... CANADA'S INVASION COMMANDER- LT.-GEN. H. D. G. CRERAR. Last week LT.-GEN. H. D. GRAHAM CRERAR. C.B., D.S.O.. commanding the First Canadian Army Corps uith the British Eighth Armv in Italy, was appointed Commander of the First Canadian Army, and it is assumed that he will lead the Canadian forces in the Allied invasion of the Continent. In making the announce ment Colonel Ralston, Canada's ...

... 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 ...

... . GINGER ROGERS* new film is called 44 Lady in the Dark but there is nothing dim or sombre about the costumes sh ...

... KING PETER'S BRIDE THE QUEEN OF YUGOSLAVIA. PHOTOGRAPH BY CECIL BEATON. King Peter of Yugoslavia and PRINCESS ALEXANDRA OF GREECE were married recently at the Yugoslav Embassy London, hour monarchs attended the ceremony King George VI. tvho teas best man to his godson, the King llle tvho gave the bride away, the King of Norway, and the Queen of the Netherlands. The bride, who arm id with her ...

... PERSONALITIES OF THE WEEK AND NOTABLE EVENTS: PICTORIAL REVIEW OF LIFE AS WE LIVE IT TO-DAY. Service girls recuperating at a British Legion sanatorium have taken up toy-making. PETER, THE PET RABBIT, POSES AS A MODEL. Hospital nurses have to be ready to EVACUATE HELPLESS PATIENTS at a moment's notice. This is the method by which they are taken out of a ward without having to leave their beds. ...

... NO LONGER BRITTLE-- BUT PLIABLE AND ALMOST SILK- LIKE SCIENCE SPINS AND WEAVES GLASS TO SERVE MODERN NEEDS. She stands at the loom, but she is not spinning wool or cotton HER YARN IS MADE OF GLASS. It is passing through the leasing reed in the process of warping the yarn. The glass yarn is xcoven just as if it were cotton or woollen yarn. The operative is here refiling a shuttle with a pirn of ...

... . JACK LONDON, the novelist, led an adventurous life and his second wife, Char- mian Kittredge, has supplied the material to make an exciting United Artists film of his career (due at the Tivoli last Sunday, April 2). Before he was twenty-one, Lon don had been ranch- hand, sealer, oyster pirate, sailor, Klondyke gold operator and pro fessional revolutionist, and had worked in jute \ConUmud ...

... Watching the Changing of the Guard outside Buckingham Palace. On the left, a fitting coat of yellow hunting cloth with black and gold buttons, the collar, cuffs and pockets edged with black cloth, worn with a black felt halo beret £21 18s. lOd. (18 coupons). On the right, a black suit of light-weight 44 linton tweed the coat has two panels back and front, and the skirt, plain in front, has ...

... - LORD BRABAZON for being a political die-hard but a chessboard revolutionary. BORED with the series of opening gambits which have survived many centuries in the ancient game of chess, LORD BRABAZON recently suggested that the King and Queen should change places on the board. This, he said, would abolish all the stock openings dead men's openings which make the first third of each game a dull ...

... FILM-STARS' SWITCH-OVER DRESS SUIT INTO COAT FROCK. Fully frilled up at all the pre-war parties DICK POWELL and his icife JOAN BLONDELL, piped down like the rest of Hollywood after the events at Pearl Harbour. On the dressmaker's dummy the new dress takes shape. To get the best use of the trousers, they are turned bottom-side up, with the cuffs to form the waist-line. Joan took a look round ...

... HE PLANS OUR WAR FOOD SIR JACK AND LADY DRUMMOND AT HOME WITH ELIZABETH ANNE. SHORTLY before the outbreak of war SIR JACK DRUMMOND, D.Sc., F.I.C., was appointed Scien tific Adviser to the Ministry of Food, and it is he who has been largely re sponsible for plan ning our diet during the war years. In the New Year's Honours List he- was created Knight Bachelor for his services, though he has not ...

... The pub. bore about to embark on his long and apparently ridiculous murder story 44 Uncle Harry (MICHAEL REDGRAVE), with Miss Phipps (GRACE DENBEIGH- RUSSELL) and Mr. Jenkins (JOHN CLEVEDON). 44 Oh, Albert, Albert There you go vulgarising again Joshua D' Arcy (ARTHUR DAVIS), Uncle Harry, Harold Blake (HUGH STEWART) and Albert Sturgess (JOHN GARSIDE) enjoy glee-singing practice. 44 What have ...