... JUNIOR PUPILS IN A PRACTICE PERFORMANCE Tuchkina leads the young dancers in the 44 Don Quixote ballet at the Bolshoi Theatre. A lesson in the FIRST ARABESQUE The teacher instructs a promising young pupil, Valya Lukinn while other embryo coryphees watch. Instep stretched, hands below the level of the shoulder 11 pupils Ai E MARIA LEONTEVA, well-known teacher, instructs young be bar A class of ...

... . PRINCESS ELIZABETH will be eighteen years old on Friday next April 21. and while not of age in the full legal sense she becomes, under the amended Regency Act of last year, a potential Counsellor of State. Her Royal Highness will now take a much larger part in public life a number of official tours have been arranged. Visiting South Wales with the King and Queen last month, she received from ...

... . rPHESE close-ups of members of the Royal Academy Selection Committee show them getting down to business, and considering some of the vast array of works submitted for exhibition at the R.A. Though their expressions indicate a high degree of concentration, they do not reveal any very violent reactions The D mounted on a stick which the newly-elected President, Mr. A. J. Munnings, holds, is ...

... ALL EYES ON THE CHANCELLOR SIR JOHN ANDERSON IN THE COUNTRY. APRIL 25 is the fateful day fixed for the Chancellor of the Exchequer to bring out his first Budget, and every one wonders which way the cat will jump. The RT. HON. SIR JOHN ANDERSON, P.C., G.C.S.I., K.C.B., Chancellor of the Exchequer since last year, was born 1882, and educated at George Watson's College, Edinburgh, Edinburgh and ...

... PICTURED NEWS-FAR-FLUNG WD HOME PRODUCED. STAKERS, mascot of H.M.S. 44 Starling looks elated at his connection with H.M. sloops of the Second Escort Group which commanded by Capt. J. F. Walker, C.B., D.S.O., in 44 Starling 44 killed six U-boats in the N. Atlantic. CAPTAIN QUENTIN ROOSEVELT, son of Brig.-Gen. Theodore Roosevelt, married MISS FRANCES WEBB, of Kansas City, recently in an English ...

... WIFE OF A V.C.; DAUGHTER OF A V.C-- THE HON. MRS. W. P. SIDNEY AND HER CHILDREN. THE HON. MRS. WILLIAM PHILIP SIDNEY is the only daughter of Field-Marshal Viscount Gort, V.C., Gover nor of Malta, and is the wife of Major William Philip Sidney, Grenadier Guards, who has been awarded the [Continued opposite. Continued .j Victoria Cross for his superb courage and utter disregard of danger at a ...

... LIVING VISITORS AT A GHOST INN THE HALF-WAY HOUSE. MICHAEL BALCON produced 44 The Half-Way House (Regal. Marble Arch), spooky story of a set of disgruntled people who singly find their way to and stay at a Welsh mountain inn which had been destroyed in an air raid the previous year. It is only when the B.B.C. nine o'clock news is turned on that they discover they have gone back a year in time ...

... Above Two-tone spots, cleverly harmonised, make up this new number of Chcsro's which combiues smartness with cool simplicity. Left For the country there is a simple variation of much the same idea. Here, pockets, like an American sailor's, give a gay new look, and tailored lines make for simple laundering all-important these days. Both these frocks are of a Tootal fabric and are specially ...

... - TWO daughters of the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, PRINCESS ELISABETH and PRINCESS MARIE- ADELAIDE, are busy training with other Belgian women as relief workers at a camp in this country for the day when their country is freed from the Huns1 stranglehold. Their work includes pitching tents, nursing, stretcher- carrying, rescue work and cooking over camp fires. Luxembourg was invaded and ...

... A HUGE FIELD FOR THE ROYAL ACADEMY- AND THE JUDGES. WHEN you visit the Royal Academy as most people do, whether the country is at peace or at war have you ever considered the Herculean labours of the Selection Committee of distinguished artists who have chosen the pictures for exhibition at Burlington House These photographs give some idea of the tough task which they have to face, for they ...

... A FOURTH view of H.R.II. PRINCESS ELIZABETH, as seen by Her Royal Highness comes of age oil April 21 her eighteenth hif' absence of the King, she does not coinc of age in the full legal sensy Royal duties has been carefully arranged, and will he increased oftcr troops with the King and Queen a forerunner of visits and tours I! under the Nutional Service Act when she was sixteen, Princess Em* I ...

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