... . 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 ...

... . 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 ...

... . 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 ...

... 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 ...