... ARNHEM CHIEF FOR BURMA- GENERAL BROWNING. LIEUT.-GENERAL F. A. M. BROWNING recently took leave of survivors of the heroic First Airborne Division which he commanded at Arnhem before taking up his new post in Burma, where he will be Chief of Staff to the Supreme Commander South-East Asia, Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten. This at-home group shows him with his novelist-wife, Daphne du Maurier, 44 ...

... STAR COMEDY PLAYWRIGHT AT HOME- TERENCE RATTIGAN. Over the mantelpiece in the lounge of TERENCE RATTIGAN'S Albany flat hangs a fine portrait of Charles I. Apparently schizophrenic he works on a script while answering the ever-ringing telephone. Fond of chess, Rattigan plays with ivory chessmen on a lacquer board. Successful playwright silhouetted in the light of a lamp built into a Chinese ...

... MRS. BROWNING'S I BUCCANEERING FILM. FRENCHMAN'S CREEK, Paramount's Technicolor version of Daphne du Manner's novel, 44 Frenchman's Creek, was due for its gala premiere at the Plaza on December 21 in aid of Stage Door Canteen. Miss Du Maurier is the wife of General F. A. M. Browning, newly-appointed Chief of Staff to Lord Louis Mountbatten and a photograph of her with her family appears on ...

... BROADWAY VENUS BY THE SEA -SIDE. PHOTOGRAPHS BY VANDAMM STUDIOS. MARY MARTIN, star of the Broadway musical success One Touch of Venus, was a dancer before she made her name as a singer. She 's also an outdoor girl, and spends as much time as she can, between her successful stage appearances, by the sea side. Our photographs show her about to dive, and playing a big fish with expert confidence. ...

... INTRODUCING SINCE YOU WENT AWAY. CLAUDETTE COLBERT modelled for the poster to ivhieh JOSEPH COTTEN is pointing in a scene from 44 Since You Went Away/9 David 0. Selznick's first film for four years. Based on the letters 'of Margaret Buell Wilder to her husband on service Selxnick wrote it usually only one scene ahead of the camera, did some directing, edited it doicn to three-hour length. ...

... THE NEW BACK -FLAP HIP POCKETS An entirely new look is given to these tailored town coats by the back-flaps over the hip line which disguise roomy pockets. Both are Spectator models. On the left, red velour cloth has been uped to make a coat which buttons high in the front. On the right, black wool corduroy is given a feminine look by small bow ties which fasten the coat down the centre front ...

... GREER GARSON AS AN AMERICAN MATRIARCH: MRS. PARKINGTON --SUPREME IN AGE AND YOUTH. TVTRS. PARKINGTON is M.-G.-M/s film ver sion of Louis Bromfield's best-seller novel, the epic story of a fabulously rich, fantastically famous old woman, worldly and in domitable. Susie Parking- ton (GREER GARSON) first appears, at the age of seventeen, as the daughter of a boarding-house keeper at Leaping ...

... WIPE AND DAUGHTER OF THE BRITISH G.O.C. IN GREECE. MRS. RONALD MACKENZIE SCOBIE and MISS JANE SCOBIE are the wife and daughter of Major-General (Acting Lieut.-General Ronald MacKenzie Scobie, C.B., C.B.E., M.C., the British General Officer Commanding in Greece, who has to carry out the trying and difficult work of restoring order in Athens. In his message to the Greek people on December 1, ...

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... Colette is a pure wool jacket hand- woven by the Loom Art Com pany in all kinds of attractive colour com binations. This one is yellow with blue stripes it has a well-tailored rever collar and buttons high, £8 17s. Id. From Harrods. Angora has been used to make this young-looking pull over the cosiest thing imagin able. It is one of a collection of boldly-striped jumpers at Mar shall and ...

... pPin-up P/irl: Ylo. 15. pBet/i Q)pan. BETH DEAN, brilliant young U.S. dancer is said to have arrived, and to be America s outstanding premiere ballerina. She was educated in Europe, and that is all we know about her at the moment, except that her photogenic quality is really undeniable, and that, poised sur la pointe she makes an admirable pin-up girl in fact, she is Just the Thing, as 44 The ...

... HOW GINGER MADE A G.l.'s DREAM COME TRUE! THE HAPPY WARRIOR AT A ONE-MAN PARTY. If I'm dreaming, go away and lemme sleep PRIVATE FARNSWORTH danced irith r.HTT I WTM TAMS The conquering hero straight from the wars, relaxed for a while on a sofa and listened to the girls softly singing. He didn't struggle much when the girls ga d heaved him into the swimming-pool On the terrace they played a ...