which cost only £4 10s. 9d. It is one of Selcourts' latest designs, and is being sold by Swan and Edgar in their Stock Size Department. Made of tweed mixture, it comes in shades of brown and white, ...

... You are in pocket in more than one sense when you wear a GOR-RAY Skirt with the new ZWOW Pocket. The old, ugly placket has gone. In its place you have an unbroken hip line and on the other side, an attractive, man-style pocket. There are no buttons or metal gadgets to cause hip bulge and although the skirt fastens at the waistband, under-garments cannot possibly show through. Good drapers ...

... MRS. DONALD CAMERON and IAIN, wife and son of Lieut. Donald Cameron V.C. R.N.R. Twelve -months -old IAIN with his mother, MRS. CAMERON, and his grandmother MRS. KILPATRICK. IAIN enjoys the sunshine and sea breezes. There is room in his pram /or his favourite friend, Mosken, the retriever. MRS. CAMERON and IAIN are looking at a voter-colour sketch by Lieut. Cameron, I .e.. of one of Mrs. ...

... . Prix au detail. W.A.A.F. OFFICERS study the day's prices chalked on the board at JlI Biar market, icith a view to their A less. Left Section Officer Robertson and F/0. 1 Cnlvenvell help local inhabitants at a near-by nursery to pick chrysanthemums for market. On a shopping expedition outside Algiers are (I. to r.) Section Officer U. A I. Robertson, pre war cookery expert Section Officer J. ...

... WAR CHIEFS, WEDDINGS, PLAYERS PEOPLE i IN THE NEWS. I Dancer DIANA GOULD has been in Cairo, playing in The Merry Widow with Cyril Ritchard and Madge Elliott. She 's Admiral H ar court1 s stepdaughter. COLONEL GEORGE C. GORDON- LENNOX, aged thirty-five, com manding a battalion of the Grenadier Guards at Carrocelo, successfully directed a battle from a mattress, where he lay wounded. LIEUT. ...

... BRILLIANT SECOND EDITION: EVEN SWEETER AND LOWER AT THE AMBASSADORS. Thanks, Yanks, for just being herei and spreading good cheer HERMIONE GINGOLD and HENRY KENDALL, as the Statue of Liberty. 44 If I'd only never taken up the 'cello, I 'd walk beside you in the usual way HERMIONE GINGOLD burlesques celebrities in 44 'Cello Solo. 41 Vienna Lingers On Fritzi (HERMIONE GINGOLD) asks BONAR ...

... Lee (FRED MacMURRAY) and Jane (PAULETTE GODDARD) cant find hotel accommodation so go out as cook and butler. Jane forgets to cook the dinner for her employers, so Lee tosses up flapjacks. Jane Rogers and Lee Stevens are only masquerading as cook and butler, but their love-affair is the real things Jane has got her man all right. Jane Rogers, who has engaged herself and Lee Stevens in domestic ...

... I'm Peter, the Squirrel, I'm SELFRIDGES pride Learn thrift from me, lad/ By walking inside. I teach coupon-Saving, I m nuts at the task My Advice Bureau* answers Whatever you ask! THE COUPON ADVISORY BUREAU IS ON THE GROUND FLOOR QUALITY clothks fk ox (V tzf ail ore J /A JUNPEK ^.'1 SUITS f Lm B We would like to show you our very V fine collection of Jumper Suits in various styles frpm £12. ...