... w 1 The house of the future is every woman's topic. We discuss its every aspect, but throughout discussion it is the kitchen which i engages the most .attention. L Here is the very heart of the home, the place where women work and set in motion all A those activities which reflect A themselves in every corner of the house. Whatever the new home may prove to be, the kitchen, we are resolved, ...

... . ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■I 1-mHu THE KING and QUEEN and PRINCESS ELIZABETH visited a wartime nursery at Graigentinny School during their recent stay in Edinburgh. His Majesty held two Investitures at the Palace of Holyroodhouse. GROUP CAPTAIN PETER RUSSELL r Johnnie 91 WALKER is an R.A.F. Ace, who won the D.S.O. in 1942 and the D.F.C. in 1940. In our issue of Sept. 20 ice published this ...

... JENNY JDNES -SET IN COAL-MINE, COTTAGE AND ABBEY. CAROLE LYNNE as Dilvs in George Black's new musical shoic Jenny Jones' at the London Hippodrome. 44 An Episode in Havannah speciality dancer TOMMY LINDEN and f/ie Corps de Ballet in the operetta set in Nelson's day. Dilys and Penry as the lovers in An Episode in Havannah CAROLE LYNNE and RONALD MILLAR. 44 The Story of St. Ceiriog spectacular ...

... c (Pin=up r^/irl. )/a 10. (SMhe'ffyilkams. Beautiful swimming champion ESTHER WILLIAMS heads the spectacular Water Ballet, featured in M.-G.-M.ys new Technicolor production, Bathing Beauty and appears in some decorative bathing, diving and swimming sequences. Red Skelton stars in the picture, and Harry James and his band add to its attractions. The film, which is showing at the Empire, ...

... royalty, leaders, heroes and ROMANCE: PRINCESS ELIZABETH made her first public speech in Scotland and her first public appearance alone when she received purses in Edinburgh for various good causes. When MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL arrived home from Quebec with MRS. CHURCHILL they uere met at the station by two of their daughters. Here they are with the youngest, SUBALTERN MARY CHURCHILL, A.T.S. ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. ALTHOUGH Hollywood, for all its ex perience, has not yet found the Philosopher's Stone of picture-making, there is one type of film with which it rarely goes wrong. When it comes to murder in a big way, the sheer, hard melodrama of vice, then Hollywood knows exactly what to do with it. That is why DOUBLE INDEMNITY (Plaza), for all its nastiness, is one of the best made ...

... - REJECTING their suggestion of a face-saving mock battle, twenty-four- year-old LIEUT. S. W. MAGILL, of Ashtabula, Ohio, was mainly responsible for the surrender of 20,000 Germans to twenty-four American soldiers near Orleans. The Nazis were well armed, and had made efforts to join up with German forces in the north of France, but constant harrying by Allied troops and aircraft forced their ...

... FABRE'S INSECT WORLD TO ROUSSEL MUSIC: SADLER'S WELLS BALLET, LE FESTIN DE L'ARAIGNEE. The insects dance merrily unaicare of the dangerous proximity of the Spider's web. The Spider (CELIA FRANCA) gloats over the Praying Mantises (GORDON HAMILTON and RAY POWELL) caught in her eh. N.B. A Coloured plate is inserted in this issue. THE SADLER'S BALLET arranged to open their ten-weeks season at ...

... W.A.A.F. PLOTTERS FOR FIGHTER AND COASTAL COMMAND OPS. EVERY time a home-based Tem pest, Spitfire, Beaufighter or Typhoon becomes airborne, W.A.A.F. personnel play a great part in the success of their flight. Behind even- story of attack by aircraft of Coastal Command, of the vast necessary arrangements and detailed planning much is done by W.A.A.F. officers and airwomen. And at Bomber ...

... MARIENE-- CAMP-SHOWS STAR. A Here 's MARLENE DIETRICH, glamorous and vital as ever in her neat U.S. (Camp Shows) uniform. She 's just arrived in London from Hollyivood, via Iceland and Greenland, to entertain troops in Britain. She 's all for audiences of uniformed min, and says that they are specially enthusiastic over her old songs, such as The Boys in the Back Room, and altcays demand the ...

... battle-zone portrait painter- CATHLEEN MANN. MISS CATHLEEN MANN, othencise Lady Queensbeny, flew back List week from France where she has toured the battle-zones painting portraits of Allied commanders. Under difficult circumstances she made portraits of Generals Dempsey de Guingand, Laycock and heeler c, and of Air Marshal Conyngham. They icill be shown shortly at the Lefevre Galleries and ...

... ON THE AIR-- SUMNER WELLES. MR. SUMNER WELLES, who resigned his post as U.S. Under-Secretary of State just over a year ago, will become a radio neics commentator from the middle of this month. His fees, it is said, will be £375 for each broadcast for the first thirteen iveeks of his contract, £437 for the next thirteen, and thereafter £500. His book 44 The Time for Decision which was published ...