... 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 ...

... . BRIGADIER GERALD LATHBURY, M.B.E., of the Paratroops teas decorated with the D.S.O. at a recent Investiture. He is seen leaving the Palace with MRS. LATHBURY. DR. J. A. PARTRIDGE wheeled his bride MISS FRANCESCO BROCK, daughter of the late Commander F. A. Brock, to her mother's house at Boxmoor after their wedding at St. John's Boxmoor. lain-- 1^-- SIR HENRY WOOD, here holding bundles of ...

... C LADY BARTLETT, JEMIMA and LUCY are granddaughter and great-granddaughters of the beautiful actress Lily Langtry the 44 Jersey Lily of Edwardian days. In 1937 Miss Mary Malcolm, as she then teas, only daughter of Sir Ian and Lady Malcolm of Poltalloch, married Sir Basil Bartlett now Lieut.-Colonel Intelligence Corps. He had then been on the stage for seven years, learning stage technique, in ...

... Debenham A Free body. I JlHfl ebenham A Free body, ^Hham 44+i Dfsidnecl and Made in our own Workrooms This charming jumper-suit is in a good quality satin- back black crepe with a novel self shadow-stripe; white pique gives a spring accent. To fit actual hip measurements 34. 36, 38, 40 and 42 ins. (10 coupons) 91 gnS. 44 and 48 ins. £10. 7 .0 Inexpensive Gown Dept. IVisrmore St., London, W.l ...

... HOLLYWOOD'S SHAPELIEST SHADOW-GIRL: WINNER ND RUNNERS-UP in a screen curvilinear contest. iv.a. coloured plate is inserted in tnts issue T T OLLYWOOD recently went on the hunt for the loveliest and most curvilinear feminine silhouette obtainable. It was wanted for the leading woman's part in R.K.O.'s new psychological horror film, 44 The Ghost Ship, in which she is seen only as a shadow ...

... . THE Academy Cinema, closed since the Battle of Britain, ha^ reopened with 44 Heart of a Nation a French film showing the passing of the years 1871-1940 over Paris, with its three attacks by Germany. It was completed three days before the Nazis marched into Paris. The invaders were well- informed by their Fifth Column, and destroyed any film which touched criticism of the Herrenvolk but Paul ...

... P.O.W. CAMP STAGES COWARD WORLD PREMIERE: POST MORTEM. OUR prisoners of war in Germany find play- producing one of the finest pastimes for their hours of enforced leisure. Learning their parts, making costumes and decor stimulate the imagination, and the talent these productions bring to light is universal and amazing. To help the men at Oflag Vll.b, Noel Coward gave them special permission ...