... . 1 BLO PICASSO, born in 1881, and still going strong as a modernist painter and sulptor, creates a new form, with the help of a bicycle seat and handle-bars. KASBEK, the artist's Afghan hound, enjoying a patch of sunshine on the studio floor. He is posed in front of some of Picasso's Cubist still-life groups. In the downstairs studio, where he teorks on his sculpture and keeps his collection ...

... DO A MY OF YOU Rf MEMBER LON DON LIKE THIS? FLASH-B \CK TO 1906-1 BEFORE TWO 1 VORLD W iRS With music-stands set up on the edge of the pavement a GERMAN BAND settles doxcn to give a street concert in a world unblessed by the B.B.C. Taking a HANSOM outside the Law Courts two men in conventional toppers and morning coats leap into the fastest type of conveyance then on the London streets. The ...

... cO!n=up cjir/: Ylo./2. QfYjariy Qff{arii7L MARY MARTIN, singing star of the screen and stage, planned to be a dancer before she ever thought of becomtng a vocalist. She 's red-headed, would like to be a blonde and photographs brunette. She made the song My Heart Belongs to Daddy famous all over the world and is one of the top-notchers among Paramount stars, but had to go the long way round to ...

... V Photographs by Dormer Cole, Perfect for a special occasion is this black crepe knee-length dinner frock from Fortnum and Mason, which is typical of their varied collection. The three-quarter sleeves are finished with gold and silver lacquer the skirt fullness gathered ato centre folds. Another example of the occasion frocks at Fortnum and Mason is on the right. The bertha and short sleeves ...

... . Liberation ceremonies on the Dalmatian island of Vis MARSHAL TITO is standing on the right tchile a Yugoslav commander addresses his troops. Right: MRS. MARSIKA LAN- I CASTER is the only woman I who knew the secret of the I prefabricated harbours which 1 enabled us to invade Normandy. For over a year she worked on scale cardboard models for the job. She is an artist, the wife of an officer. ...

... HIGH-DE-HIGH AND HIGHER: PARIS HATS AND HAIR. AND THE PARIS SHOES. Liberation fashions in Paris may well make you gasp and they re meant to, for Paris has set out to show the ivorld that she can make models out of nothing, and that soaring extravagance can be achieved with bits and pieces, and, in fact, out of whatever the milliner can lay her hands on in a time of general shortage. Height, ...

... WE TAKE OFF DUR HAT TO- BELITA, for kein5 an almost U tripliitian ancer, under water, on ice, and in air. In her classic tutu BELITA limbers up on the brink of the pool. The water shimmers like champagne in the sunlight as the dancer leaps. Holding her breath she submerges, gracefully sinking to the floor of the pool, still smiling. Over the rock she vaults against heavy water-pressure, as ...

... MEET THE ROYAL CANADIAN NAVY- -IN THEIR MUSICAL REVUE MEET THE NAVY. Seven pretty Canadian Wrens come out of a huddle during one of their precision-dance scenes. Backstage (I. to r.) WREN ALICE NELSON, of Montreal, cousin to the famous Canadian ace pilot, 44 ScretcbaU Beurling WREN BARBARA DAVIS, of Neicmarket, Ontario and WREN DOBSON, the wardrobe mistress. Attractive in rehearsal garb WRENS ...

... Jalexander's royal godson. Three generations of royal ladies are baby-worshipping in this group, taken after the christening of the younger son of the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester. It shows THE QUEEN, the DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER, holding PRINCE RICHARD ALEXANDER WALTER GEORGE, and QUEEN MARY; and, in front PRINCE MICHAEL and PRINCESS ALEXANDRA OF KENT. Archbishop the Lord Lang of Lambeth ...

... FAY COMPTON-- HOME FRONT HEROINE OF NO MEDALS. Go on-- what 's the verdict Captain G. Radcliffe R.N. (FREDERICK LEISTER), asked tn adiudicate on the cookine bv Lolly (PAULINE TENNANT), Nisei (RONALD FORTT), Paul (MICHAEL McNEILE), Helen (VALERIE WHITE) and Roddy (JOHN WITTY; J. to r.). You have a nerve, standing there firing questions at me like a schoolmaster Lolly Dacre (PAULINE TENNANT) ...